Unravelling the Narratives and Politics of Belonging to Place

摘要

Mike Savage's empirically rich and theoretically insightful paper expands upon the earlier formulation of the concept of "elective belonging" in Globalization and Belonging (Savage, Bagnall & Longhurst 2005). As he says in the paper, this narrative of belonging to place was one of two he and colleagues identified in four middle-class areas in Greater Manchester, the other being that of "nostalgia". The latter narrative, one of decline of community, is very much the subaltern narrative, one that as he says was only a minority view both amongst his earlier and more recent interviewees.