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The Challenges of Polarisation: Lessons for (Re-)Politicising Inequality across Four English Towns

Journal
Affective Polarisation
Type
book-chapter
Date Issued
2023-09-25
Author(s)
Insa Lee Koch  
;
Mark Fransham
;
Sarah Cant
;
Jill Ebrey
;
Luna Glucksberg
;
Mike Savage
DOI
10.1332/policypress/9781529222265.003.0005
Abstract
<p>This chapter examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place ‘on the ground’. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of ‘elite-based’ polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and ‘poverty-based’ polarisation (in Margate and Oldham). Yet there are also common features. Across the towns, marginalised communities express a sense of local belonging. But tensions between social groups also remain strong and all towns are marked by a weak or ‘squeezed middle’. We argue that the weakness of intermediary institutions, including but not limited to the ‘missing middle’, and capable of bridging gaps between various social groups, provides a major insight into both the obstacles to, and potential solutions for, re-politicising inequality today.</p>
Publisher
Policy Press
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/123992
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