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Networks and Neighbourhoods: Household, Community and Sovereignty in the Global Economy

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  • Stephen E. Little

    (Knowledge Management, The Open University Business School, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK, s.e.little@open.ac.uk)

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New forms of information and communication technology are linking the household to an increasingly complex public realm of formal and informal, spatial and non-spatial relationships. Increasingly, households in both 'advanced' and 'developing' regions are simultaneously sites of production and consumption, exhibiting characteristics of both pre- and post-industrial societies. A simplistic division between public and private realms is being superseded by a complex 'layering' through class and gender relations. It is not just the unskilled or elite sectors of the labour market who are obliged to trade their labour across regional and national boundaries (whether through physical migration or through communication networks). Middle-range players are finding themselves competing in a globalised arena of outsourcing, downsizing and home-based self-employment contracting. Melvin Webber's view of 'community without propinquity' is used to examine some of the social, political and economic implications of this situation for intelligent urban planning.

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  • Stephen E. Little, 2000. "Networks and Neighbourhoods: Household, Community and Sovereignty in the Global Economy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 37(10), pages 1813-1825, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:37:y:2000:i:10:p:1813-1825
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980020080431
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