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Public Intimacy in Neighbour Relationships and Complaints

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  • Elizabeth Stokoe

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This paper examines neighbour relationships as an example of non-familial intimacy. It focuses on the way disputes between neighbours often hinge on notions of obtrusive public intimacy, in which the sights and sounds of normatively private domestic lives become sources of complaint. The analyses are based on approximately 150 hours of naturally-occurring interaction with neighbours including telephone calls to mediation centres, environmental health departments and anti-social behaviour units, neighbour mediation interviews, police-suspect interrogations in neighbour crime, and neighbour issues broadcast on television and radio. It was found that while the neighbours maintain good relations at the edges of private spaces, the physical arrangements of domestic properties, with their shared boundaries, means that personal information can be transmitted and observed as a routine matter of course. Disputes often have their basis in the illegitimate breach of boundaries, and in the unwanted and unavoidable receipt of the sights and sounds of other people's intimate lives.

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  • Elizabeth Stokoe, 2006. "Public Intimacy in Neighbour Relationships and Complaints," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 11(3), pages 137-157, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:11:y:2006:i:3:p:137-157
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1383
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    1. Lynda Cheshire & Robin Fitzgerald & Yan Liu, 2019. "Neighbourhood change and neighbour complaints: How gentrification and densification influence the prevalence of problems between neighbours," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(6), pages 1093-1112, May.
    2. Elizabeth Stokoe, 2013. "Applying findings and creating impact from conversation analytic studies of gender and communication," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 34(3), pages 537-552, August.
    3. Median Mutiara, 2018. "Noise Complaints between Japanese Neighbors and Migrants in Rural Japan: From the Perspectives of Noisemakers," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-25, December.
    4. Hannu Ruonavaara, 2022. "The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 27(2), pages 379-395, June.
    5. Antti Kouvo & Risto Haverinen, 2017. "Dealing with disturbances: Intervention and adaptation in Finnish neighbourhoods," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(16), pages 3755-3771, December.

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