Between the city and the rural: Negotiating place and identity in a Danish suburban housing area
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Between the city and the rural : Negotiating place and identity in a Danish suburban housing area. / Oldrup, Helene Hjorth.
I: Housing, Theory and Society, Bind 27, Nr. 1, 2010, s. 42-63.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Between the city and the rural
T2 - Negotiating place and identity in a Danish suburban housing area
AU - Oldrup, Helene Hjorth
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Usually, Danish suburban history is told as a journey towards light, airy, greenspaces. However, suburban housing areas can be seen in the context of processes of urbanization,where the boundary between urban and rural is dissolving. What does this mean for residentialidentities? This article explores residential identities in a new housing area in the metropolitanregion of greater Copenhagen in this context, based on a qualitative study drawing on qualitativeinterviews and photos taken by residents. It is argued that identity should be understood throughnotions of reflexive identity, as well as the concepts of elective belonging and the aesthetic. In aqualitative study with residents, it is shown how multiple and varied practices and stories aregenerated. In residents’ articulation of identity in terms of centre-periphery relations, this was reconfigurednot as a linear relationship of a move from urban to non-urban areas (although it wasalso expressed as this), but as generating various practices. Residents’ experiences andnegotiations emerged under the following themes: between the aesthetic and the pragmatic, beingconnected or suburban, and simulated or authentic nature. The article also shows that not allresidents use such reflexivity, suggesting that it may be unevenly distributed.
AB - Usually, Danish suburban history is told as a journey towards light, airy, greenspaces. However, suburban housing areas can be seen in the context of processes of urbanization,where the boundary between urban and rural is dissolving. What does this mean for residentialidentities? This article explores residential identities in a new housing area in the metropolitanregion of greater Copenhagen in this context, based on a qualitative study drawing on qualitativeinterviews and photos taken by residents. It is argued that identity should be understood throughnotions of reflexive identity, as well as the concepts of elective belonging and the aesthetic. In aqualitative study with residents, it is shown how multiple and varied practices and stories aregenerated. In residents’ articulation of identity in terms of centre-periphery relations, this was reconfigurednot as a linear relationship of a move from urban to non-urban areas (although it wasalso expressed as this), but as generating various practices. Residents’ experiences andnegotiations emerged under the following themes: between the aesthetic and the pragmatic, beingconnected or suburban, and simulated or authentic nature. The article also shows that not allresidents use such reflexivity, suggesting that it may be unevenly distributed.
U2 - 10.1080/14036090802476622
DO - 10.1080/14036090802476622
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 42
EP - 63
JO - Housing, Theory and Society
JF - Housing, Theory and Society
SN - 1403-6096
IS - 1
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