scholarly journals Hipsters on Our High Streets: Consuming the Gentrification Frontier

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Hubbard
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Residential Landscapes ◽  
Consumption Choices ◽  
Coffee Shops ◽  
Vintage Clothing ◽  
Deprived Areas

Gentrification involves the displacement of working class populations, a phenomena most obviously manifest in the transformation of residential landscapes. But this is also palpable in the changes visible on many shopping streets, with locally-oriented stores serving poorer populations and ethnic minorities being replaced by ‘hipster’ stores such as ‘real coffee’ shops, vintage clothing stores and bars serving microbrews. These stores have been taken as a sign that the fortunes of struggling shopping streets are improving, with the new outlets often depicted as offering a better range of healthy, green and ‘authentic’ consumption choices than the shops they displace. However, this paper argues that we need to resist this form of retail change given it typically represents the first stage of a more thoroughgoing retail gentrification process, remaining suspicious of forms of hipster consumption which, while aesthetically ‘improving’ local shopping streets in deprived areas, actually encourage the colonisation of neighbourhoods by the more affluent.

scholarly journals COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in an ethnically diverse community: descriptive findings from the Born in Bradford study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Josie Dickerson ◽  
Bridget Lockyer ◽  
Rachael H. Moss ◽  
Charlotte Endacott ◽  
Brian Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Born In Bradford ◽  
Diverse Community ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Deprived Areas

Background: The roll out of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are underway in the UK, and ensuring good uptake in vulnerable communities will be critical to reducing hospital admissions and deaths. There is emerging evidence that vaccine hesitancy is higher in ethnic minorities and deprived areas, and that this may be caused by distrust and misinformation in the community.  This study aims to understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in an ethnically diverse and deprived population of Bradford through the Born in Bradford (BiB) research programme. Methods: Surveys were sent to parents in BiB who had taken part in a previous Covid-19 survey (n=1727). Cross tabulations explored variation by ethnicity and deprivation. Answers to a question asking the main reason for hesitancy was analysed using thematic analysis. Results: 535 (31%) of those invited between 29 th October-9 th December 2020 participated. 48% were White British, 37% Pakistani heritage and 15% from other ethnicities; 46% were from the most deprived quintile of the Index of Multiple Deprivation. 29% of respondents do want a vaccine, 10% do not. The majority had not thought about it (29%) or were unsure (30%). Vaccine hesitancy differed by ethnicity and deprivation: 43% (95% CIs: 37-54%) of White British and 60% (35-81%) in the least deprived areas do want a vaccine, compared to 13% (9-19%) of Pakistani heritage and 20% (15-26%) in the most deprived areas. Reasons for not wanting a vaccine were commonly explained by confusion and distrust which was linked to exposure to misinformation. Conclusions: There is a risk of unequitable roll out of the vaccination programme in the UK with higher vaccine hesitancy in ethnic minorities and those living in deprived areas. There is an urgent need to tackle misinformation that is leading to uncertainty and confusion about the vaccines.

scholarly journals Fueling the Populist Divide: Nativist and Cosmopolitan Preferences for Representation at the Elite and Mass Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosie Campbell ◽  
Oliver Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Mass Level ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

AbstractAlthough populist leaders often employ an anti-elite discourse which presents the elite as unable or unwilling to represent ordinary citizens, we know very little about who elites actually think should be represented, or how this differs, if at, all from what ordinary citizens want. In this article we find that there is a considerable difference between the groups that voters want to see represented in parliament and those which political elites want to see represented. In particular, we find that political elites tend to hold far more ‘cosmopolitan’ preferences than ordinary voters, and prioritize the representation of greater diversity in parliament based on the groups politicised by the new social movements and identity politics of the 60s and 70s, such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBT and the disabled. By contrast, voters more often hold nativist preferences than political elites and more often prioritize the representation of groups such as the working class, and white local people. Moreover, British voters who hold nativist preferences of political representation are more likely to be politically alienated and more likely to support Brexit.

scholarly journals COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in an ethnically diverse community: descriptive findings from the Born in Bradford study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Josie Dickerson ◽  
Bridget Lockyer ◽  
Rachael H. Moss ◽  
Charlotte Endacott ◽  
Brian Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Born In Bradford ◽  
Diverse Community ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Deprived Areas

Background: The roll out of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are now underway in the UK, and ensuring good uptake in vulnerable communities will be critical to reducing hospital admissions and deaths. There is emerging evidence that vaccine hesitancy is higher in ethnic minorities and deprived areas, and that this may be caused by misinformation in the community.  This study aims to understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in an ethnically diverse and deprived population. Methods: Questionnaire surveys were sent to parents in the Born in Bradford study. Cross tabulations explored variation by ethnicity and deprivation. Text from open-ended questions was analysed using thematic analysis. Results: 535 (31%) of 1727 invited between 29th October-9th December 2020 participated in the study. 154 (29%) of respondents do want a vaccine, 53 (10%) do not. The majority had not thought about it (N=154, 29%) or were unsure (N=161, 30%). Vaccine hesitancy differed significantly by ethnicity and deprivation: 43% (95% CIs: 37-54%) of White British and 60% (35-81%) in the least deprived areas do want a vaccine, compared to 13% (9-19%) of Pakistani heritage and 20% (15-26%) in the most deprived areas. Those that distrusted the NHS were more likely to not want a vaccine (30%, 15-50%).  Reasons for not wanting a vaccine were commonly explained by confusion and distrust caused by prevalent misinformation. Conclusions: There is a much higher level of vaccine hesitancy in ethnic minorities, those living in deprived areas and those that distrust the NHS. There is an urgent need to tackle the overwhelming misinformation about COVID-19 that is leading to this uncertainty and confusion about the vaccines. If not addressed there is a high risk of unequitable roll out of the vaccination programme in the UK.

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