Boaters of London

Alternative Living on the Water

Ben Bowles (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-494-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

London and the Southeast of England is home to an alternative community of people called 'boaters': individuals and families who live on narrowboats, cruisers and barges, along a network of canals and rivers. Many of these people move from place to place every two weeks due to mooring rules and form itinerant communities in the heart of some of the UK’s most built-up and expensive urban spaces. Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling population has on the state.

Ben Bowles is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. He is also Course Lecturer at Fordham University, London Campus, and Research Fellow at the Open University's Centre for Policing Research and Learning.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Methodology and Ethics

Chapter 2. The Waterways: A Historical and Legal Framework

Chapter 3. Becoming a Boater: Developing Skills Within a Community of Practice

Chapter 4. Dwelling and Temporality

Chapter 5. Economic, Livelihood and Consumption

Chapter 6. Community

Chapter 7. ‘A Very English Kind of Anarchism’: Boaters as Citizens Within the State

Chapter 8. Surveillance and Security

Chapter 9. Political (Dis)Organisation

Conclusion: Messing about in Boats

Glossary and Acronyms

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-80539-494-0 / 1805394940
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-494-5 / 9781805394945
Zustand	Neuware