Written with Alessandra Buonfino for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
"The social institutions of family, identity and a tightly-bounded lifeworld once provided firm grounds for neighbouring, helping people to come to know one another and providing the basis of mutual trust. The secondary associations that sprang up in their wake, from gardening to book clubs, often failed to sustain themselves given competitive pressures from private life and the state. However, given strong and possibly increasing public interest in the very local level, it is worth revisiting what social architecture might help support neighbouring and collective action in the new environment of weak ties, individualism and competitive demands on time."
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