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LISBONDS - Neighbouring practices, meanings and contexts in Greater Lisbon

Researcher in Charge: João Pedro Silva Nunes
Reference: PTDC/SOC-SOC/30305/2017
Team: Henrique Chaves
Inês Vieira
Laura Almodovar
Luís Baptista
Patrícia Pereira
Researchers not belonging to CICS.NOVA: Rita Raposo (SOCIUS-ISEG); Anselmo Amílcar (IGOT-UL); Marta Martins (DINÂMIACET-IUL)
Applicant Entity:

NOVA FCSH: Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciência Sociais da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CICS.NOVA)
Funding Entity:

FCT (Projetos I&D)
Keywords: Neighbouring; social bonds; Social Exchanges; Urban context.
Goals:

This project is about neighbouring practices, meanings and contexts, understood as key-aspects to analyse the ways by which individuals and households relate to local social space and face the factors that structure the urban condition. Taking neighbouring sociologically is a way to understand how individuals and social groups deal with generalized mobility, commuting, labour and housing markets segmentations, women's employment, and social networks and kin's spatial dispersion, which hollowed out traditional neighbouring contexts. Researching neighbouring is then a way of knowing how residents practically and symbolically use their neighbourhoods, why they engage or not in different and contrasting relationships, when great cities witness increased population change and sharped social differentiation and segmentation. Neighbouring practices, meanings and contexts reveal tensions that pervade local social space. For occurring around the boundaries of individuals and households' private realm, neighbouring practices require the individuals to manage the arising tensions that physical proximity and social distance engender.
Starting Date: 2018
Ending Date: 2021