Inequality and Uncertainty by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789813291621
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Methods

This paper draws on empirical data from a study of youth’s perceptions of their lives, their neighbourhoods and deviance conducted for the Bezirksamt (Blokland and Serbedzija 2018). From November 2017 to June 2018, we conducted fieldwork in two inner city areas in Berlin. This paper focusses on one area, called Wellington Square here. Originally built in the eighteenth century, rebuilt after WW II, and redeveloped between 1968 and 1970, it has two 10-story buildings around a square and pedestrian area with shops, near an abandoned parking garage and greenspaces serving as courtyards of the flats. The privately owned, publicly accessible green spaces were not directly linked to street-level windows and entrances and hardly served as through-ways.

Our fieldwork combined (participant) observations (field notes) and individual and group interviews. We spent much time on the street and visited youth clubs and resident meetings and the Quartiersmanagement (QM, Neighbourhood Management1). We recorded and transcribed interviews with 37 young, mostly male residents of Arabic, Turkish or South-East-European descent. We interviewed a higher police officer and a state’s child & family services coordinator, had conversations with youth workers, and organised two round tables with various professionals.

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