ABSTRACT

This article discusses neighboring practices across difference in Avondale, a diverse and changing neighbourhood in Auckland, New Zealand. Based on a qualitative study of urban encounters, we draw attention to modes of coexistence in the parochial realm and, more specifically, to encounters with neighbors as an under-researched site of living with difference in cities. In Avondale, adherence to tacit norms of pragmatic, light-touch neighboring is crucial to residents’ sense of convivial coexistence and negotiating such rules is regularly inflected with ‘difference’. Our findings show that various facets of diversity are salient in enacting neighbourliness. However, class-based differences associated with a recent influx of higher-income earners threw difference into stark relief because newcomers were perceived as deliberately breaching codes of conduct. Our findings demonstrate the importance of accounting for the salience of multiple facets of difference and for conditions of demographic change in developing an understanding of the complexities of neighboring.

摘要

本文讨论了新西兰奥克兰一个多样化且不断变化的社区 Avondale 的不同做法。基于对城市相遇的定性研究，我们提请注意狭隘领域的共存模式，更具体地说，将注意力集中在与邻居的相遇，作为一个研究不足的城市差异生活场所。在埃文代尔，坚持务实、轻松邻里的默契规范对于居民的欢乐共处感至关重要，而就此类规则进行谈判时经常会出现“差异”。我们的研究结果表明，多样性的各个方面在制定邻里关系方面都很突出。然而，与最近高收入者涌入相关的基于阶级的差异使差异显着缓解，因为新移民被视为故意违反行为准则。我们的研究结果表明，考虑到差异的多个方面的显着性和人口变化的条件，在发展对邻近地区复杂性的理解方面的重要性。