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Power, Glamour and Angst

Inside Australia's Elite Neighbourhoods

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Ilan Wiesel

    1. School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Taps into the public fascination with wealth and power, offering an intimate peek into the inner-circles of Australian high-society
  • Addresses an empirical and conceptual blind spot in the way we think about and understand cities
  • Strong multi-site neighbourhood-level empirical basis sets this work aside from exisiting scholarship in this area
  • Offers in-depth comprehensive analysis of specific case studies
  • Written in an accessible and engaging style which will appeal to scholars, student and the general public alike

Part of the book series: The Contemporary City (TCONTCI)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Polarisation

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 1-46

  3. Prestige

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 47-71

  4. Networks

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 73-91

  5. Diversity

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 93-107

  6. Mobilisations

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 109-127

  7. Densification

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 129-145

  8. Thoroughfare

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 147-166

  9. Contradictions

    • Ilan Wiesel
    Pages 167-181

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 183-202
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About this book

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods – Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful citizens. The book explores how living in these neighbourhoods shapes the lifestyles, social networks and status of Australia’s elites. The book explores the everyday rituals through which residents produce their neighbourhood's status. It maps residents’ social networks and exposes the local institutions – including schools and sports or social clubs – in which access to such high-powered networks is granted or withheld. Power, Glamour and Angst examines how the collective social and cultural capitals of elite neighbourhoods are mobilised towards varied objectives, from initiation of business connections and opportunities, through to opposition against unwanted development or traffic, both sources of ongoing angst. Deeply conservative and resistant to change at their core, despite their wealth and power these communities have not always been successful in fully repressing external pressures. In the 21st century Australian city, even elite neighbourhoods must learn to adapt to population growth, urban densification and increased cultural diversity.

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“This is a well-researched, very well written and insightful book. The data is unique and will be of very high value to the urban studies community.” (Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney, Australia)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Ilan Wiesel

About the author

Dr Ilan Wiesel is a lecturer in urban geography at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously he worked as a senior research fellow at the City Futures Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia (2009-2016). Ilan's research interest is in social diversity and inequality in cities, with a particular focus on the role of housing and neighbourhood dynamics in the production of social privilege and disadvantage, and in 2014 he was awarded an ARC DECRA fellowship to study the initiation, preservation and mobilisation of privilege in elite neighbourhoods. Ilan publishes regularly in leading international journals in the fields of housing and urban studies.

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