Abstract
The discussion paper is presented to be read in three simultaneous and different modalities. At one level, it is first a study of a repeat study from 1957 and 2006, examining the disconnection between history and methodology in locating the British Bangladeshi communities’ past social story in today’s shifting landscape. At another level it intervenes; asserting globalization, as spatial-temporal phenomena under a neo liberal consensus, has produced an uneven distribution of common diversity. Permeating into every facet of social life, the construct of community and constructions of belongingness, finally apprehending the pitfalls of research without direct engagement of subjects.
Highlights
This discussion paper is a critical review of the case study titled “The New East End” carried out by the authors Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron, and Michael Young, published in 2006
What Dench, Gavron, and Young’s case study falls short in is acknowledging that Castells (1991) conception of time and space succinctly points to is that this transformation in both time and space is what has changed social relations between the White working class and the immigrant Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets
Globalization under a neo liberal consensus has further distributed more of the world’s wealth to those who are already wealthy with fewer of the benefits going to the poor in what could be described as a later day extension of the bourgeoisie mode of production
Summary
This discussion paper is a critical review of the case study titled “The New East End” carried out by the authors Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron, and Michael Young, published in 2006. Underscoring the disconnection between the methodology deployed in framing the Sylheti-speaking British Bangladeshis of the east London borough of Tower Hamlets under analysis and argues spatial-temporal changes have altered the authors’ findings on the cognitive aspects of belongingness and identity construction within the framework of globalization.
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