Category Archives: Allgemein

Three months ago, at the beginning of November 2021, I started with this fieldwork. Even though I have yet to write up quite a few blog articles about my amazing interview partners, I thought it might be interesting to publish some interim statistics. So far, I have interviewed 34 Londoners, exactly 17 women and 17Continue reading “Three months of fieldwork: an overview”

Hidden away in a quiet backstreet off Aldgate East with its office blocks, there’s Abdul’s barber shop ‘Abdul Scissorhands’. I met him during his quiet hours, after lunch and before knocking-off time. Abdul distinguishes between ‘nice and calm’ London accents and ‘agressive and angry’ ones, the former belonging to ‘posh people’ and the latter toContinue reading “Abdul Scissorhands in Aldgate East”

Yesterday, I went to see Andy on the Cressingham Gardens estate in Tulse Hill, SW2, which – as he informed me – is not the same as Brixton, SW9. Andy is a born and bred South-west Londoner: born in Wimbledon and raised in Clapham Junction. ‘It makes me quite upset when people call me aContinue reading “Tulse Hill is not Brixton”