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Gentrification : A Working-Class Perspective.

Av: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Farnham : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2014Beskrivning: 1 online resource (236 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472418517
Ämnen: Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 307.1416
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Innehåll:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Restructuring Theory -- 2 Restructuring Class Identity -- 3 Elective Belonging and Fixity to Place -- 4 Gentrifying Working-Class Subjects: Participating in Consumer Citizenship -- 5 The Paradox of Gentrification: Displacing the Working-Class Subject -- Conclusions: Reinvigorating Urban Class Analysis -- Appendix: Cases of Gentrification -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sammanfattning: Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem of 'Broken Britain'. Gentrification is often presented to a moral and market antidote to such urban ills: deeply institutionalised as regeneration and targeted at areas which have suffered from disinvestment or are defined by 'lack'. Gentrification is no longer a peripheral neighbourhood process: it is policy; it is widespread; it is everyday. Yet comparative to this depth and breadth, we know little about what it is like to live with gentrification at the everyday level. Sociological studies have focused on lifestyles of the middle classes and the working-class experience is either omitted or they are assumed to be victims. Hitherto, this is all that has been offered. This book engages with these issues and reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of working-class residents. This ethnography of everyday working-class neighbourhood life in the UK serves to challenge denigrated depictions which are used to justify the use of gentrification-based restructuring. By exploring the relationship between urban processes and working-class communities via gentrification, it reveals the 'hidden rewards' as well as the 'hidden injuries' of class in post-industrial neighbourhoods. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive 'sociology of gentrification', revealing not only how gentrification leads to the displacement of the working class in physical terms but how it isactively used within urban policy to culturally displace the working-class subject and traditional.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Restructuring Theory -- 2 Restructuring Class Identity -- 3 Elective Belonging and Fixity to Place -- 4 Gentrifying Working-Class Subjects: Participating in Consumer Citizenship -- 5 The Paradox of Gentrification: Displacing the Working-Class Subject -- Conclusions: Reinvigorating Urban Class Analysis -- Appendix: Cases of Gentrification -- Bibliography -- Index.

Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem of 'Broken Britain'. Gentrification is often presented to a moral and market antidote to such urban ills: deeply institutionalised as regeneration and targeted at areas which have suffered from disinvestment or are defined by 'lack'. Gentrification is no longer a peripheral neighbourhood process: it is policy; it is widespread; it is everyday. Yet comparative to this depth and breadth, we know little about what it is like to live with gentrification at the everyday level. Sociological studies have focused on lifestyles of the middle classes and the working-class experience is either omitted or they are assumed to be victims. Hitherto, this is all that has been offered. This book engages with these issues and reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of working-class residents. This ethnography of everyday working-class neighbourhood life in the UK serves to challenge denigrated depictions which are used to justify the use of gentrification-based restructuring. By exploring the relationship between urban processes and working-class communities via gentrification, it reveals the 'hidden rewards' as well as the 'hidden injuries' of class in post-industrial neighbourhoods. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive 'sociology of gentrification', revealing not only how gentrification leads to the displacement of the working class in physical terms but how it is

actively used within urban policy to culturally displace the working-class subject and traditional.

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