Gentrifications: Views from Europe

Offering an original discussion of the gentrification phenomenon in Europe, this book provides new theoretical insights into classical works on the subject. Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate its ‘DNA’, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.

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Gentrifications: Views from Europe

Offering an original discussion of the gentrification phenomenon in Europe, this book provides new theoretical insights into classical works on the subject. Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate its ‘DNA’, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.

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Gentrifications: Views from Europe

Gentrifications: Views from Europe

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Offering an original discussion of the gentrification phenomenon in Europe, this book provides new theoretical insights into classical works on the subject. Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate its ‘DNA’, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781800736597
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/14/2022
Series: Anthropology of Europe , #7
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 266
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Marie Chabrol is a lecturer in the department of geography of the University of Picardy Jules Verne, in Amiens (France), and a member of the Habiter le Monde research unit.


Anaïs Collet is a lecturer in the faculty of social sciences of the University of Strasbourg (France) and a member of the SAGE research unit (CNRS).


Matthieu Giroud was a lecturer in the department of geography of Paris-Est University (France) and a member of the ACP (Analyse Comparée des Pouvoirs) research unit.


Lydie Launay is a lecturer in the department of sociology of the Institut National Universitaire Jean-François Champollion, in Albi (France), and a member of the LISST research unit (CNRS).

Max Rousseau is a politist and geographer at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD; French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development).

Hovig Ter Minassian is a lecturer in the department of geography of the University of Tours (France), and a member of the CITERES research unit (CNRS).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Gentrification to Gentrifications

Part I: Structures

Chapter 1. From Industry to Real Estate: Creating the Gentrification Supply
Chapter 2. The Existing Built Environment: How Urban Morphologies Inform Gentrification ‘Potentials’
Chapter 3. On the Diversity of Gentrifers: Structural Effects and Contextual Effects

Part II: Policies

Chapter 4. Are Pro-Gentrification Policies Real? An Evidence-Based Inquiry
Chapter 5. Gentrification: A Matter of Images and Representations
Chapter 6. Moving Upmarket: a Neoliberal Strategy of Urban (Re)Development

Part III: Inhabitants

Chapter 7. Gentrification, Pauperization, Immigration: One Process May Hide Another
Chapter 8. Popular Continuities in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods: The Presences and Practices of Nonresidents
Chapter 9. R Residing in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood: The Importance of Trajectories and Mobilities
Chapter 10. Negotiating Diversity in Daily Life. Controlled Neighbourly Relations and School Choices

Conclusion

Index

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