Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138546622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 236 str.

Kirsteen Paton

Opis

This book 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.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Restructuring theory; Restructuring class identity; Elective belonging and fixity to place; Gentrifying working-class subjects: participating in consumer citizenship; The paradox of gentrification: displacing the working-class subject; Conclusions: reinvigorating urban class analysis; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Kirsteen Paton is lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK.