Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End - Hardcover

Tissot, Sylvie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781687927 ISBN 13: 9781781687925

Verlag: Verso Books, 2015

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"Sylvie Tissot-a hip, brilliant, de Toqueville of the post-'68 left-casts a fair but jaundiced eye on America's plump underbelly of tolerant privilege and its flattened idea of diversity. A truly memorable account of gentrification and its discontents." Michael Sorkin "A penetrating analysis of the social practices and cultural strategies that turn slum neighborhoods into safe spaces for the rising elite. It's an ethnography of Boston, but it sheds light on urban dynamics throughout the world." Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo and Heat Wave "A work of creativity and imagination that goes beyond the well-known gentrification arguments that have proliferated of late. A sure winner." Michele Lamont, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University "Because of the quality of the ethnographic enquiry and the relevance of the issues raised, this approach to gentrification allows Tissot to go beyond simplistic accounts of the sociological transformations of a neighbourhood." Nonfiction.fr "The rich material gathered during in-depth field enquiries and the invaluable archives collected from the inhabitants will win the skeptics over. A significant contribution to the debate surrounding progressive upper class culture." La vie des idees.fr "Gentrification has been the object of a very rich sociological literature. This book is an original contribution to the debate. Tissot is a master in the art of sailing in the murky waters of progressive discourses, and she does so without a pinch of salt." L Humanite "Good Neighbors" is a solid and fruitful contribution to current debates around urban and social coexistence." Le Mouvement Social "A fascinating analysis of exclusion, lack of self-awareness and conflicting values." Next City "Good Neighbors powerfully demonstrates how gentrifiers often fixate on the old (homes) and the marginally political (greenmarkets) so that they do not have to think about the displacement involved in neighborhood change and their own role in it." Public Books "What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not" Los Angeles Review of Books "Hershfang is 'very critical of the book', specifically that Tissot made no reference to children, whom he called the 'glue' and the 'salvation' of the neighborhood." Southend News "A powerful contribution to the rising tide of scholarship on global gentrification. It will make you think twice the next time you hear a neighbourhood celebrated as 'vibrant'." - Thomas Meaney, Times Literary Supplement "Tissot's anthropological approach yields a richness of detail about gentrifiers perhaps never equalled in previous studies." - Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs

Reseña del editor:

Cities are the prime locus of class conflict today. Often described as gentrification, the material bases and concrete manifestations of this new form of social violence have too often gone uncharted, however. Through a historical and ethnographical account of the changing face of one former working-class neighborhood in Boston, Good Neighbors provides fascinating insights into how the urban elites have reshaped the neighborhood they now inhabit. Investigating the mix of inclusion and exclusion that characterizes elite culture, Tissot demonstrates that while new mixed demographics emerged and coexistence alongside "different" populations - whether for their income, their ethnic origins, or their sexual orientation - have become a prized quality, social barriers have not in any sense been erased, indeed quite the contrary.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781687927
• ISBN 13: 9781781687925
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288