Overview
Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the country and indeed the contemporary world. This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.
Full Product Details
Author: Sylvie Tissot ,
David Broder ,
Catherine Romatowski
Publisher: Verso Books
Imprint: Verso Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.594kg
ISBN: 9781781687925
ISBN 10: 1781687927
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 June 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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 neighborhood. -- 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
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 neighborhood. -- 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
Author Information
Sylvie Tissot (born in 1971) is a French sociologist and feminist activist. She teaches Political Science at the Université de Vincennes-Saint Denis-Paris VIII. .
