Gentrification: a Working-Class Perspective

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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 explori…

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Title Statements

Full title :Gentrification : a Working-Class Perspective.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication:Farnham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781472418517, 1472418514, 9781315584348, 1315584344
oclc:ocn889675779
LC Classification:HN400.S6 P37 2014
Dewey Decimal:305.50941

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.

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Arbeiterklasse Classes sociales -- Grande-Bretagne Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) -- Grande-… Gentrification Gentrification -- Great Britain Gentrifizierung Great Britain Grossbritannien Group identity Group identity -- Great Britain Gruppenidentität Identité collective -- Grande-Bretagne Nachbarschaft Neighborhoods Neighborhoods -- Great Britain Social classes Social classes -- Great Britain SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies Working class