Inhabiting the impasse: Social exclusion through visible assemblage in neighborhood gentrification

Linz, Jess

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.06.023

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“…Although sometimes depicted as mired in endless debates about supply- versus demand-side explanations of land revaluation (Cartier, 2017), gentrification studies are arguably overcoming this intellectual impasse by embracing assemblage theories and exploring the role of the non-human in enhancing the affective and aesthetic qualities that add value to property (e.g. De Haan, 2018; Linz, 2017; Kern, 2015). One notable tradition here has been the identification of green or eco-gentrification, whereby environmental remediation and green place-making, either inadvertently or otherwise, creates enclaves of environmental privilege excluding lower income residents (Quastel, 2009).…”

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Animals and urban gentrification: Displacement and injustice in the trans-species city

Hubbard¹,

Brooks

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Urban gentrification debates are essentially anthropocentric, ignoring how the presence of animals at the gentrification frontier can promote or oppose capital accumulation. By way of corrective, this article reviews geographical work on the relations of human and non-human animals in gentrifying neighbourhoods, arguing for a trans-species perspective on urban gentrification that considers the different ways animals are caught up in gentrification struggles. Noting that gentrification sometimes involves the violent and unjust displacement of non-human animals, the article concludes by arguing that anti-gentrification discourse might usefully place more emphasis on the animal ‘right to the city’.

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Animals and urban gentrification: Displacement and injustice in the trans-species city

Hubbard¹,

Brooks

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…The articles dealing with the impacts of gentrification and regeneration on the local community within a single neighbourhood (Butcher, 2019;Butcher & Dickens, 2016;Linz, 2017;Paiva & Sánchez-Fuarros, 2021;Yarker, 2018) are complemented by: a more focused, comparative study of two cafes within a gentrifying neighbourhood (Kuruoğlu & Woodward, 2021); an analysis of atmospheric engineering performed by the architecture of commercial spaces (Kindynis, 2021); a study of atmospheres emerging in a neighbourhood under intensive construction (Marotta & Cummings, 2019); a study of the impacts of a city's metropolitan area expansion on a neighbourhood (Paiva, 2016); a study of the impacts of introducing private security policing in a crime-ridden neighbourhood (Mosselson, 2019). Additionally, I have decided to include a theoretical article (Andrews & Duff, 2020) which accurately complements the selected empirical studies by more explicitly emphasising the connection between spatial, territorialised atmospheric production and broader, non-material socioeconomic processes.…”

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Affective atmospheres of gentrification: Wellbeing amid neighbourhood change

Łojewska

2023

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The article aims to contribute to the gentrification debate by proposing a conceptual apparatus attuned to the study of how the everyday lived experience of neighbourhood change can have consequences for wellbeing. Accordingly, the concept of affective atmosphere, grounded within the non-representational theory, is proposed to capture nuances’ affective impact within shifting socio-material assemblages of local environments. A literature review was conducted to examine the ways in which the concept of affective atmosphere enhances the understanding of how changes in the socio-material configurations of space affect the wellbeing of local communities. The proposed framework captures the affective strain of gentrification as emerging within the specificities of socio-material constellations of local environments. Moreover, the advantage of the proposed framework was identified in its capacity to link particular manifestations of gentrification-related violence to overarching regularities of affective capitalism. The article urges for increased sensitivity to nuances of neighbourhood change, posing a potential threat to wellbeing even at the early stages of gentrification. Due to the decision to prioritise thoroughness of analysis over scale, the limitation of this article is its restrictive scope of research.

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“…More recently, Linz 51 and Addie & Fraser 52 have used Lauren Berlant's work -which is central to my analysis below -to think through place transformation; incidentally, both focus on Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (OTR) neighborhood. Addie and Fraser use Berlant's work to pose some critical questions about academic studies of gentrification and the tools brought to bear in doing so.…”

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Old Detroit, New Detroit: “Makers” and the impasse of place change

Marotta

2020

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In Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes an impasse as “what it feels like to be in the middle of a shift.” This paper mobilizes that notion of impasse to critically analyze the position of Detroit’s “maker” community against the background of a rapidly changing city. Makers, who might crudely be described as small craft-manufacturers, have found themselves entangled in an emergent narrative of place transition captured by the juxtapositional monikers of “Old Detroit” and “New Detroit.” The goal of this paper is to think through what gets taken up by these Old/New representations of Detroit – and what the shift between the two feels like – as described by makers. I interpret Old and New Detroit to be unique-but-inseparable place imaginaries; they are the representational bracketing around a transitional lifeworld in which the optimism makers brought to Old Detroit has largely come unraveled in New Detroit. This unraveling, I suggest, is not only a collective melancholy associated with feelings of eroding creativity and autonomy, but also a percolating confrontation with the privileged fantasies of Old Detroit. For makers, New Detroit meant professionalization and gentrification: on one hand, the exigencies of New Detroit have occluded the creative and egalitarian form of change they envisioned for the city; on the other, it opened new financial benefits for their small businesses. The resulting impasse tasked makers with adjusting to the economic and moral uncertainties posed by still-unfolding circumstances in a changing Detroit.

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Inhabiting the impasse: Social exclusion through visible assemblage in neighborhood gentrification

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

Animals and urban gentrification: Displacement and injustice in the trans-species city

Animals and urban gentrification: Displacement and injustice in the trans-species city

Affective atmospheres of gentrification: Wellbeing amid neighbourhood change

Old Detroit, New Detroit: “Makers” and the impasse of place change

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