Keeping More Than Homes: A More Than Material Framework for Understanding and Intervening in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods

Thurber, Amie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72311-2_2

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“…Eleven of the sixteen projects (69%) in this sample deployed public pedagogy strategies to address gentrification in their neighborhood. These included skill-building workshops for resident activists (Darcy, 2013), participatory democracy trainings (Nam, 2012), youth-led neighborhood tours (McLean, 2014), public history projects (Chidester & Gadsby, 2016;Thurber, 2018), and resident storysharing sessions (Drew, 2012).…”

Section: Public Pedagogymentioning

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Confronting Gentrification: Can Creative Interventions Help People Keep More than Just Their Homes?

Thurber¹,

Christiano²

2019

ESJ

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Gentrification is changing the landscape of many American cities. As land values rise, people may lose their homes, neighbors, and sites of significance, along with their sense of place, community, and history. There is a critical need to build and preserve affordable housing, yet housing alone will not address the more than material losses. What role can the arts play in sustaining place attachments, restoring relationships, and building place knowledge in gentrifying neighborhoods? This paper explores this question through a systematic review of current research. We identify four prominent alternative interventions in gentrifying neighborhoods—creative placemaking, public pedagogy, community organizing, and public science—and explicate strengths and limitations of each approach. We find the strongest interventions bridge approaches—engaging artists as/and researchers, educators, and community leaders—and mobilize residents as participants in knowledge/cultural production. We note that initiatives that provide short-term benefit may simultaneously make the neighborhood more desirable—and thus more vulnerable to gentrification—in the longer-term. Finally, given the dearth of research in this area, we conclude with recommendations for future research that attends to issues of equity, process as well as outcome, and longitudinal effects of more than material interventions in gentrifying neighborhoods.

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Section: Public Pedagogymentioning

confidence: 99%

Confronting Gentrification: Can Creative Interventions Help People Keep More than Just Their Homes?

Thurber¹,

Christiano²

2019

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“…Affectively, neighbourhoods are places where many people enact caring relations with others and the environment. The emergence of neighbourhoods is not an accident (Thurber, 2018) but rather due to geographic concentrations of risk and opportunity to people in urban areas, as spatial factors are at the core of urban life.…”

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“…Social process models suggest specific strategies to mobilize for change, yet the requisite preconditions (state political opportunity, organizational strength and cognitive liberation in the social movement model) undercut its potential utility for emergent community organizing efforts in sub-optimal conditions. Even though post-structuralism succeeded in capturing indigenous knowledge, strength and potential, it offered no specific instructions on what those groups ought to do with that strength to achieve their goals (Thurber, 2018). A 'great men theory' of historians argues that key events in history would not have occurred without the actions of great men-who served as catalyst for some of the world's most important events (Ghertner, 2015;Shatkin & Vidyarthi, 2014).…”

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Urban Renewal and Growth Opportunity Barriers of Microenterprises: Between Working Space Scarceness and Incongruity in Shashemene City, Ethiopia

Fanta

Megento

2018

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In Ethiopia lack of working space/business premises is one of the external growth opportunity barriers for microenterprises resulting in inefficient absorption of the large labor pool currently entering into this sector of the economy. It also results in sever competition among businesses for city space, leading to street vending and informal business. The overall purpose of this study was to examine the challenges faced by microenterprises pertinent to shortage of working space. A total of 564 samples (304 and 260 enterprise in old but transformed buildings and newly built buildings in the city, respectively) were selected using simple random sampling. For this particular study an embedded mixed research design (EMRD, one methodology within another one) was applied. The data were collected using a survey questionnaire, GIS and interviewes. The obtained quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 and qualitative techniques, description and narration. The findings presented in this paper show the prevalence of working space scarceness and incongruity in Shashemene city. Thus, it can be suggested that the city need to revisit urban land leasehold proclamation performance, urban renewal initiative progress, and old business premises' transfer procedures, and also integrate local trade unions/chambers of commerce synergy and firms' growing working space demand.

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“…, la gentrification, c'est-à-dire l'arrivée dans les quartiers populaires de populations plus aisées financièrement ou possédant un capital culturel différent, a des effets politiques, sociaux et culturels (Thurber, 2018). En matière d'offre commerciale, dans les quartiers centraux de Montréal comme ailleurs dans le monde, on observe une augmentation des prix de différents produits de consommation, ainsi que l'apparition de nouveaux types de commerces (boutiques spécialisées, cafés et restaurants branchés, etc.)…”

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“…En m'intéressant à la perception de la mixité sociale par les intervenantes et par les mères de Sainte-Rita, je souhaite donc porter une plus grande attention aux effets, au-delà du « matériel » (Thurber, 2018), de la gentrification, par l'observation des trajectoires des mères au-delà de l'enceinte scolaire. Cet objet nécessite une certaine finesse d'analyse, puisque le concept de mixité sociale, plus qu'une stratégie politique ou une manière de décrire la composition d'un quartier, est également utilisé par les nouvelles populations qui s'installent dans les quartiers populaires (Butler et Robson, 2001 ;Ball, Vincent et Kemp, 2004 ;Maltais, 2016).…”

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Mixer le social ? Intervention et exercice de la parentalité dans un contexte de gentrification à Montréal

Berthiaume

2020

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La « mixité sociale » fait partie des stratégies des pouvoirs publics pour déconcentrer les quartiers pauvres et favoriser une plus grande cohésion sociale entre les habitant-es issu-es de divers milieux sociaux, culturels et économiques. Alors que la ville fait face à un contexte de gentrification, où des populations plus aisées s’installent dans des quartiers populaires, les politiques de mixité sociale veulent maintenir l’accès à la ville des populations issues de toutes les catégories sociales. Si ce phénomène et ses impacts sur les coûts des logements ou des produits de consommation sont relativement bien documentés, nous en savons encore très peu sur la mise en oeuvre de la mixité en intervention sociale et, plus particulièrement, dans les services entourant le développement de la petite enfance et le soutien à la parentalité. Cet article s’appuie sur une enquête ethnographique combinant une analyse documentaire, des observations, 16 entrevues avec des mères fréquentant les services publics et communautaires qui mettent en place les politiques de soutien à la parentalité et de développement de l’enfant, ainsi que 14 entrevues avec des intervenant-es qui travaillent dans ces structures. L’analyse permet d’observer le fait que le projet de mixité sociale, s’il a pour qualité de promouvoir l’inclusion et l’accès universel de toutes les mères à ces services, pose certaines limites pratiques. Paradoxalement, il ne permet pas à certaines mères, et particulièrement aux plus pauvres et aux plus marginalisées, de rester incluses dans les services qui leur sont pourtant destinés.

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Keeping More Than Homes: A More Than Material Framework for Understanding and Intervening in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Confronting Gentrification: Can Creative Interventions Help People Keep More than Just Their Homes?

Confronting Gentrification: Can Creative Interventions Help People Keep More than Just Their Homes?

Urban Renewal and Growth Opportunity Barriers of Microenterprises: Between Working Space Scarceness and Incongruity in Shashemene City, Ethiopia

Mixer le social ? Intervention et exercice de la parentalité dans un contexte de gentrification à Montréal

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