Super-gentrification and hyper-tourismification in Le Marais, Paris

Gravari-Barbas, Maria

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“…In the next section we highlight why the links between tourism and lifestyle migration are critical to understanding transnational gentrification. Despite gentrification driven by tourism lifestyles being noted in core centres of accumulation – cities such as Paris for instance (Gravari-Barbas, 2017) – in this paper we refer to the context of Southern Europe. Following this, we present our case study and methodology.…”

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Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona

2020

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In a context of global-scale inequalities and increased middle-class transnational mobility, this paper explores how the arrival of Western European and North American migrants in Barcelona drives a process of gentrification that coexists and overlaps with the development of tourism in the city. Research has focused increasingly on the role of visitors and Airbnb in driving gentrification. However, our aim is to add another layer to the complexity of neighbourhood change in tourist cities by considering the role of migrants from advanced economies as gentrifiers in these neighbourhoods. We combined socio-demographic analysis with in-depth interviews and, from this, we found that: (1) lifestyle opportunities, rather than work, explain why transnational migrants are attracted to Barcelona, resulting in privileged consumers of housing that then displace long-term residents; (2) migrants have become spatially concentrated in tourist enclaves and interact predominantly with other transnational mobile populations; (3) the result is that centrally located neighbourhoods are appropriated by foreigners – both visitors and migrants – who are better positioned in the unequal division of labour, causing locals to feel increasingly excluded from the place. We illustrate that tourism and transnational gentrification spatially coexist and, accordingly, we provide an analysis that integrates both processes to understand how neighbourhood change occurs in areas impacted by tourism. By doing so, the paper offers a fresh reading of how gentrification takes place in a Southern European destination and, furthermore, it provides new insights into the conceptualisation of tourism and lifestyle migration as drivers of gentrification.

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Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona

2020

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“…Typically more expensive than goods sold at the retailers they replace, these products blend a taste for the upscale and "authentic", including local, organic, and "craft" food products (Anguelovski, 2015a(Anguelovski, , 2015bGonzalez & Waley, 2013;Ocejo, 2017a;Zukin, 2008), one-of-a kind or handmade clothes and artisan goods (Ocejo, 2017b;Zukin & Kosta, 2004), and funky, antique, or modern housewares (Deener, 2012). Tourism gentrification (Gotham, 2005) may produce similar changes in local character, as shops and restaurants catering to tourists-including upscale tourists-replace cobblers, butchers, and grocers, while short-term rentals replace long-term tenants (Gravari- Barbas, 2017;Pinkster & Boterman, 2017).…”

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On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods

Paulsen

Stuber

2022

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Affluent people have long used places, including residential areas and their associated commercial districts and public spaces, as markers of class status. In doing so, they have often sought places that are homogeneous in terms class, and often race/ethnicity, and sought to preserve elite enclaves through a variety of policies and practices. But as we detail here, affluent people are now drawn to different types of residential settings, and their presence influences these places in sometimes surprising ways. In this essay, we review both exclusionary forms of affluent placemaking and more complex and varied forms emerging in gentrifying and super-gentrifying places. There, the strategies that affluent residents use to create and preserve places have become more varied, as have the relationships between place and class status. These more nuanced understandings of class and place reflects scholars' heightened interest in the cultural dimensions of social class, intersections of race and class, and attention to the ways in which class and affluence reflect and influence the political context.

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“…The protests were about the housing bubble in Spain, household debt, the marketing of the city, evictions, austerity cuts and changes to urban plans (Ribas, 2020) and were largely driven by those seeking an independent Catalonia, and further regionalisation (Hughes, 2018). In Amsterdam, the protests were about “global forces, boosted by local government” (Pinkster and Boterman, 2017, p. 469) while the Paris protests came from upper middle-class associations who had already displaced working-class residents (Gravari-Barbas, 2017). There is little to connect these protests to a broad grassroot “overtourism movement” (Cheer et al , 2019) or a lens to analyse overtourism and “tourism phobia” (Milano et al , 2019d).…”

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Unpacking overtourism as a discursive formation through interdiscursivity

Regan

Salazar

Choe

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Purpose As tourism destinations grapple with declines in tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 measures, scholarly debate on overtourism remains active, with discussions on solutions that could be enacted to contain the excessive regrowth of tourism and the return of “overtourism”. As social science holds an important role and responsibility to inform the debate on overtourism, this paper aims to understand overtourism by examining it as a discursive formation. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores recurring thematic threads in scholarly overtourism texts, given the phrases coherence as a nodal-point is partially held in place by a collective body of texts authored by a network of scholars who have invested in it. The paper uses interdiscursivity as an interpretative framework to identify overlapping thematic trajectories found in existing discourses. Findings Overtourism, as a discursive formation, determines what can and should be said about the self-evident “truths” of excessive tourist arrivals, the changes tourists bring to destinations and the range of discursive solutions available to manage or end overtourism. As the interpellation of these thematic threads into scholarly texts is based on a sense of crisis and urgency, the authors find that the themes contain rhetoric, arguments and metaphors that problematise tourists and construct them as objects in need of control and correction. Originality/value While the persistence of the discursive formation will be determined by the degree to which scholarly and other actors recognise themselves in it, this paper may enable overtourism scholars to become aware of the limits of their discursive domain and help them to expand the discourse or weave a new one.

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Super-gentrification and hyper-tourismification in Le Marais, Paris

Cited by 23 publications

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Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona

Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona

On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods

Unpacking overtourism as a discursive formation through interdiscursivity

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