The Death of the City?

Brahinsky, Rachel

doi:10.1525/boom.2014.4.2.43

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“…While there have been many scholarly accounts of tech-led gentrification in San Francisco (Brahinsky, 2014; Maharawal, 2017; McElroy, 2016a; Mirabal, 2009; Opillard, 2015; Solnit, 2013: Maharawal and McElroy 2017a), less attention has been paid to the cities across the Bay, particularly Oakland. 8 However, rather than focusing solely on Oakland or San Francisco as ‘discrete’ entities, I contend that a regional analysis that understands the inter-connections between racialized dispossession in Oakland (and the greater East Bay area) and the tech-economy in San Francisco is urgent (McElroy, 2016b; Schafran, 2013).…”

Section: A Regional Political Economy and Its Security Regimementioning

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Black Lives Matter, gentrification and the security state in the San Francisco Bay Area

Maharawal

2017

Anthropological Theory

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In the Fall of 2014, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States and the San Francisco Bay Area became the site of nightly demonstrations that deployed a range of disruptive practices and direct actions. The content and style of these protests reflected both the national political issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement, and highly local and regional struggles over gentrification and displacement. In this article, I analyze these protests in relation to the regional political economy of the tech-industry, the real estate booms, and the attendant ‘eviction epidemic’ in the region. In doing so, I lay out an analysis of the relationship between policing and gentrification in the Black Lives Matter protests in the Bay Area. In the first section, I analyze the regional political economy as the context in which these protests must be understood. In a second section, I argue that the protests created a regional protest geography that, in turn, was met by a regionalized repressive security state. Finally, I read the disruptive practices deployed by these protests as a series of complex and sophisticated contestations which embodied connections among policing, gentrification, and the regional political economy. As such, the Black Lives Matter protests produced an intersectional analysis and can be read as a regional uprising aimed to disrupt the security state.

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Section: A Regional Political Economy and Its Security Regimementioning

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Black Lives Matter, gentrification and the security state in the San Francisco Bay Area

Maharawal

2017

Anthropological Theory

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“…256–258, 272–273). He anticipates a posthuman, post‐Earth society, one in which he owns the real estate, a nod to the exorbitant rents charged by San Francisco landlords and their use of the Ellis Act, a state law enabling landlords to evict all the tenants in a building before selling the building to another landlord for a quick profit and enabling the new landlord to offer the property at even higher rents (Brahinsky, 2014; San Francisco Tenants' Union).…”

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Prometheus by the Bay: Hollywood and tech capitalism in Silicon Valley

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Hunter

2024

The J of Popular Culture

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A sequence of recent science‐fiction films set in the San Francisco Bay Area suggests that Silicon Valley corporations have become a major concern for Hollywood. These films present Silicon Valley capitalism in thrall to a technological experimentation that prompts disastrous outcomes, which the films collectively argue emerges from the corporations' drive for profit and ignorance of the precautionary principle. Yet Hollywood's response to Silicon Valley involves the valorizing of a kinder, less rapacious capitalism than that of Silicon Valley, a position that prevents a thorough critique of a major challenger to its position within our culture.

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“…'. Brahinsky (2014) discussed how the commodification of everyday life impacts upon the politics of care for the city and for the community: the 'ethics of genuine sharing' (p. 50). The transitory nature of Airbnb limits these meaningful shared interactions.…”

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The everyday lived experiences of Airbnbification in London

Rozena

Lees

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper examines the impact of Airbnb on the everyday lived experiences of residents in London. We focus on three spatial scales -the city, neighbourhood, and an individual building. Shortterm rental platforms such as Airbnb have transformed sociocultural urban landscapes by turning homes into informal hotels. We argue that many of the consequences of Airbnb echo and support those of gentrification; this includes indirect displacement, buy-to-let investment, and transient communities. Using mixedmethods, including geodata, online surveys, focus groups, resident diaries, and auto/ethnography, we explore the impact of Airbnb across London, in Kensington, and inside a specific building on Kensington High Street.

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The Death of the City?

Cited by 14 publications

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Black Lives Matter, gentrification and the security state in the San Francisco Bay Area

Black Lives Matter, gentrification and the security state in the San Francisco Bay Area

Prometheus by the Bay: Hollywood and tech capitalism in Silicon Valley

The everyday lived experiences of Airbnbification in London

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