Changing representations of race and place : a socio-historical meta-synthesis of gentrification in Regent Park, Toronto / Brittany Blizzard, Christopher Mele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blizzard, Brittany, author.

Mele, Christopher, author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods. Cases.

SAGE Research Methods. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--Ontario.

Gentrification.

Race.

Regent Park (Toronto, Ont.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

In the process of gentrifying or redeveloping inner city neighborhoods, race figures prominently not only with regard to demographic changes but also in how places are represented by key stakeholders, such as city leaders, developers, and residents themselves. How is race used to justify certain kinds of neighborhood change and not others? How do residents respond to representations of their neighborhood and even themselves? This process of racialization--the strategic employment of racial discourses to define, legitimize, and resist social and spatial changes related to gentrification--serves as an adaptive and strategic means for city leaders, developers, and community-based organizations to control, plan, implement, and contest efforts to reshape impoverished neighborhoods. By examining the vast ways community change is represented, we can detect and analyze the significance of race and racial narratives to the contested process of gentrification. In the ongoing redevelopment of the Regent Park community of Toronto, Canada, the deployment of racial tropes and narratives, such as diversity and "social mix," organize and make legible gentrification and its consequences of displacement for communities of poor minority residents. To understand the historical context of the redevelopment of Regent Park and demonstrate how racialization may influence the trajectory of neighborhood change, we conducted a socio-historical meta-synthesis whereby a wide range of existing qualitative works and documents became our data. We amalgamated articles, reports, laws, and planning documents to create a historical timeline and to complete an integrative review of the data.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5264-4427-5

9781526444271

OCLC:

1023827139