The death and life of gentrification : a new map of a persistent idea / Japonica Brown-Saracino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown-Saracino, Japonica, author.

Series:

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--Social aspects.

Gentrification.

gentrification.

Physical Description:

vii, 297 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"In this lively and insightful book, Japonica Brown-Saracino traces how a concept originally intended to describe the brick-and-mortar transformation of neighborhoods has come to characterize transformations that have little to do with cities. She describes how journalists, artists, filmmakers, novelists, and academics use gentrification as a symbolic device to mourn how everyday pleasures and forms of self-expression--from music to marijuana, kale, and tattoos--entered the domain of the elite. She weighs the implications of turning to gentrification as a tool to tell stories, entertain audiences, and communicate political messages. Relying on vivid examples, the book reveals how the term today expresses widespread ambivalence about rising economic inequality and unease with a variety of forms of social change. This pathbreaking book forces us to think about whether the wide-ranging way we use gentrification dilutes its meaning and stymies efforts to identify and resist urban displacement. Drawing on everything from film and television to novels and art, The Death and Life of Gentrification sheds critical light on the changing meaning of gentrification in contemporary life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Mourning the Dyke Bar

A funeral mass for the triple decker

The "gentrification" of the self

Gentrification as a political metaphor and heuristic

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-291) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780691244358

0691244359

OCLC:

1500181584

Publisher Number:

CIPO000314399