Watt, Paul (2008) The only class in town? gentrification and the middle-class colonization of the city and the urban imagination. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32 (1), pp. 206-211. ISSN 0309-1317.
Abstract
This essay argues that Tom Slater's article makes several important points regarding what he rightly suggests is the disappearance of a critical edge from much of the recent gentrification literature. It explores one of these points in greater depth, i.e. the notion that the working class occupy a 'backstage' role vis-à-vis the analysis of gentrification. This is done via a discussion of gentrification and London's class structure in relation to the work of Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett. The essay makes a plea for more 'bottom up' accounts of gentrification which focus upon the urban working class, especially in relation to contemporary processes of policy-driven state-led gentrification.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | gentrification, working class, middle-class gentrifiers, state-led gentrification, Bourdieu, habitus, London, displacement, suburbanization, white flight |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Moving Image, Birkbeck Institute for the (BIMI) |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2011 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:52 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2238 |
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