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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Subtitle
- Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End
- EAN
- 9781781687925
- ISBN
- 9781781687925
- Release Year
- 2015
- Publication Name
- Good Neighbors
- Translator
- Catherine Romatowski
- Title
- Good Neighbors
- Contributor
- Catherine Romatowski (Translated by)
- ISBN-10
- 1781687927
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Release Date
- 09/06/2015
- Book Title
- Good Neighbors : Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Regional Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Urban
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1781687927
ISBN-13
9781781687925
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201577181
Product Key Features
Book Title
Good Neighbors : Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Regional Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Urban
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-004601
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Because of the quality of the ethnographic enquiry and the relevance of the issues raised, this approach to gentrification allows Tissot to go beyond simplistic accounts of the sociological transformations of a neighborhood." -- Nonfiction.fr "The rich material gathered during in-depth field enquiries and the invaluable archives collected from the inhabitants will win the skeptics over. A significant contribution to the debate surrounding progressive upper class culture." -- La vie des idees.fr "Gentrification has been the object of a very rich sociological literature. This book is an original contribution to the debate. Tissot is a master in the art of sailing in the murky waters of 'progressive' discourses, and she does so without a pinch of salt." -- L'Humanité " Good Neighbors is a solid and fruitful contribution to current debates around urban and social coexistence." -- Le Mouvement Social, "You don't have to share Tissot's politics to worry about the underlying dynamic she describes: Under almost any rules for civic engagement, people with resources and connections can steer the process to their own advantage. Even liberal values can disguise a form of control." -- Boston Globe "Sylvie Tissot--a hip, brilliant, de Tocqueville of the post-'68 left--casts a fair but jaundiced eye on America's plump underbelly of tolerant privilege and its flattened idea of diversity. A truly memorable account of gentrification and its discontents." --Michael Sorkin "What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "A powerful contribution to the rising tide of scholarship on global gentrification. It will make you think twice the next time you hear a neighbourhood celebrated as 'vibrant'." --Thomas Meaney, Times Literary Supplement " Good Neighbors powerfully demonstrates how gentrifiers often fixate on the old (homes) and the marginally political (greenmarkets) so that they do not have to think about the displacement involved in neighborhood change and their own role in it." -- Public Books "A penetrating analysis of the social practices and cultural strategies that turn slum neighborhoods into safe spaces for the rising elite. It's an ethnography of Boston, but it sheds light on urban dynamics throughout the world." --Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo and Heat Wave "A work of creativity and imagination that goes beyond the well-known gentrification arguments that have proliferated of late. A sure winner." --Michele Lamont, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University "A fascinating analysis of exclusion, lack of self-awareness and conflicting values." -- Next City "Because of the quality of the ethnographic enquiry and the relevance of the issues raised, this approach to gentrification allows Tissot to go beyond simplistic accounts of the sociological transformations of a neighborhood." -- Nonfiction.fr "The rich material gathered during in-depth field enquiries and the invaluable archives collected from the inhabitants will win the skeptics over. A significant contribution to the debate surrounding progressive upper class culture." -- La Vie des Idées "An original contribution to the [gentrification] debate. Tissot is a master in the art of sailing in the murky waters of 'progressive' discourses, and she does so without a pinch of salt." -- L'Humanité " Good Neighbors is a solid and fruitful contribution to current debates around urban and social coexistence." -- Le Mouvement Social
Dewey Decimal
305.5/50974461
Synopsis
Cities are the prime locus of class conflict today. Often described as gentrification, the material bases and concrete manifestations of this new form of social violence have too often gone uncharted, however. Through an historical and ethnographical account of the changing face of one former working class neighborhood in Boston, Good Neighbors provides fascinating insights into how the urban elites have reshaped the neighborhood they now inhabit. Investigating the mix of inclusion and exclusion that characterizes elite culture, Tissot demonstrates that while new mixed demographics emerged and coexistence alongside different populations - whether for their income, their ethnic origins or their sexual orientation - have become a prized quality, social barriers have not in any sense been erased, indeed quite the contrary., Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the country and indeed the contemporary world. This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.
LC Classification Number
HN80.B7.T5713 2015
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