The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part II

Conceptualizing Gentrification Today

In first segment in this five-part series, Stefano Rumi suggested that gentrification has mutated into a remarkably consistent and replicable phenomenon of urban development in diverse cities across the world. In the second segment, below, Rumi further explores this new form of gentrification, entitled “third-wave gentrification,” and its inequitable effects ...
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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part II

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part I

Re-contextualizing urban renewal

In an essay published in five parts, Stefano Rumi, a student in Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power course at University of Virginia, will lay out a critique of gentrification, identify its ideological underpinnings, and analyze what it would take to produce an alternative. Below is the introduction. “There is no alternative.” ...
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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part I