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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part V

The neoliberal doxa of the state

February 9, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is the final segment of an essay in five parts written by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi for Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power and Authority course. *** As discussed part I and II, third-wave gentrification can be understood of as the neoliberal state’s response to post-Fordist urban decline at the ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part V

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

Applying Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power

February 8, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is part four of an essay in five parts, written by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi for Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power and Authority course. Previously, Rumi criticized incorporations of Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus in discussing gentrification as less applicable to third-wave gentrification, and excusatory of gentrifiers’ destructive actions in re-appropriating and ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part II

Conceptualizing Gentrification Today

February 6, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

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 I

Re-contextualizing urban renewal

February 5, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

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.” ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part I

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Racial Preference and Grindr

The enduring erotics of colonialism

January 11, 2018 • by Dominic Reilly

Beyond preference vs. prejudice At what point does preference become discrimination? This question was used to frame a recent video produced by Grindr exploring the increasingly prominent topic of “race” and so-called “racial preferences” on hook-up and dating apps. That increasing attention is being paid to the racialized aspects of our partner selections ...

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Trump’s Head and Women’s Blood

Is Kathy Griffin’s controversial image a work of protest art?

December 2, 2017 • by Lisa Aslanian

Kathy Griffin released a picture of herself, wearing a navy or royal blue pussy-bow blouse and holding up a faux severed and bleeding head of Donald Trump. How to describe her gaze? Emotionless? Steely? Resolved. I am not going to spend this essay defending the image or deconstructing the fallout around ...