The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

Applying Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power

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 ...
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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV