Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

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Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women's and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Beyond the Yoga studio, farmer's market and tattoo parlour, gentrification is more than a metaphor, but impacts the most vulnerable communities. Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies challenges a number of well-entrenched perspectives on gentrification from the anticapitalist left as well as the market-minded right…Kern’s book is thorough in its intersectionality. A concise but also comprehensive account of gentrification, offering solutions and understanding of one of the major social battlegrounds of our times.

At once a devastating critique of the limitations of established perspectives on gentrification and a convincing plea for an intersectional approach, this book offers sparklingly clear analysis and numerous possibilities for political action. the people already actively organizing against gentrification are not only not participating in the myth-making she's critiquing, but building more analytical frameworks of dispossession than the willy-nilly ones Kern overviews in this book.Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies] examines the forces behind displacement in North America and beyond, arguing for an intersectional way of understanding gentrification, one that acknowledges the harms done to working people based not just on class but also on race, gender, and sexuality. From the walled city of ancient Jericho to the modern-day metropolis of Tokyo, discover what cities can tell us about our past while also inspiring us to build a better future. The impact of gentrification on race, class, gender, age, and Indigenous peoples are astutely explored…A first class analysis and tool kit. Analyzing connections between gentrification and culture, money, class, communities and more, she challenges readers to dismantle the ‘common sense’ train of thought that it is inevitable. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Por lo cuál difícilmente puede lograr tener las escalas de cambio para enfrentar un fenómeno que se presenta en muchas ciudades del planeta. gentrification is not a metaphor and it is a material process, and i don't think its materiality or class dimension undermines the fact that gentrification is a continuation of colonial dispossession or racial discrimination or nuclear home life.sometimes it feels like the book is pitting different minorities and their issues against each other (white moms and Montessori, gay masculine neighborhoods). Often, the language of gentrification mirrors the language of imperialism, discovery, and conquest but in ways that elide, rather than illuminate, the colonial structures underlying the process. In Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies , Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London and Paris to look at how gentrification is killing our cities and what we can do about it. How can we convince someone a mom-and-pop restaurant is as important as the new eatery with 100 beers on tap? I wanted to like this, as I thought I would agree with the premise and wanted to know what actionable solutions has worked to combat it.