2014
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12128
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Loving Diversity/Controlling Diversity: Exploring the Ambivalent Mobilization of Upper‐Middle‐Class Gentrifiers, South End, Boston

Abstract: This article centers on a group of upper-middle-class gentrifiers living in a neighborhood in the South End of Boston, and their complex attitude towards diversity. I use data from my fieldwork in the South End, based on ethnographic observation and 77 interviews with residents active in local organizations, such as neighborhood associations. These residents explicitly stress their endorsement of diversity, in terms of class, race, but also sexual orientation, and their commitment to maintaining it. I examine … Show more

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“…The experience of difference is marked by everyday grievances often centred on the breaching of expected codes of conduct. In addition, 'home' spaces of comfort and familiarity are removed in processes of demolition and displacement (Butcher & Dickens, 2016).The outcome of encounter under these conditions has been widely documented, debated and variously described as agonistic, if not antagonistic (Britton, 2011;Butler, 2003;Harris, 2010;Permezel & Duffy, 2007;Vertovec, 2015;Vieten & Valentine, 2015;Watson, 2006), marked by the micro-politics of aggression and resentment (Bacqué, Charmes, & Vermeersch, 2014;Bloch & Dreher, 2009;Crozier & Davies, 2008;Drew, 2011;Tissot, 2014), as well as tolerance, conviviality and sharing (Neal, Vincent, & Iqbal, 2016;Wessendorf, 2014;Wise, 2005).…”
Section: Reflexivity and The Breaches Of Encountermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The experience of difference is marked by everyday grievances often centred on the breaching of expected codes of conduct. In addition, 'home' spaces of comfort and familiarity are removed in processes of demolition and displacement (Butcher & Dickens, 2016).The outcome of encounter under these conditions has been widely documented, debated and variously described as agonistic, if not antagonistic (Britton, 2011;Butler, 2003;Harris, 2010;Permezel & Duffy, 2007;Vertovec, 2015;Vieten & Valentine, 2015;Watson, 2006), marked by the micro-politics of aggression and resentment (Bacqué, Charmes, & Vermeersch, 2014;Bloch & Dreher, 2009;Crozier & Davies, 2008;Drew, 2011;Tissot, 2014), as well as tolerance, conviviality and sharing (Neal, Vincent, & Iqbal, 2016;Wessendorf, 2014;Wise, 2005).…”
Section: Reflexivity and The Breaches Of Encountermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This increased sense of security suggests a more complicated process at play than the straightforward antagonism, or tolerance at best between new and existing residents indicated in some gentrification research (e.g. Bacqué et al ., ; Tissot, ). There may be signs of resistance in Hackney in the occasional piece of hostile graffiti targeting ‘hipsters', and in the type of preservation campaigns outlined above.…”
Section: Affective Displacementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lehman-Frisch (2013) s'intéresse à la place particulière de la rue, surtout la rue commerçante qui, en concentrant de nombreux usages, favorise les rencontres multiples avec résidents et usagers du quartier. Si ces rencontres ont été critiquées pour être superficielles du fait qu'elles ne seraient que simple reconnaissance, d'autres chercheurs ont montré qu'elles peuvent donner lieu à des relations de sociabilité plus développées, notamment à l'occasion d'événements organisés dans le quartier (Henning et Lieberg, 1996;Tissot, 2014). Le cas de la fête de quartier à Ahuntsic cité en introduction évoque certainement l'importance des événements du quartier dans les manières qu'ont les familles de cohabiter et d'habiter la ville et le quartier.…”
Section: Le Rôle Des Jeunes Familles Avec Enfants Dans Les Transformaunclassified