Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter discusses what it means to study gentrification beyond the Anglo-American domain, emphasizing the possibility of gentrification mutating across time and space, in the same way any other social phenomenon associated with the changing nature of capitalism goes through mutation. It questions why academia should maintain the Anglo-American cultural region as a necessary comparative framework to talk about gentrification elsewhere. Gentrification is now embedded in urbanization processes that bring together politics, culture, society and ideology. The chapter discusses the epistemology of comparative gentrification studies, explaining what it means to think of gentrification in pluralistic perspectives. It discusses the linguistics of gentrification, questioning the extent to which gentrification can be a useful conceptual tool to analyze urban processes in places where gentrification as an expression cannot be easily translated into local expressions.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Authors: Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4309836741