Often gentrification gets talked about in a binary way where there are good and bad actors, winners and losers. Clearly written and structured, this is a comprehensive consideration of the causes and effects of gentrification. 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. I received this book as an ALC on Libro and picked it up to get in another read at the end of the month.

Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. 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. Leslie Kern dissects seven common myths about gentrification, asserting that any study of the urban phenomenon should be examined not only in terms of class but also through the lenses of queer-feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial points of view. honestly I checked out a little when they used Tenderloin San Francisco USA as an example of a gentrified neighborhood.It is exactly this type of academic-but-not-practical ���understanding” of a term that continues to support de facto whiteness and cultural supremacy–it is a weasel-word way of pushing through forced displacement of non-white non-het non-cis people while ignoring the racialized evils of capital-influxed “progress.

Kern acknowledges intersectionality but her arguments often seem very silo'ed; it feels like she's comparing tomatoes to potatoes. In this clear and smartly written book, Leslie Kern brings together some of the most recognizable and essential elements of urban gentrification, making this familiar and ubiquitous term strange, in the most effective and generative ways. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. and i think it actually does tenant organizing a disservice to pretend as if these concepts are separate.Like the author, I am white middle mom who made this place my home to find a cheaper way to raise my kids in an expensive city, opening the flood gates for yoga studios, drag brunch, and oat milk lattes. An insightful read on gentrification, capitalism, 'white privilege', and many things I haven't really thought about before, such as the gentrification of 'yoga', 'tattoos', and more. Kern invites the reader to reflect on their own social location and relationship to gentrification (this section of the last chapter is perhaps most useful). En este sentido, al establecer que no es "natural", sino un fenómeno producto de las decisiones humanas, es entonces evitable y, por lo tanto, es posible oponerse al mismo.

The book may have just been not aimed at the lay-reader who only dabbles in feminist/socialist literature (and haven't read any anti-colonial literature. Los primeros 8 se dedican a explicar la gentrificación, desmitificar visiones comunes y establecer distintas relaciones que la impulsan. Kern, author of the much-loved Feminist City, provides a thorough and extremely thoughtful intersectional analysis of gentrification, particularly through the lens of decolonization. Plus, reference to fellow scholars and community organizers underscores points in text about fellowship and community.Este libro de Leslie Kern es un buen texto que se centra en desmitificar varias ideas populares sobre el fenómeno de gentrificación. If you live long enough to be on a fixed income, gentrification screams, you might have made a mistake.