Gentrification and the Media

Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6372-099-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Cities and Cultures

Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who advocate or resist gentrification can be heard. How can this profusion of content be examined? What methods can be used to critically address the role of the media in constructing and propagating discourses on gentrification? Central to this book is the idea that new research should engage with the theoretical and methodological issues that emerge when media products are used as a corpus to study gentrification.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadoux, Stéphane

Vincent, Marie-Pierre

Fée, David

Dalingwater, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Gentrification and the Media – Stéphane Sadoux, Marie-Pierre Vincent, David Fée, Louise Dalingwater

PART 1: Comparing and contrasting discourses on gentrification

2. The Local and International Press and the Gentrification of Western Leipzig (Germany): Between Promotional Narratives of Social Transformations and Late Discovery of the Negatives Consequences of Gentrification – Antonin Girardin

3. Crime and Gentrification in News Reporting – Aurora Wallace

4. Discussion – Martine Drozdz

PART 2: Place-making through evolving narratives

5. Gentrification as entertainment: New Orleans as seen on HGTV – Ella Howard

6. Shaping and diverting public space regulation: newspaper coverage of an eviction in a BID, Washington, DC – Nacima Baron

7. Discussion – Japonica Brown-Saracino

PART 3: Fuelling and orchestrating gentrification

8. The eviction of ethnicity and class in the media coverage of commercial gentrification in the 18th arrondissement of Paris – Pierre Joffre

9. Constructing the authenticity of gentrified districts? Newspaper coverage of Belleville (Paris) and El Raval (Barcelona) – Marina Montaner

10. Acknowledging the interplay between religion and gentrification in the press? “Muslim enclaves” in Goutte d’Or (Paris) and El Raval (Barcelona) – Victor Albert-Blanco

11. Discussion – Yankel Fijalkow

PART 4: Voicing alternative narratives and resisting gentrification

12. The “I am Denver” Chief Storytelling Office: critical co-creative media to change the dominant narrative of gentrification? – Simon Renoir

13. Citizen journalism and gentrification: local community views and discourses on urban change in Brixton, London, 2011-2022 – Stéphane Sadoux

14. Popular vs. independent local newspapers and anti-gentrification resistance: mixed representations of the 2015 Cereal Killer Cafe attack in London – Marie-Pierre Vincent

15. Discussion - Matthew Hardy

Conclusion

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Dalingwater, Louise
Louise Dalingwater is professor of British Studies at Sorbonne University, Paris. She specializes in the service sector, notably financial services and public services. Some of her work has looked at the spatial dimension of service industries such as financial service location.

Fée, David
David Fée is professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He specializes in housing policy in the UK. He has co-edited several books including Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost (Emerald, 2021).

Vincent, Marie-Pierre
Marie-Pierre Vincent is a senior lecturer of British studies at Paris 1–Panthéon Sorbonne and affiliated with the European Centre of Sociology and Political Science. Her thesis focused on anti-gentrification resistance in Hoxton/Shoreditch in London (2008–2019). Her work also relates to art and anti-gentrification activism, political discourse and gentrification, and socio-cultural diversity.

Sadoux, Stéphane
Stéphane Sadoux is a town planner and an historian. He graduated from the Universities of Oxford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Grenoble. He is a past Director of Unité de Recherche AE&CC at the Grenoble School of Architecture (ENSAG), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). He is currently leading UGA’s Excellence in Architecture programme (LabEx).