Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

236 Pages·2014·1.422 MB·English

by  Kirsteen Paton

Gentrification:
a WorkinG-class PersPective
For Cassie
Gentrification:
A Working-Class Perspective
kirsteen Paton
University of Leeds, UK
© Kirsteen Paton 2014
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Paton, Kirsteen.
Gentrification : a working-class perspective / by Kirsteen Paton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-1850-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-1851-7 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-
1-4724-1852-4 (epub) 1. Social classes--Great Britain. 2. Gentrification--Great Britain.
3. Working class--Great Britain. 4. Neighborhoods--Great Britain. 5. Group identity-
-Great Britain. I. Title.
HN400.S6P37 2014
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
1 Restructuring Theory 13
2 Restructuring Class Identity 67
3 Elective Belonging and Fixity to Place 97
4 Gentrifying Working-Class Subjects:
Participating in Consumer Citizenship 125
5 The Paradox of Gentrification:
Displacing the Working-Class Subject 155
Conclusions: Reinvigorating Urban Class Analysis 185
Appendix: Cases of Gentrification 199
Bibliography 205
Index 219
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List of Figures
1.1 Measures and methods of studying direct and indirect
displacement (continuum) 38
1.2 Inside the penthouse suite of Glasgow Harbour,
looking across to the shipyards in Govan 62
1.3 A view of Partick from the Harbour development 63
1.4 Shops on Dumbarton Road 65
3.1 Gardener Street Partick, looking towards Hyndland 117
4.1 Mansfield Park, unfinished redevelopment, 2009 139
4.2 View of Mansfield Park looking towards the upgraded, but
downsized, sports court with bin with graffiti in the foreground 141
4.3 Graffiti on Glasgow Harbour promotional board 142
6.1 Abandoned promotional sign on the Glasgow Harbour
site at South Street, September 2009 196
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List of Tables
1.1 Production versus consumption in the orthodox
explanations of gentrification 33
1.2 Theoretical divides in gentrification literature 33
1.3 Positive and negative effects of gentrification 38
2.1 Residents’ NS-SeC and class identification 71
2.2 NS-SeC classifications 73
3.1 ‘Local’ residents and tenure 98
3.2 Incomers’ residential biography and tenure 99
3.3 Locals’ residential biography with tenure 104
4.1 Residents’ class identification and community participation 126
4.2 Increase in houses price sales at intermediate geography,
city and national levels, 1997–2007 150
5.1 Components of new housing supply in Scotland 172
5.2 House sales median prices 1997–2007 by intermediate geography 173
5.3 ‘Notice of proceedings’, court actions and housing recovery
undertaken by PHA 2005–2008 181