Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

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She lucidly explains modern feminist and urban theories and brings fresh insights and a measure of hope to a vexing social issue. With emphasis on the change of language, Kern shows that the way language has been changed to make the act seem less as harmful and more beneficial to communities by using terminology in the vein of ‘urban renewal’ and ‘revitalization’ to name a few.

Esta última parte sin duda es la más débil de todas, pues en la mejor de las tradiciones liberales, trata de sumar distintas perspectivas bajo una misma lucha dentro de los marcos del capitalismo.Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies is a good overview of the issue and different ways of approaching the topic. but to compare her besties drag king performance as a hysterical gentrifier to Moms 4 Housing or landback movements or, hell, even CLTs seems weird and distorting.

And with incisive clarity, she develops an account of what a radical, intersectional anti-gentrification politics might look like.I read this book on a Friday afternoon, at the end of a week when I started taking hot-girl walks on my lunch hour through Brownstone Brooklyn, and had been counting and ratioing “colonizer” vs “Old Brooklyn” sightings. I don’t think it went into enough depth with most of its sections, but for a text that comes off as introductory, I guess that’s alright?

Often, the language of gentrification mirrors the language of imperialism, discovery, and conquest but in ways that elide, rather than illuminate, the colonial structures underlying the process. Readers who have read a fair amount on gentrification might think Kern’s book won’t offer any surprises, but Gentrification is Inevitable may encourage you to reframe and rethink some of your ideas. She argues that gentrification is not natural That it can not be understood in economics terms, or by class. g., gentrification is natural; gentritifcation is about class; gentrification is inevitable… Kern argues these myths are incomplete, often false, and are designed to conceal the rapaciousness of urban dispossession.

From the forced removal of Indigenous people to the redlining of Black neighbourhoods, from the disenfranchisement of women through suburbanization to the expulsion of the LGBTQ+ community, Kern’s writing is a rallying cry for the decolonization of placemaking and a blueprint for an urbanism rooted in social justice and fairness. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.