Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the gentrifier in the mirror

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

Schlichtman and Patch suggest that there is an elephant sitting in the academic corner: while urbanists often use 'gentrification' as a pejorative term in formal and informal academic conversation, many urbanists are gentrifiers themselves. Even though urbanists have this firsthand experience with the process, this familiarity makes little impact on scholarly debate. There is, Schlichtman and Patch argue, an artificial distance in accounts of gentrification because researchers have not adequately examined their own relationship to the process. Utilizing a simple diagnostic tool that includes ten common aspects of gentrification, they compose two autoethnographic memoirs to begin this dialogue. © 2013 Urban Research Publications Limited.

Volume

38

Issue

4

First Page

1491

Last Page

1508

DOI

10.1111/1468-2427.12067

ISSN

03091317

E-ISSN

14682427

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