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| Document Type: | Book |
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Sylvie Tissot |
| ISBN: | 9781781687925 1781687927 |
| OCLC Number: | 882185102 |
| Notes: | "First published as De bons voisins : enquête dans un quartier de la bourgeoisie progressiste, Editions Raisons d'Agir, Paris, 2011." |
| Description: | 282 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | A journey into the liberal upper middle class -- The birth of a local elite in a working-class neighborhood -- Philanthropic adventurers -- Creating historical heritage -- Conquering the nooks and crannies -- Conclusion: The making of the upper liberal middle class. A journey into the liberal upper middle class. The discovery of the South End ; Proximity to and distance from the research subjects -- The birth of a local elite in a working-class neighborhood. The triumph of resident participation... ; ... For which residents? ; A neighborhood elite -- Philanthropic adventurers. Private property and social conscience ; Love and control of diversity -- Creating historical heritage. Connoisseurs, conservatives ; Brick and wrought iron ; Cultural distinction versus public housing ; An historic neighborhood or an artistic one?-- Conquering the nooks and crannies. Controlling and marking space ; Social mixing, animal mixing -- Conclusion. The making of the upper liberal middle class. A mobilized class. |
| Other Titles: | De bons voisins. |
| Responsibility: | Sylvie Tissot ; translated by David Broder, with Catherine Romatowski. |
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"Sylvie Tissot-a hip, brilliant, de Toqueville of the post-'68 left-casts a fair but jaundiced eye on America's plump underbelly of tolerant privilege and its flattened idea of diversity. A truly memorable account of gentrification and its discontents." Michael Sorkin "A penetrating analysis of the social practices and cultural strategies that turn slum neighborhoods into safe spaces for the rising elite. It's an ethnography of Boston, but it sheds light on urban dynamics throughout the world." Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo and Heat Wave "A work of creativity and imagination that goes beyond the well-known gentrification arguments that have proliferated of late. A sure winner." Michele Lamont, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University "Because of the quality of the ethnographic enquiry and the relevance of the issues raised, this approach to gentrification allows Tissot to go beyond simplistic accounts of the sociological transformations of a neighbourhood." Nonfiction.fr "The rich material gathered during in-depth field enquiries and the invaluable archives collected from the inhabitants will win the skeptics over. A significant contribution to the debate surrounding progressive upper class culture." La vie des idees.fr "Gentrification has been the object of a very rich sociological literature. This book is an original contribution to the debate. Tissot is a master in the art of sailing in the murky waters of progressive discourses, and she does so without a pinch of salt." L Humanite "Good Neighbors" is a solid and fruitful contribution to current debates around urban and social coexistence." Le Mouvement Social "A fascinating analysis of exclusion, lack of self-awareness and conflicting values." Next City "Good Neighbors powerfully demonstrates how gentrifiers often fixate on the old (homes) and the marginally political (greenmarkets) so that they do not have to think about the displacement involved in neighborhood change and their own role in it." Public Books "What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not" Los Angeles Review of Books "Hershfang is 'very critical of the book', specifically that Tissot made no reference to children, whom he called the 'glue' and the 'salvation' of the neighborhood." Southend News "A powerful contribution to the rising tide of scholarship on global gentrification. It will make you think twice the next time you hear a neighbourhood celebrated as 'vibrant'." - Thomas Meaney, Times Literary Supplement "Tissot's anthropological approach yields a richness of detail about gentrifiers perhaps never equalled in previous studies." - Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs Read more...
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- Middle class -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Attitudes.
- Gentrification -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Cultural pluralism -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Cultural fusion -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Sociology, Urban -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Neighborhoods -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- South End (Boston, Mass.) -- Social conditions.
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
- Cultural fusion.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Gentrification.
- Middle class -- Attitudes.
- Neighborhoods -- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End.
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