The symbolic politics of gentrification : the restructuring of stigmatized neighborhoods in Amsterdam and Istanbul

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

SAKIZLIOGLU, N.B.

Urban and Regional Research Center, Univ., Utrecht, Pays-Bas

UITERMARK, J.

Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, School for Social Science Research, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

Description :
This article examines the dynamics of symbolic power as affixed to stigmatized neighborhoods in Istanbul and Amsterdam. It shows taht in both cases the promoters of gentrification adopted a strategy of ‘divide and rule’ as they differentiated the residents into various groups and fed into territorial, ethnic and class stigmatization. And that in both cases they also strategically used time: they first exhausted residents by having them wait anxiously for a prolonged period of time, and then put intense pressure on them to make them accept they had to leave. Both strategies—‘divide and rule’ as well as the timing of interventions—undermined or preempted effective resistance against gentrification.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 6, p. 1369-1385, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion

Langue :
Anglais