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Gentrification and Resistance

Gentrification and Resistance

Cultural Criminology, Control, and the Commodification of Urban Protest in Hamburg

by Laura Naegler
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/03/2012

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Based on ethnographic research in Hamburg Sternschanze and utilizing the cultural criminological perspective as an underlying theme, this book explores the contested spaces of gentrified inner city neighborhoods. It examines the complex and sometimes paradoxical interplays of urban revaluation, criminalized anti-gentrification resistance, and urban control. The main focus lies on the spatialized commodification of urban counter-culture and its incorporation into the process of gentrification. It is shown that by these processes, authentic anti-gentrification resistance becomes increasingly sanitized. Blurred and hardly distinguishable from commodified rebellion, it eventually loses its subversive power and political vigor, and, unwillingly, turns into an integral of the process of urban revaluation it is originally meant to defend. (Series: Hamburger Studien zur Kriminologie und Kriminalpolitik - Vol. 50)
ISBN:
9783643901149
9783643901149
Category:
Crime & criminology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-03-2012
Publisher:
Lit Verlag
Country of origin:
Germany
Pages:
184
Dimensions (mm):
209x147mm
Weight:
0.31kg

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