Keeping More Than Homes: A More Than Material Framework for Understanding and Intervening in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods

Published In

Urban Renewal, Community and Participation Theory, Policy and Practice

ISBN

9783319723112

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

Amie Thurber, a scholar-practitioner working with small-scale neighbourhood geographies in the United States, also builds on the need to understand the participation and involvement of vulnerable, low-income residents in gentrifying neighbourhoods. Linking theoretical writings across disciplinary boundaries, encompassing political philosophy, geography and community psychology, Thurber analyses neighbourhood in terms of material, epistemic and affective dimensions. As well as offering a deeper understanding of the harms done by gentrification, the chapter proposes its ‘more than material’ conceptual framework as a means of imagining then enacting positive interventions to create spaces of resident representation, build relationships between neighbours and support participatory action.

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Amie Thurber was affiliated with Vanderbilt University at the time of publication.

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http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72311-2_2

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-72311-2

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26422

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