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The Battle for the High Street - Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Battle for the High Street - Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets
in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to
have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have
declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a
familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the
policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets
are often thinly-veiled attacks on the tastes and cultures of the
working class. Policy-makers often promote boutiques, art galleries
and upmarket cafes at the expense of some of the outlets frequented
by less affluent populations, including betting shops, fast food
takeaways, discount stores and bargain booze outlets. Highlighting
the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' high streets
continue to play in the lives of working class and disadvantaged
populations, this book provides a powerful argument against retail
gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in
austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to scholars of
geography, social policy and cultural studies.
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