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COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely
at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of
ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn
neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the
authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown. Putting their
private lives into broader scientific and public contexts, Krase
and DeSena discuss a wide range of research methods and theories,
as well as print and internet media sources about the pandemic.
With words and images, the scholar-activist authors place their own
personal experiences and those of their family and neighbors inside
the broader context of global and national medical emergencies, as
well as related economic, social, and political unrest, such as
widespread unemployment, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the
contentious 2020 presidential election. Using a distributive social
justice perspective and examining their own privileges, they
discover and discuss the racial and economic inequities that
affected the lives of other Brooklynites. These disparities
included public health measures and lack of access to basic
necessities of urban living. The book also addresses the cultural
and economic shifts that took place at the start of the pandemic
and contemplate how those forces will impact on future urban life,
asking what the "new normal" of business, entertainment, education,
housing, and work will look like locally and globally. This richly
illustrated book offers an invaluable local study of the impact of
the pandemic on ordinary people in Brooklyn. As such, it will be of
great interest to students and researchers in the humanities and
social sciences.
COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely
at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of
ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn
neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the
authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown. Putting their
private lives into broader scientific and public contexts, Krase
and DeSena discuss a wide range of research methods and theories,
as well as print and internet media sources about the pandemic.
With words and images, the scholar-activist authors place their own
personal experiences and those of their family and neighbors inside
the broader context of global and national medical emergencies, as
well as related economic, social, and political unrest, such as
widespread unemployment, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the
contentious 2020 presidential election. Using a distributive social
justice perspective and examining their own privileges, they
discover and discuss the racial and economic inequities that
affected the lives of other Brooklynites. These disparities
included public health measures and lack of access to basic
necessities of urban living. The book also addresses the cultural
and economic shifts that took place at the start of the pandemic
and contemplate how those forces will impact on future urban life,
asking what the "new normal" of business, entertainment, education,
housing, and work will look like locally and globally. This richly
illustrated book offers an invaluable local study of the impact of
the pandemic on ordinary people in Brooklyn. As such, it will be of
great interest to students and researchers in the humanities and
social sciences.
Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and
otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work
within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity
are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them
in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced
by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas
of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a
visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document
and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing
cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing
the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and
national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of
various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global
forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested
terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.
Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass
media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing'
and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity,
diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to
sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in
visual methods and urban spaces.
Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and
otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work
within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity
are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them
in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced
by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas
of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a
visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document
and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing
cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing
the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and
national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of
various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global
forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested
terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.
Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass
media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing'
and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity,
diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to
sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in
visual methods and urban spaces.
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of
gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad
question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities,
neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In
this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors
contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and
displacement in the abstract and "on-the-ground." Chapters examine,
among other topics, social class, development, im/migration,
housing, race relations, political economy, power dynamics,
inequality, displacement, social segregation, homogenization, urban
policy, planning, and design. The qualitative methodologies used in
each chapter-which emphasize ethnographic, participatory, and
visual approaches that interrogate the representation of
gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass media-are
themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying gentrification
and its consequences worldwide.
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of
gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad
question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities,
neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In
this first volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors
from various academic disciplines provide individual case studies
on gentrification and displacement from around the globe: chapters
cover the United States of America, Spain, Brazil, Sweden, Japan,
Korea, Morocco, Great Britain, Canada, France, Finland, Peru,
India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Syria, and Iceland. The qualitative
methodologies used in each chapter-which emphasize ethnographic,
participatory, and visual approaches that interrogate the
representation of gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass
media-are themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying
gentrification and its consequences worldwide.
In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists,
sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup
relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without
reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific
characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social,
and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. In
these 'glocal' regards, the authors demonstrate how city images,
borders, and social processes such as migration, tourism, and local
development must be seen in broader contexts. The contributors
examine them through the lenses of foreign investment, migration,
and history. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and
employs a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological
approaches. Contributors' multidisciplinary expertise and insights
about spaces and places are applied to nine unique cities across
three continents.
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of
gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad
question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities,
neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In
this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors
contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and
displacement in the abstract and "on-the-ground." Chapters examine,
among other topics, social class, development, im/migration,
housing, race relations, political economy, power dynamics,
inequality, displacement, social segregation, homogenization, urban
policy, planning, and design. The qualitative methodologies used in
each chapter-which emphasize ethnographic, participatory, and
visual approaches that interrogate the representation of
gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass media-are
themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying gentrification
and its consequences worldwide.
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of
gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad
question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities,
neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In
this first volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors
from various academic disciplines provide individual case studies
on gentrification and displacement from around the globe: chapters
cover the United States of America, Spain, Brazil, Sweden, Japan,
Korea, Morocco, Great Britain, Canada, France, Finland, Peru,
India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Syria, and Iceland. The qualitative
methodologies used in each chapter-which emphasize ethnographic,
participatory, and visual approaches that interrogate the
representation of gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass
media-are themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying
gentrification and its consequences worldwide.
This series addresses the major subject areas of urban sociology,
ethnic and minority groups within the city, social network of urban
residents, location of retail and industrial activities within the
metropolitan complex, decline of the central cities and emergence
of suburban lifestyles, and the core question of community
integration itself.
*Volume 8 includes case studies from Toronto, Japan, Bulgaria, and
other geographic locations with ethnic minority populations
*Addresses the major concepts of urban sociology while including
perspectives from diverse locations
*Online availability via ScienceDirect
American cities are today more diverse than at any time in history.
The continuing flow of new immigrants has settled in urban and
suburban areas that have undergone visible change in population and
neighborhoods. While Chicago long served as the convenient and
well-studied model for urban sociology, for many Los Angeles has
become the focal point for study of the postmodern heteropolis. It
is interesting that for sociologists New York City, especially its
outer boroughs such as Brooklyn and Queens, has largely remained
outside the intense gaze of urban study. As the nation's largest
city New York has long had a mosaic of social worlds comparable to
that of Chicago, and displays an ethnic diversity comparable to
that of Los Angeles. Because New York City presents us with a less
easily recognizable mosaic and a more free form scattering of
ethnic social spaces, it is seldom thought of as a pre or
post-modern "model" for other metropolitan areas. The eight
articles presented in this volume represent both older and
established ethnic and racial communities as well as new and
emerging groups in New York City. These include Italian
communities, African American, as well as newer Jewish, Caribbean,
and Asian groups.
In this book, the authors "revisit" two iconic Brooklyn
neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and
Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since
the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street
describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a
focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies
used to resist and promote neighborhood change and conclude with an
analysis of the ways in which these neighborhoods contribute to
current images and trends in Brooklyn. This book contributes to a
better understanding of the elevated status of Brooklyn as a global
city and destination place.
In this book, the authors "revisit" two iconic Brooklyn
neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and
Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since
the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street
describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a
focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies
used to resist and promote neighborhood change and conclude with an
analysis of the ways in which these neighborhoods contribute to
current images and trends in Brooklyn. This book contributes to a
better understanding of the elevated status of Brooklyn as a global
city and destination place.
Cities play an important role in contemporary American culture as
sites of commerce, trade, entertainment, and the arts. We can learn
a lot about what Americans believe and how they act upon those
beliefs by looking at the ways our cultural dramas are continually
played out on the city's stage. The complexity and sheer variety of
urban experiences can be overwhelming. In clear prose, the essays
in this volume decipher some of these experiences and offer fresh
analytical insights. Without relying on one theoretical,
disciplinary, or ideological framework, the contributors
collectively explore the city as an identity marker, an artist's
muse, a cultural hybrid, and a place many call home. Issues related
to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and power are present in
American cities and are therefore present within this collection.
Most importantly, these essays acknowledge the hard work required
to keep something as large and complex as a city running. The
authors show how people practice culture and the ways that culture
is expressed through myths, rituals, images, and places.
Cities play an important role in contemporary American culture as
sites of commerce, trade, entertainment, and the arts. We can learn
a lot about what Americans believe and how they act upon those
beliefs by looking at the ways our cultural dramas are continually
played out on the city's stage. The complexity and sheer variety of
urban experiences can be overwhelming. In clear prose, the essays
in this volume decipher some of these experiences and offer fresh
analytical insights. Without relying on one theoretical,
disciplinary, or ideological framework, the contributors
collectively explore the city as an identity marker, an artist's
muse, a cultural hybrid, and a place many call home. Issues related
to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and power are present in
American cities and are therefore present within this collection.
Most importantly, these essays acknowledge the hard work required
to keep something as large and complex as a city running. The
authors show how people practice culture and the ways that culture
is expressed through myths, rituals, images, and places.
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