“Please Don’t Take This”: Rural Gentrification, Symbolic Capital, and Housing Insecurity
“Please Don’t Take This”: Rural Gentrification, Symbolic Capital, and Housing Insecurity
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“请不要接受这个”：农村绅士化、象征资本和住房不安全
DOI：
10.1093/socpro/spab041
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Jennifer Sherman
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作者：
Jennifer Sherman
基于84次深度访谈和10个月的人种学田野调查，本文研究了士绅化和住房短缺对美国西部农村社区的影响。富裕的外来者迁入高舒适度的社区，推高了住房成本，使新来的人比长期居住的当地人更有特权。这篇论文考察了社会不平等对社区最弱势居民的影响，探索了住房不安全的再现方式，以及正式和非正式基础设施如何未能为低收入居民提供足够的住房选择。虽然收入是决定个人或家庭是否有能力获得稳定和负担得起的住房的一个重要因素，但包括社会和道德资本在内的象征性资源也被发现发挥着重要作用。文章描述了这些资源发挥作用的机制，说明了缺乏财政、社会和道德资本是如何使居民在购买住房的斗争中处于不利地位的。报告发现，在外来移民导致高度不平等的农村背景下，被社会边缘化的农村居民面临一系列独特的挑战和不利因素，这些挑战和不利因素加剧了住房的不稳定，加深了排斥和不稳定。
Based on 84 in-depth interviews and ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines the impacts of gentrification and housing shortages in a rural Western U.S. community. In-migration by wealthy outsiders to the high-amenity community has driven up housing costs, privileging newcomers over longtime locals. The paper examines the impacts of social inequality on the community’s most vulnerable residents, exploring the ways in which housing insecurity is reproduced and how formal and informal infrastructures fail to provide adequate housing options for low-income residents. While income is a significant factor in determining an individual or family’s ability to access stable and affordable housing, symbolic resources, including social and moral capital are also found to play significant roles. The paper describes the mechanisms by which these resources come into play, illustrating how a lack of financial, social, and moral capital disadvantages residents in their struggles to procure housing. It finds that in a rural context where in-migration leads to high inequality, socially marginalized rural residents face a distinctive set of challenges and disadvantages that magnify housing instability and deepen exclusion and precariousness.