A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity
A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity
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永不改变的社区：绅士化、社会保护和对真实性的追求
DOI：
10.7208/chicago/9780226076645.001.0001
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Japonica Brown–Saracino
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作者：
Japonica Brown–Saracino
老社区的新来者通常被认为具有破坏性，破坏了使这个地方变得特别和有吸引力的一切。但正如《永不改变的街区》所展示的那样，许多中产阶级人士寻求保留新居的真实当地风味，而不是无情地改造它们。 Japonica Brown-Saracino 利用对四个不同社区（芝加哥的安德森维尔和阿盖尔社区以及新英格兰城镇普罗温斯敦和德累斯顿）的人种学研究，描绘了一幅丰富多彩的肖像，描绘了新老居民，从富有的同性恋房主到葡萄牙渔民，如何看待中产阶级化。布朗-萨拉西诺发现，新一代中产阶级化者对自己在这一过程中的作用表现出敏锐的自我意识，并致力于将某些长期居民的中产阶级化风险降至最低。在瞬息万变的时代，他们珍惜独特而脆弱的事物，无论是破旧的房屋、两百年的风景，还是深深扎根于他们居住地的人们。布朗-萨拉西诺的这项引人入胜的研究与许多长期以来关于中产阶级化的假设相悖，揭示了关于真实性、地点和变化的信念在截然不同的社区的社会、政治和经济生活中以意想不到的方式发挥作用。
Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as "A Neighborhood That Never Changes" demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities - the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden - Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification. The new breed of gentrifiers, Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute self-consciousness about their role in the process and works to minimize gentrification's risks for certain longtime residents. In an era of rapid change, they cherish the unique and fragile, whether a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year-old landscape, or the presence of people deeply rooted in the place they live. Contesting many long-standing assumptions about gentrification, Brown-Saracino's absorbing study reveals the unexpected ways beliefs about authenticity, place, and change play out in the social, political, and economic lives of very different neighborhoods.