Authenti-City: Heritage, Hipsterfication and the Changing Aesthetics of Consumption in the City of York

真实的城市：约克市的遗产、时尚和不断变化的消费美学

• 批准号: 1943146
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1943146
• 关键词: Authenti; City; Heritage; Hipsterfication; Changing

The intention of my project is to explore the ways in which retail gentrification has changed the aesthetic character of the city of York. By focusing on the proliferation of independent businesses that characterise the ideals of 'hipsterfication', I intend to investigate the ways in which notions of heritage, authenticity and nostalgia have been appropriated into a particular aesthetic of consumption in the city. By drawing upon the work of Lorentzen and van Heur, I will argue that a specific cultural and political economy has developed in York as a small city, and that the proliferation of the 'hipster' as urban type has instigated a subtle yet visible aesthetic and cultural transformation in the city, with implications for community and consumption. Although I will begin an initial investigation of the city in the first year of study, I will dedicate the majority of this time to the completion of my literature review, ensuring that my project has a firm yet innovative theoretical grounding. During the second year of my project, I will cultivate a sample of images that illustrates the evolution of York's streets from the 1990s to the present, with a particular focus on areas with high concentrations of local and independent businesses. These images will be gathered from a variety of sources, incorporating my own photographic record with images from the York Explore Archive, and news sources such as the York Press Archive. I will use my job at Bruks Coffee Shop as a means of conducting field work that provides me with local knowledge pertaining to the transformation of the city, and will use the rapport that I have with regular customers to gain access to a sample of participants for the interviews that I intend to conduct. This stage will consist of 30 interviews, in which I will make use of photo elicitation to supplement my questions and to prompt succinct articulations from my participants. I will then, in my final year, compile the data that I have gathered into a coherent, vibrant thesis that explores the impact of new forms of aesthetic consumption on the city. I believe that this project is useful as it provides an insight into the development of new economic and cultural networks in the city of York, and considers the ways in which heritage plays an integral role in the production of its social space. Therefore I believe that my project has potential, not only in terms of contributing to the CUrb project, and expanding the relatively narrow literature on small cities, but also as a prospective collaborative effort with initiatives in York itself, such as The Joseph Rowntree Trust. This is due to the way in which I intend to explore inclusive potential of new forms of growth in the city, with a focus on notions of conviviality and community as exemplified by areas of the city, such as Fossgate.

我的项目的目的是探索零售高档化如何改变约克市的审美特征。通过关注以“时髦化”为特征的独立企业的激增，我打算研究如何将传统、真实性和怀旧的概念融入到城市的特定消费美学中。通过借鉴洛伦岑和范赫尔的著作，我认为约克作为一个小城市已经发展出了一种特定的文化和政治经济，而“时髦”作为城市类型的扩散已经在城市中引发了微妙而明显的审美和文化转变，对社区和消费产生了影响。虽然我将在学习的第一年开始对这座城市进行初步调查，但我将把大部分时间用来完成我的文献综述，以确保我的项目有坚实而创新的理论基础。在项目的第二年，我将制作一个图像样本，展示约克街道从 20 世纪 90 年代至今的演变，特别关注当地和独立企业高度集中的地区。这些图像将从各种来源收集，将我自己的摄影记录与来自约克探索档案馆和约克新闻档案馆等新闻来源的图像结合起来。我将利用我在布鲁克斯咖啡店的工作作为进行实地工作的一种手段，这为我提供了有关城市转型的当地知识，并将利用我与老顾客的融洽关系来获得我打算进行的采访的参与者样本。这个阶段将包括 30 次访谈，其中我将利用照片启发来补充我的问题并促使参与者简洁地表达。然后，在最后一年，我将把收集到的数据整理成一篇连贯、充满活力的论文，探讨新形式的审美消费对城市的影响。我相信这个项目是有用的，因为它提供了对约克市新的经济和文化网络的发展的洞察，并考虑了遗产在其社会空间的生产中发挥不可或缺的作用的方式。因此，我相信我的项目具有潜力，不仅可以为 CUrb 项目做出贡献，扩大有关小城市的相对狭窄的文献，而且可以作为与约克本身的倡议（例如 Joseph Rowntree Trust）的前瞻性合作努力。这是因为我打算探索城市新增长形式的包容性潜力，重点关注福斯盖特等城市地区所体现的欢乐和社区概念。