A Recipe for Gentrification : : Food, Power, and Resistance in the City /

A Recipe for Gentrification : : Food, Power, and Resistance in the City / / ed. by Alison Hope Alkon, Joshua Sbicca, Yuki Kato.

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How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist itFrom hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
MitwirkendeR:
Alkon, Alison Hope,
Aptekar, Sofya,
Becker, Emily,
Bosco, Fernando J.,
Broom, Pamela Arnette,
Cadji, Yahya Josh,
Glennie, Charlotte,
Glowa, Michelle,
Hassberg, Analena Hope,
Havlik, Brooke,
Hyde, Zachary,
Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale,
Kato, Yuki,
Lal, Prita,
Lindemann, Justine,
Martin, Nina,
McClintock, Nathan,
Moore, Frances,
Myers, Justin Sean,
Roman-Alcalá, Antonio,
Sarmiento, Eric,
Sbicca, Joshua,
HerausgeberIn:
Alkon, Alison Hope,
Kato, Yuki,
Sbicca, Joshua,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 26 hts / 4 t / 4 figs / 6 m
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Development, Displacement, and Dining
  • Part I: Dining Downtown: Food Retail and Urban Development
  • 1. The Taste of Gentrification: Difference and Exclusion on San Diego’s Urban Food Frontier
  • 2. Savior Entrepreneurs and Demon Developers: The Role of Gourmet Restaurants and Bars in the Redevelopment of Durham
  • 3. Making Sense of “Local Food,” Urban Revitalization, and Gentrification in Oklahoma City
  • Part II: Ripe for Growth: Alternative Food Systems
  • 4. The Urban Agriculture Fix: Navigating Development and Displacement in Denver
  • 5. From the Holy Trinity to Microgreens: Gentrification Redefining Local Foodways in Post- Katrina New Orleans
  • 6. The Cost of Low- Hanging Fruit? An Orchard, a Nonprofit, and Changing Community in Portland
  • 7. Gardens in the Growth Machine: Seattle’s P- Patch Program and the Pursuit of Permanent Community Gardens
  • Part III: Uneven Alliances: Contesting Gentrification from Within and Without
  • 8. Diverse Politics, Difficult Contradictions: Gentrification and the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance
  • 9. “Ethical” Gentrification as a Preemptive Strategy: Social Enterprise, Restaurants, and Resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
  • 10. “You Can’t Evict Community Power”: Food Justice and Eviction Defense in Oakland
  • Part IV: Growing Resistance: Community- Based Strategies
  • 11. Community Gardens and Gentrification in New York City: The Uneven Politics of Facilitation, Accommodation, and Resistance
  • 12. No Se Vende: Resisting Gentrification on Chicago’s Paseo Boricua through Food
  • 13. Black Urban Growers and the Land Question in Cleveland: Externalities of Gentrification
  • 14. Citified Sovereignty: Cultivating Autonomy in South Los Angeles
  • A Conflicted Conclusion: Seeing and Contesting Gentrification through Food
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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