{"id":4899,"date":"2020-02-28T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:42:10","slug":"thats-the-word-for-it-gentrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/thats-the-word-for-it-gentrification\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s the Word for It: Gentrification"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gentrification is a controversial term when it comes to urban planning and has an unpleasant connotation.\u00a0 When more well-off people move into poorer areas, the existing demographic is upturned and development occurs, mostly at the expense of the people who live there already. So here, development is one-sided and even hypocritical. The word gentrification comes from the Old French word\u00a0genterise<\/i>, which has to do with ‘people of gentle birth’.<\/p>\n

Some examples of the word gentrification in literature:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification<\/strong> that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenising, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness, of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feeling – depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage – are simply a consequence of unsettled chemistry, a problem to be fixed, rather than a response to structural injustice or, on the other hand, to the native texture of embodiment, of doing time, as David Wojnarowicz memorably put it, in a rented body, with all the attendant grief and frustration that entails.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Olivia Laing,\u00a0<\/span>The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is ironic, in the manner of a dystopian nightmare, that an advanced capitalist empire which is founded on genocide and slavery, which still functions as the global police, which has an armed population, which routinely violates international human rights, which has the largest known military industrial complex in the world, which is the world\u2019s largest producer of pornography, has also produced a saccharine ideology in which \u2018positive thinking\u2019 functions as a form of psychological gentrification<\/strong>. And it is not insignificant that the neoliberal lie that one is 110% responsible for one\u2019s life\u2014first powerfully encapsulated by the \u2018alternative\u2019 conservative thinker Louise Hay, and more recently echoed by Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now (1997\/2005)\u2014is directed at women. Today, gendered victim-blaming has become a form of upwardly mobile common sense \u2018wisdom\u2019. Now victim blaming is expressed by voices that sound soothing, wise, calm, above all, loving.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Abigail Bray,\u00a0<\/span>Misogyny Re-Loaded<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gentrification is a controversial term when it comes to urban planning and has an unpleasant connotation.\u00a0 When more well-off people move into poorer areas, the existing demographic is upturned and development occurs, mostly at the expense of the people who live there already. So here, development is one-sided and even hypocritical. The word gentrification comes … Continue reading “That’s the Word for It: Gentrification”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[251],"tags":[371,370,372],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1h1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4719,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/thats-the-word-for-it-garniture\/","url_meta":{"origin":4899,"position":0},"title":"That\u2019s the Word For it: Garniture","date":"August 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Garniture is a fancy word for accessory and deals with embellishments and decoration. 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