Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

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In this clear and smartly written book, Leslie Kern brings together some of the most recognizable and essential elements of urban gentrification, making this familiar and ubiquitous term strange, in the most effective and generative ways. Confronts gentrification with a multidimensional and intersectional critique, revealing the process of urban ‘improvement’ as an unending campaign of social exclusion and a biting metaphor for making money.

Por lo cuál difícilmente puede lograr tener las escalas de cambio para enfrentar un fenómeno que se presenta en muchas ciudades del planeta. Destacar que la finalidad de la autora es visibilizar que hay medios para luchar contra la gentrificación. I think the intersectionality should have been handled better in a book all about cultural power dynamics. Leslie currently lives in the territory of Mi’kmaqi in the town of Sackville, New Brunswick with her partner and their two senior cats.

Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment/women's and gender studies and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Often gentrification gets talked about in a binary way where there are good and bad actors, winners and losers. Mientras el noveno capítulo se enfoca en historias de cambio y adelantar una pequeña agenda política basada en el feminismo y lo queer, en el anti racismo y en una perspectiva decolonial. One of capitalism's main ruses, I feel, is convincing us we're on our own; the diminishment of 'us'. Inspired by the likes of Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin, urban scholar Leslie Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the gentrification crisis amid our current economic climate, based on class, race, gender, and sexuality.

I like that the last two chapters mentioned some successful cases of battling gentrification and pointed out directions and grounded strategies of what we all can do, so that the book doesn’t fall into the trap of “there’s only critique but no constructive analysis. and i think it actually does tenant organizing a disservice to pretend as if these concepts are separate. She examines the often invisible forces that shape urban neighbourhoods, including settler colonialism, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism and how city lovers can work together to turn the tide.

How can we convince someone a mom-and-pop restaurant is as important as the new eatery with 100 beers on tap? Leslie Kern, author of the best selling Feminist City, travels from Toronto, New York, London, Paris and San Francisco and scrutinises the myth and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times. Kern not only details the erosion of communities at the hands of local governments and developers, in the final chapter she discusses possible ways to fight back. Feminist geographer Leslie Kern shows how gentrification is a slow form of violence, a brutal displacement that is dangerously close to colonisation and social cleansing.