Seeing the blessings and beauty of real estate
Examining How Market Professionals' Lived Space Drives Abstract Space Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirella Landriscina (Social Sciences Department, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1060-1082 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2018.1535086 |
| OpenAlex | W2896842591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 54 |
This paper demonstrates the value of considering the lived experiences of abstract space makers as a way of exploring the micro-social and cultural dynamics buttressing capitalism’s domination over space. In-depth interviews with real estate professionals working in a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, reveal how they view real estate as a realm of refuge and opportunity, view their work as a type of service to others and how some reconcile their sympathetic observations of renters facing hardships. I also describe how their discourse demonstrates the power of orthodox economic concepts to mask how the real estate market works as a mechanism for the inequitable distribution of social resources. Studying real estate professionals’ lived space and discourse thus reveals some of the ways that capitalist spatial processes are reproduced as inevitable, acceptable and even needed aspects of urban life
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Economics · Linguistics · Real estate · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |