Of Dogs and Men

The Making of Spatial Boundaries in a Gentrifying Neighborhood

Bibliographic Data

ID8105631
AuthorsSylvie Tissot (University of Paris 8, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume10
Issue3
Pages265-284
Publication date2011-08-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity and Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-6040.2011.01377.x
OpenAlexW2064748673
LanguageEN
Citations received67
References cited45

This article examines the role of animals in the processes of social inclusion and exclusion in a gentrifying neighborhood. Residents who move into mixed–income, inner–city neighborhoods generally express a taste for diversity while simultaneously attempting to distance themselves from “undesirables.” Dogs allow newcomers to manage these tensions. The urge to control public spaces leads to the creation of new and quasi–exclusionary places, such as dog runs. At the same time, in the process of creating them, residents produce the neighborhood's image as a “diverse community.” Based on fieldwork conducted in a neighborhood of a large city in the northeastern United States, the author uses a wide range of discourse settings and genres to demonstrate that discursive production is part–and–parcel of the process of making places

Diversity (politics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Gentrification · Geography · Inclusion (mineral · Political science · Social exclusion · Sociology · Taste · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art

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