The Space for Class? On Class Analysis in the Study of Gentrification

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ID8962404
AuthorsGary Bridge (0000-0003-2156-4342, Centre for Policy Research, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume20
Issue2
Pages236-236
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/622434
OpenAlexW2001544582
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited16

ion (mode of production; social formation; conjuncture). Three critical moments of the realization of class relations are identified at the three levels of abstraction: between speculator-developers and all inner-urban residents as gentrification is 'sanctioned' as a form of revalorization; petit-bourgeois entrepreneurial and rentier activity within the social formation; and, exceptionally, class action between middle-class and working-class residents. A full appreciation of the multiple determinations of class on gentrification and the effect of residence on class constitution must incorporate labour-market and workplace relations as well as an expanded view of residence to encompass the whole metropolitan area. The complex and contradictory realizations of the class relation posited by this method of abstraction reveal a robustness and subtlety which make it a more a promising basis than recent non-essentialist contributions for the retheorization of class and space.ion: between speculator-developers and all inner-urban residents as gentrification is 'sanctioned' as a form of revalorization; petit-bourgeois entrepreneurial and rentier activity within the social formation; and, exceptionally, class action between middle-class and working-class residents. A full appreciation of the multiple determinations of class on gentrification and the effect of residence on class constitution must incorporate labour-market and workplace relations as well as an expanded view of residence to encompass the whole metropolitan area. The complex and contradictory realizations of the class relation posited by this method of abstraction reveal a robustness and subtlety which make it a more a promising basis than recent non-essentialist contributions for the retheorization of class and space. key words class analysis gentrification levels of abstraction latent structuration residence Lecturer, School for Advanced Urban Studies, Rodney Lodge, Grange Road, Bristol BS8 4EA revised manuscript received 30 June 1994

Class (philosophy · Class analysis · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance

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