Bourdieu, rational action and the time-space strategy of gentrification |
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Authors: | Gary Bridge |
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Affiliation: | Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TZ email: gary.bridge@bristol.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This paper proposes gentrification as an example of class habitus adjusting to a new field via a time-space strategy that involves conscious rational coordination of class agents on a new aesthetic 'focal point'. This approach suggests: (1) a much greater role for conscious rational processes in both the intentional and intuitive processes of class reproduction; (2) an understanding via gentrification of the symbolic significance of time-space in class processes; (3) the significance of individual class agents in the process of gentrification; (4) a view of gentrification that gives greater prominence to working-class taste and habitus. |
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Keywords: | habitus gentrification intentionality rational action time-space-strategies |
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