Gentrification Book Symposium

  • Starts: 11:00 am on Friday, November 1, 2024
  • Ends: 3:00 pm on Friday, November 1, 2024

This symposium will feature three new books by leaders in the field of gentrification: Tanya Golash-Boza’s Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, Richard Ocejo’s Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City, and Derek Hyra’s Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur. Critically, all three books dig deep into race and inequality in relation to gentrification in US cities. Where Golash-Boza and Hyra focus on the role of the state and its apparatus, Ocejo focuses on the role of gentrifiers, which we hope will generate new discussion on the production versus consumption arguments in gentrification studies but especially as they relate to race and racism in US cities.

Each author will present their books, followed by a critical discussion with key Boston University (Jessica Simes, Japonica Brown-Saracino) and wider Massachusetts (Mark Davidson) urbanists with expertise in these particular areas. This will be followed by a panel discussion with the authors on Crosscutting Themes: Critical Gentrification Studies Going Forwards, led by BU urbanist Darien Williams and MIT urbanist devin michelle bunten. The Chair/Moderator is Loretta Lees. Lunch will be provided.

Location:
Rajen Kilachand Center Colloquium Room, 1st Floor (610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215)
Link:
http://www.bu.edu/ioc/2024/10/01/critical-gentrification-studies-in-us-cities-a-book-symposium/