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Our first guest of the season is one we’re all fans of: Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza!! Tanya joins us to talk about a new project that explores the gentrification of her hometown located in the outskirts of Washington D.C. How do we measure gentrification? And what markers do local residents perceive as signs of gentrification? (Expensive ramen shops, we’re looking at you!) Join us as we make sense of how structures promote “killing a neighborhood [to] make a profit.”

Keywords

Gentrification, Culture, Economics, Housing, Neighborhoods

Sources

Follow Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza on all platforms listed on this LinkTree
Tanya’s TEDx talk, “How to kill a neighborhood and make a profit”
Some Tanya’s many books here:
Tanya’s mapping of gentrification of Washington D.C. here!
The COVID-19 pandemic housing boom
“Why and where Chinese and buying real estate in Hawaii” from Pacific Business News
“Median price for a single family home on Oahu hit $992,500 in July” from Hawaii News Now
Dr. Amanda Huron’s work on limited-equity cooperatives
Dr. Brandi Summers’ Black in Place
Black Food Geographies by Dr. Ashante Reese
If you’re interested in gentrification, check out our previous episode SOC408 – Gentrification Through Food
Bezos and Branson are not astronauts, according to the FAA.

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The way neighborhoods are transformed as investors, capital, and newcomers arrive cannot be understood without talking about cafes, lattes, food security, avocado toast, and race. Dr. Alison Alkon and Dr. Joshua Sbicca join us this week to discuss how food is both a gentrifying force and gentrified itself. The conversation was initiated by a new edited volume by our guests (and Dr. Yuki Kato who could not make it) titled, A Recipe for Gentrification! Tune in to learn more about how neighborhood foodscapes change, and how these changes warrant sociological analysis. All you food and environmental justice peeps, this one’s for you!

http://thesocialbreakdown.libsyn.com/soc40-gentrification-through-food-guest-episode

Keywords

Food, gentrification, sociology, class, race, neighborhoods, urban, food justice, environmental, community gardens

Sources

Dr. Alison Alkon’s tweets can be found at @Aliehope.
- Also, check out her book Black, White, and Green!
Dr. Joshua Sbicca’s tweets can be found at @JoshSbicca.
- You can also check out his website here, as well as his book Food Justice Now!
Curious about what happens when a neighborhood gets gentrified? Read this article from the Atlantic.
The book that tipped off this convo, A Recipe for Gentrification, co-edited with Dr. Yuki Kato, can be found here:
- https://nyupress.org/9781479834433/a-recipe-for-gentrification/
- Be sure to use their 30% discount code: AVOTOAST30
Curious about the Back to the Land Movement ? Read here.
Pew Research has some information about demographic changes in suburban, urban, and rural communities.
What is Urban Farming? Here’s a good resource!
Redlining and Food Justice in America 2020.
Dr. Alkon mentioned Madeline Fairbain’s book on speculative capital food titled Fields of Gold.
Ellen mentioned Padma Lakshmi’s fantastic new Hulu food documentary series, Taste the Nation, which you can watch here if you have a Hulu subscription.
Dr. Sbicca recommended the book, Black Food Geographies by Ashante M. Reese.
Dr. Alkon recommended the organization Barcelona Lab of Environmental Justice and Sustainability.
Dr Sbicca also mentioned the program Planting Justice in California.

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