Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Contributors
Introduction: The Dialectic Role of Art in Late Neoliberal Urbanism
	References
Part I: Art's Conflicting Relationship to Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century
1. Gentrification and the Critique of the Contemporary Urban Dream-World
	Introduction
	A Libidinal Map through Gentrified Space
	A Place with a Trace
	Places of Labor
	Reading Desire with Walter Benjamin
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2. Proximal Disruptions: Artists, Arts-Led Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Oakland, California
	Introduction
	Trouble on the Frontier
	From Working-Class Community to Advanced Marginality in West Oakland
	Social Relationships in a Disinvested West Oakland Neighborhood
	Art Murmur and First Friday Street Festival in Uptown
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
3. Arts, Culture and Neoliberalism: Instrumentalization and Resistance in the Case of Marseille
	Introduction
	When the Instrumentalization of Arts and Creativity in Urban Policy Leads to the Neoliberal City
	La Joliette: The Ex-Nihilo Creation of a New Creative Core Under Control
	Le Vieux-Port: A Neoliberal Metamorphosis Linked with the MP 2013 Cultural Event
	Resurgence and Permanence of Artistic Resistance Movements Defending a New Right to the Creative City
	Le Panier: An Open-Air Street Art Gallery Against Gentrification
	La Plaine: Struggling Against an Urban Planification Project through Street Art Protest
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part II: Alternative Voices, Visualities and Performances Against Gentrification
4. A Listening Against Gentrification: Ultra-Red in Boyle Heights and Elephant & Castle
	Red Lines (Introduction)
	Structural Adjustments
	An Anti-Gentrification Library
	Just a Shopping Center?
	Whose Regeneration?
	Notes
	References
5. Representing the Anti-Gentrification Resistance: The Role of Two Artists in a Retail Market in London
	Introduction
	From Reportage to Empowerment
	From Anti-Gentrification Resistance Per Se to the Role of Catalysts for Resistance
	From the Structural Limits of These Brands of Resistance to a Redefinition of the Anti-Gentrification Resistance
	References
6. Enacting the "Right to the Creative City" in Berlin
	Introduction
	Creative City Marketing and Biopolitical Urbanism
	The Nexus Between "Culturalization" and Gentrification Revisited
	The Occupation of Berlin's Volksbühne as an Enactment of the "Right to the Creative City"
	Conclusion
	References
Part III: Community Building in the Gentrified Urban Space
7. The Urban Art Mapping Project: Mapping Art, Narrative and Community in St. Paul, Minnesota
	Introduction
	The Midway Neighborhood
	Urban Art in Midway
	Midway Murals and Neighborhood Renewal
	The Murals
	Neighborhood Survey and Spatial Analysis
	Ethnographic Interviews and Community Collaboration
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
8. Indigenous Cultural Resurgence, Hotel Murals and Neocolonial Urbanism
	Introduction
	Contested City Spaces, Art-Led Gentrification and Indigenous Creative Productivity
	Visual Sovereignty, Political Aesthetics and Resistance Movements
	Powwow Ideologies, Intertribal Mediations and Cross-Border Territories
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
9. "Mapping the Old City": Street Art, Urban Resistance and Community Building in Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014-2018
	Introduction
	"Mapping the Old City:" Analysis and Interpretation
		Astraki Strikes and Her Early Work
	Murals in Nicosia and the Context of "Mapping the Old City"
		North Cluster (5 Works)
		Central Cluster (7 Works)
		South Cluster (3 Works)
	Conclusion
	References
	Appendix
Index