2023 Gentrification & Displacement Conference: Plenary Keynote with Sylvie Tissot

🎥 Overview
Sylvie Tissot is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris-8. Her research focuses on the intersection of class analysis and urban studies. Her Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity
in Boston’s South End (Verso, 2015) reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.

This plenary keynote occurred on October 26, 2023.

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 — Introduction
1:19 — Outlining A Class Power Analysis
5:30 — How to Define Gentrifiers: Key Questions
6:57 — Examples in Boston’s South End
12:50 — Appropriating Space through Control and Political Capital
23:08 — The Inventiveness of Gentrifiers
30:57 — Gentrification As A Form of Domination
35:09 — Conclusion
41:22 — Audience Q&A

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🏙️ About the 2023 Gentrification & Displacement Conference
“Gentrification & Displacement, what can we do about it? An international dialogue” was a global symposium on gentrification and displacement from October 26–28, 2023. This was the first international conference on gentrification studies in over 20 years—the last one was held in 2002 in Glasgow, UK. Since then, academic publications on gentrification have taken off massively, case studies have become more global, and new types of gentrification have emerged. Anti-gentrification activism has also increased and gotten more sophisticated globally.

Yet, gentrification and its associated problems endure for marginalized peoples in urban and rural areas and both formal and informal settlements worldwide. Rapidly rising commercial and residential costs, direct and indirect displacement, racial/ethnic cleansing, socio-cultural exclusion, and discrimination are the result. Bringing together academics, activists, and others, this conference examined real solutions: What can WE ALL do about gentrification and displacement?

This event was hosted by the Boston University Initiative on Cities and the Department of Sociology.

Conference website: https://sites.bu.edu/gentrification/