her main gripe with gentrification discourse seems to be the over-emphasis on class which is sort of hard for me to wrap my head around because gentrification is, in fact, a class-structuring process. An interesting and thorough exploration of gentrification and its impacts with a focus on resisting it.

but i'm also not sure who is and the whole time i was reading this (over the last two days lol) i kept feeling like Kern was an outsider looking in, taking a very far away view of gentrification process and anti-gentrification activism.

Kern unmasks the direction cities are taking (globally), all battling for the dollars of the entitled, destroying what makes cities sing. Kern acknowledges intersectionality but her arguments often seem very silo'ed; it feels like she's comparing tomatoes to potatoes.

Kern examines the different power dynamics at play in gentrification (racism, settler colonialism, sexism, white supremacy, etc). Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies challenges a number of well-entrenched perspectives on gentrification from the anticapitalist left as well as the market-minded right…Kern’s book is thorough in its intersectionality. I loved this book, especially the timing of when I read it since I just taught gentrification the day I picked this book up. Que aunque no se ha puesto suficiente interés para documentarlo, teorizarlo y cuantificarlo, las victorias han sucedido. Los primeros 8 se dedican a explicar la gentrificación, desmitificar visiones comunes y establecer distintas relaciones que la impulsan.An insightful read on gentrification, capitalism, 'white privilege', and many things I haven't really thought about before, such as the gentrification of 'yoga', 'tattoos', and more. I like that the last two chapters mentioned some successful cases of battling gentrification and pointed out directions and grounded strategies of what we all can do, so that the book doesn’t fall into the trap of “there’s only critique but no constructive analysis. The myths are "Gentrification is Natural", "is about Taste, Money, Class, Physical Displacement", "is a Metaphor", and "is Inevitable". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).

I think that this book serves as a well-written and digestible introductory text into gentrification and the various factors that affect it. Each chapter contains solid examples of where, when, and why gentrification is appearing in communities, and what the impact is on each respective group. Kern tackles several "lies" people have told and also believe about gentrification and disproves them with copious evidence. Kern expertly weaves theory, concepts, and up-to-date debates about gentrification together, making it accessible not only to urban scholars but to general readers too. Rather, she argues, it is an continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land.Beyond the Yoga studio, farmer’s market and tattoo parlour, gentrification is more than a metaphor, but impacts the most vulnerable communities. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. At once a devastating critique of the limitations of established perspectives on gentrification and a convincing plea for an intersectional approach, this book offers sparklingly clear analysis and numerous possibilities for political action.

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies is a humane analysis of the many contributing and consequential factors of urban takeovers.Leslie currently lives in the territory of Mi’kmaqi in the town of Sackville, New Brunswick with her partner and their two senior cats. Some parts of the book (Gentrification is about taste, class, metaphor) were really enjoyable, otherwise I’ve found it unnecessarily long (even though it’s a short book), as the author keeps going around the same issues. Esta última parte sin duda es la más débil de todas, pues en la mejor de las tradiciones liberales, trata de sumar distintas perspectivas bajo una misma lucha dentro de los marcos del capitalismo.