Neoliberal multiculturalism in Dallas: The discursive foundations of diversity-led gentrification in an aspiring U.S. global city

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-01-29 DOI:10.1177/0308518X231152258

Richard Kirk

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This article investigates the relationship between neoliberal multiculturalism and gentrification using a case study of the forthcoming Dallas International District. Informed by a conceptual framework considering neoliberal urbanism, the (aspiring) global city, and racial–ethnic identity, this article attempts to reveal the dominant discourses that lay the foundation for gentrification in the Dallas International District, an urban renewal project planned to be built atop a former freedmen's town. Rather than investigating gentrification after it has taken root in a specific location, this work investigates the discursive foundations of gentrification before it takes hold. This is accomplished through a discourse analysis of interviews with Dallas public officials, developers, and community members, as well as web sources. On the basis of these data, it is concluded that plans to redevelop the area foreshadow the gentrification of an existing Black and Latino population and that this planned gentrification is permeated by neoliberal discourses about multiculturalism that are entrenched in Dallas’ desires to transform itself into a global, world-class city.

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达拉斯的新自由主义多元文化主义:一个有抱负的美国全球城市中多元化主导的中产阶级化的话语基础

本文以即将到来的达拉斯国际区为例，探讨了新自由主义多元文化主义与士绅化之间的关系。通过考虑新自由主义城市主义、(有抱负的)全球城市和种族-民族认同的概念框架，本文试图揭示为达拉斯国际区中产阶级化奠定基础的主导话语，这是一个城市更新项目，计划建立在一个前自由民城镇之上。这项工作不是在中产阶级化在特定地点扎根之后进行调查，而是在中产阶级化站稳脚跟之前调查其话语基础。这是通过对达拉斯政府官员、开发人员和社区成员以及网络资源的访谈进行话语分析来完成的。基于这些数据，我们得出结论，重新开发该地区的计划预示着现有黑人和拉丁裔人口的中产阶级化，这种计划中的中产阶级化渗透着关于多元文化主义的新自由主义话语，这些话语根植于达拉斯将自己转变为一个全球性的世界级城市的愿望中。

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期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.

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