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EN STUDIE AV GENTRIFIERING MED EXEMPEL FRÅN SÖDERMALM I STOCKHOLM OCH VESTERBRO I KÖPENHAMN

Holst, Anja LU (2018) SANK02 20161
Social Anthropology
Abstract
A hot topic subject in a youth's everyday life and the overall society is the rising housing prices and raised rent. It is a reality that housing shortages and high housing costs are one of today's biggest youth problems. How come that housing becomes popular in just specific areas? What is the resident's outcome of that places suddenly get a higher attraction? Gentrification is a politically charged word and is a term that is strongly associated with the renewal of areas in metropolitan areas around the world. The purpose of this essay is to show how gentrification is acted’ out, through eight semi-structured interviews with Swedish and Danish inhabitants living in a gentrified area. The essay contributes to the overall literature with... (More)
A hot topic subject in a youth's everyday life and the overall society is the rising housing prices and raised rent. It is a reality that housing shortages and high housing costs are one of today's biggest youth problems. How come that housing becomes popular in just specific areas? What is the resident's outcome of that places suddenly get a higher attraction? Gentrification is a politically charged word and is a term that is strongly associated with the renewal of areas in metropolitan areas around the world. The purpose of this essay is to show how gentrification is acted’ out, through eight semi-structured interviews with Swedish and Danish inhabitants living in a gentrified area. The essay contributes to the overall literature with the research of illustrating how a local environment change sphere and diminish due to a class, with an according to Bourdieu’s theory - a higher economic capital, settles in a person's ‘home’ area. (Less)
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author
Holst, Anja LU
supervisor
organization
course
SANK02 20161
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Gentrification, Early gentrifiers, Cultural capital, Economic capital, Social capital, Symbolic capital, Creative Class
language
Swedish
id
8938468
date added to LUP
2018-04-12 13:55:38
date last changed
2018-04-12 13:55:38
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  abstract     = {{A hot topic subject in a youth's everyday life and the overall society is the rising housing prices and raised rent. It is a reality that housing shortages and high housing costs are one of today's biggest youth problems. How come that housing becomes popular in just specific areas? What is the resident's outcome of that places suddenly get a higher attraction? Gentrification is a politically charged word and is a term that is strongly associated with the renewal of areas in metropolitan areas around the world. The purpose of this essay is to show how gentrification is acted’ out, through eight semi-structured interviews with Swedish and Danish inhabitants living in a gentrified area. The essay contributes to the overall literature with the research of illustrating how a local environment change sphere and diminish due to a class, with an according to Bourdieu’s theory - a higher economic capital, settles in a person's ‘home’ area.}},
  author       = {{Holst, Anja}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{EN STUDIE AV GENTRIFIERING MED EXEMPEL FRÅN SÖDERMALM I STOCKHOLM OCH VESTERBRO I KÖPENHAMN}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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