Gentrifying Practices Affecting Youths’ Habitats
(2022) SGEM08 20221Department of Human Geography
- Abstract (Swedish)
- While Sweden falls short in integrating youths growing up in segregated areas, these disadvantaged neighborhoods are more frequently imposed to profit-driven strategies that result in gentrification. This thesis aims to uncover how gentrification affects the lived experience that youths from disadvantaged areas have of their habitat. Choosing the case of Järva, Stockholm, the ways youths perceive that gentrification is manifesting itself, their perceptions of the threat of gentrification, and their ways of coping with this threat, are scrutinized. Gentrification is viewed as a phenomenon that exacerbates class-inequalities. Sweden is getting increasingly segregated and simultaneously gentrification poses a threat of reproducing inequal... (More)
- While Sweden falls short in integrating youths growing up in segregated areas, these disadvantaged neighborhoods are more frequently imposed to profit-driven strategies that result in gentrification. This thesis aims to uncover how gentrification affects the lived experience that youths from disadvantaged areas have of their habitat. Choosing the case of Järva, Stockholm, the ways youths perceive that gentrification is manifesting itself, their perceptions of the threat of gentrification, and their ways of coping with this threat, are scrutinized. Gentrification is viewed as a phenomenon that exacerbates class-inequalities. Sweden is getting increasingly segregated and simultaneously gentrification poses a threat of reproducing inequal chances for youths from disadvantaged areas.
Rooted in Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space, this thesis utilizes the concept of The Urban, Urban Ideology, and Habiting. Consequently, space is conceptualized as something constructed, practiced, and inscribed. Operationalizing the theories and analyzing the gathered data through an abductive approach, 4 themes were identified where people expressed their habitat gets affected by gentrification: housing, amenities, public spaces, and the general perception of change. The thesis finds that inhabitants from Järva perceive top-down planning inspired by neoliberalism, as inadequate and emphasize the importance of facilitating local knowledge and bottom-up initiatives. Based off this finding, I argue that youths implicitly express the need for a more dialectic understanding of what shapes the needs of their habitats and the urban at large.
Centering the lived experiences of youths, this thesis investigates an under-researched group within gentrification literature and contributes by generating perspectives on how youths perceive their local culture, on which gentrification has a negative impact. By uncovering which aspects youths value of their habitats and the different ways they perceive these are affected by gentrification, this study attempts to fill a gap in current studies. This requires a thinking that centers youths’ perceptions which encourages viewing disadvantaged communities as a heterogenous group with varying perceptions on how gentrification forms a threat to their habitats. (Less)
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- author
- Koetsier, Hugo LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- A case study of youths’ perceptions of the threat of gentrification in Järva, Stockholm
- course
- SGEM08 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Gentrification, Lived Experience, Critical Phenomenology, Renoviction, Housing Justice, Habitat, Youths, Järva
- language
- English
- id
- 9098635
- date added to LUP
- 2022-08-30 15:02:04
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- 2022-08-30 15:02:04
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abstract = {{While Sweden falls short in integrating youths growing up in segregated areas, these disadvantaged neighborhoods are more frequently imposed to profit-driven strategies that result in gentrification. This thesis aims to uncover how gentrification affects the lived experience that youths from disadvantaged areas have of their habitat. Choosing the case of Järva, Stockholm, the ways youths perceive that gentrification is manifesting itself, their perceptions of the threat of gentrification, and their ways of coping with this threat, are scrutinized. Gentrification is viewed as a phenomenon that exacerbates class-inequalities. Sweden is getting increasingly segregated and simultaneously gentrification poses a threat of reproducing inequal chances for youths from disadvantaged areas.
Rooted in Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space, this thesis utilizes the concept of The Urban, Urban Ideology, and Habiting. Consequently, space is conceptualized as something constructed, practiced, and inscribed. Operationalizing the theories and analyzing the gathered data through an abductive approach, 4 themes were identified where people expressed their habitat gets affected by gentrification: housing, amenities, public spaces, and the general perception of change. The thesis finds that inhabitants from Järva perceive top-down planning inspired by neoliberalism, as inadequate and emphasize the importance of facilitating local knowledge and bottom-up initiatives. Based off this finding, I argue that youths implicitly express the need for a more dialectic understanding of what shapes the needs of their habitats and the urban at large.
Centering the lived experiences of youths, this thesis investigates an under-researched group within gentrification literature and contributes by generating perspectives on how youths perceive their local culture, on which gentrification has a negative impact. By uncovering which aspects youths value of their habitats and the different ways they perceive these are affected by gentrification, this study attempts to fill a gap in current studies. This requires a thinking that centers youths’ perceptions which encourages viewing disadvantaged communities as a heterogenous group with varying perceptions on how gentrification forms a threat to their habitats.}},
author = {{Koetsier, Hugo}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Gentrifying Practices Affecting Youths’ Habitats}},
year = {{2022}},
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