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Successful Protect-Community Discourse: Spatiality and Politics in Chicago's Pilsen Neighborhood

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  • David Wilson
  • Jared Wouters
  • Dennis Grammenos

    (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, 500 N St Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, USA)

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Protect-community movements across America are alive and well. The authors examine one such movement in a Chicago working-class neighborhood—Pilsen. They focus on a discourse oppositional to gentrification that has effectively mobilized space and historicity to speak its truths. The results reveal that diverse mental spaces were constructed and used in discourse to offer two critical constructions: positive resident identities, and developers as villains. Such spaces, grounding medium in the discourse, framed, organized, and illuminated these constructions. This visual rhetoric, Henri Lefebvre's representation of spaces, was a key ingredient in discourse. With actual and threatened opposition to gentrification, many developers formed a sense of a ‘ready-to-rumble neighborhood’. Fears of virulent street tactics (that is, harassment of gentrifiers) most discouraged developers because they could make development projects risky.

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  • David Wilson & Jared Wouters & Dennis Grammenos, 2004. "Successful Protect-Community Discourse: Spatiality and Politics in Chicago's Pilsen Neighborhood," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 36(7), pages 1173-1190, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:36:y:2004:i:7:p:1173-1190
    DOI: 10.1068/a36121
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    1. David Ley & Cory Dobson, 2008. "Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(12), pages 2471-2498, November.
    2. Winifred Curran, 2018. "‘Mexicans love red’ and other gentrification myths: Displacements and contestations in the gentrification of Pilsen, Chicago, USA," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(8), pages 1711-1728, June.
    3. John Betancur, 2011. "Gentrification and Community Fabric in Chicago," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 48(2), pages 383-406, February.

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