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Discourse and dystopia, American style

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This paper examines the recent growth in the popular media of new discourses of decline focused on the American suburb. This new discursive twist, which appropriates language traditionally reserved for inner cities, is rooted in both the city/suburb dialectic, which has long dominated American urbanism, and the empirical realities of the foreclosure crisis and changing geographies of poverty in the American metropolis. Scholars should be concerned about the rise of this new discourse, as it reinforces a dialectic long since outdated, roots decline in a particular geography rather than examining the root causes of the crisis, and has potentially deleterious effects on communities already facing social and economic struggle in the wake of foreclosure. Linked as this discourse is to academic research on the suburbanization of poverty, it gives pause to those scholars who would speak in terms of 'suburban decline'.

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  • Alex Schafran, 2013. "Discourse and dystopia, American style," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 130-148, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:130-148
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765125
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    1. Laura Lanzerotti, 2006. "Homeownership at high cost : foreclosure risk and high cost loans in California," Community Development Working Paper 2006-01, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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