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Not Your Shock Troops: Queer Artists Disrupting Gentrification in Montreal's St-Henri

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Not Your Shock Troops: Queer Artists Disrupting Gentrification in Montreal's St-Henri

Lupino-Smith, Estraven (2019) Not Your Shock Troops: Queer Artists Disrupting Gentrification in Montreal's St-Henri. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Abstract

This thesis develops a queer(ed) analyses of gentrification, one that troubles the current analysis of the role of artists and cultural workers in the process. It does so by drawing on critical race, queer, and feminist theory and through empirical research in St-Henri that investigates the nuances of the cultural dimensions of urban redevelopment. Without denying the importance of economic processes in driving gentrification, this research suggests there is a need to think about the way that normativity is entangled with gentrification. In doing so, the research also seeks to uncover queer resistance to these changes in urban space and investigates how certain forms of queer resistance, even when embodied in artists, might disrupt rather than propel gentrification processes.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Geography, Planning and Environment
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Lupino-Smith, Estraven
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M. Sc.
Program:Geography, Urban & Environmental Studies
Date:28 August 2019
Thesis Supervisor(s):Rutland, Ted
Keywords:urban studies, gentrification, queer theory, artists, queer artists, trans studies, artists and gentrification, urban space, urban redevelopment, resistance to gentrification, queer history, urban queer history, critical geography, gender, heteronormativity, homonormativity, race, sexuality and space.
ID Code:985947
Deposited By: Estraven Lupino-Smith
Deposited On:05 Feb 2020 02:23
Last Modified:05 Feb 2020 02:23
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