Gentrification and diversity : rebranding Milan's Chinatown / Lidia Katia C. Manzo.
Manzo, Lidia K. C.
2023
HT169.I82
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Title Gentrification and diversity : rebranding Milan's Chinatown / Lidia Katia C. Manzo.
Author Manzo, Lidia K. C.
ISBN 9783031351433 (electronic bk.)
3031351436 (electronic bk.)
3031351428
9783031351426
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35143-3
Imprint Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-35143-3 doi
Call Number HT169.I82
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.760945211
Summary This book examines lived experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the upscale commercial gentrification of the Milan Chinatown. It inquires about the significance of diverse neighborhoods as emerging multicultural spaces? Are we talking about neighborhood entrepreneurs providing services and entertainment to create local urban culture, or are we talking about political/economic forces in the commodification of ethnic and cultural diversity? Starting from these questions, this book uses innovative visual ethnography and critical urban research to understand the relationship between community-based entrepreneurs, local politics, residents sense of belonging, and patterns of city branding strategies in Milan, the fashion capital of Italy. This book is intended for researchers and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology, urban studies, geography, and urban planning. Additionally, it is appropriate for practitioners in the fields of urban planning, housing policies, and community development. Manzos Gentrification and Diversity urges readers to look at the fashion capital of Milan through the lens of ethnic diversity, class and urban transformation. Based on a decade of ethnographic work in Milans changing Chinatown, the book takes the reader on a journey of aesthetics, capital speculation and urban contestations to show how the Chinese traders and entrepreneurs who would have been displaced by gentrification in fact strategically navigate the racialized restrictions to reclaim their place. Gentrification and Diversity is an exemplar of how Chinatowns around the world are being reinvented locally and globally today amidst continued debates over how Chinese identity and culture should be represented in such spaces. (Prof. Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore) "The author problematizes the notion of diversity in the southern European context, which is a much-needed addition to the existing scholarship on gentrification in traditional ethnic enclaves. The power dynamics and clashes of interests depicted in this book provide us significant and timely insights on how the social construct of a sanitized, aestheticized ethnic space for consumption was built upon a centuries' old anti-Asian milieu and refreshed by the fear of a rising China. Furthermore, Manzo skilfully illustrates how Chineseness as a cultural discourse is strategically mobilized in narratives of urban inclusion and exclusion." (Prof. Fang Xu, Continuing Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, The USA).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Urban book series.
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Introduction
Milan Chinatown: The defamation of place in the making of territorial stigma
Hybridity and Chineseness in the global city
Diversity in neighborhood change: Conflict and resistance
Gentrification in multiethnic neighborhoods
The style of Milan (new) Chinatown
Appendix: Engaging with multiple voices: Video ethnography and urban critical research.

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