Gentrification and everyday democracy

• Published in: European journal of political theory Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 359 - 380
• Main Author: Draper, Jamie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2024; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Democracy; Differentiation; Disadvantaged; Gentrification; Homogenization; Production; Public spaces; Public sphere; Urbanism; Iris Marion Young; epistemic democracy; Gentrification; public space; democracy

This article diagnoses a novel problem with gentrification: that it can hinder valuable forms of everyday democratic communication. In order to make this argument, I develop a democratic interpretation of Iris Marion Young's ‘ideal of city life’, according to which social differentiation is val...