"We won't give up our power"
Knowledge Economy Incarnate: Gentrification in a New York City Neighborhood
Columbia University implemented urban renewal and order maintenance to coerce residents of the neighbourhood deemed not to fit within their vision of a “Modern Acropolis” and the knowledge economy. I argue that police raids and the use of eminent domain rendered low-income residents of colour silenced and marginalized. However, residents worked their way through the structures of dominance to assert their right to remain in the neighbourhood.Cite as: Soifer, Isabelle. 2019.
