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Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place GG Modan

Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place By GG Modan

Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place by GG Modan


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Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. * Explores how members of a multi-ethnic, multi-class Washington, DC, community deploy language to legitimize themselves as community members while discrediting others.

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Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place Summary

Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place by GG Modan

Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. * Explores how members of a multi-ethnic, multi-class Washington, DC, community deploy language to legitimize themselves as community members while discrediting others. * Discusses such issues as public toilets and public urination, the morality of co-ops and condos, and characterizations of good girls and bad boys. * Draws on linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis to provide insight into the ways that local activity shapes larger urban social processes. * Draws also on cultural geography and urban anthropology.

Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place Reviews

The style of writing in Turf Wars is refreshing. ... .Modan aims to bring to a wider audience an understanding of how language works through the adoption of this more informal style. (Cultural Geographies, January 2010) A highly readable, lively, and unusually accessible work of ethnography that could be the centerpiece of many different kinds of classes from introductory courses in cultural, linguistic, or urban anthropology to graduate seminars in discourse-analytic method. It makes cleat the potential of discourse analysis as an ethnographic tool. It is also likely to remain topical for many years, since it lays out with great clarity the fundamental conundrums and contradictions that city dwellers must navigate in the United States today and captures the discursive practices by which they manage them with great fluency. (Journal of Anthropological Research, November 2008) Modan's ethnographic participant observation in Mount Pleasant, a diverse community in the Washington DC area, chronicles how this urban neighborhood made up of African Americans, Salvadorans, Vietnamese, and Mennonites experienced diversification and gentrification, leading to contests over the use of public and private space, gender, kinship, and class. Conflicts came about as the result of real estate speculation, the politics of filth debate over proposed public toilets, and other related issues. Modan (English, Ohio State Univ.) argues that the spatial practices and politics contest and challenge the dominant ideas regarding the use of space. The author presents two theoretical chapters on framing, discourse, and performance, and discusses ideas of Goffman, Castells, Lefevre, and many others. In the process, she illuminates how local activity can shape social processes. Material is current and includes a 15-page bibliography ... .Recommended. (CHOICE)

About GG Modan

Gabriella Gahlia Modan (PhD Georgetown University) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Series Preface. List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Part I: The Ethnography. 1. Sketching the Landscape. 2. Mt. Pleasant History and Social Geography. 3. The Moral Geography of Mt. Pleasant. 4. The Politics of Filth. 5. La Loca vs. the Cultural Vampires. 6. Keeping it in the Family. 7. Home Ties, Winds of Change. Part II: The Making of Turf Wars. 8. Theorizing Discourse. 9. Geography and Social Locations. Addendum: Defining Terms. Bibliography. Index.

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CIN1405129557G
9781405129558
1405129557
Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place by GG Modan
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2006-12-14
376
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