Gentrification Debates Revisited: Lessons from 30 Years of Sociological Research

Associate Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino will examine thirty years of extant gentrification scholarship to identify definitional differences, research trends and knowledge gaps. She will address several key themes including:

• Core features of sociological approaches to gentrification, including examinations of racial, residential, commercial and educational impacts
• Gentrification’s origins, dynamics and consequences
• Policy recommendations that have emerged from research
• Conceptual differences in scholarly definitions of gentrification, including temporal and spatial scales at which it is examined

Brown-Saracino will identify prospective directions that gentrification scholarship should take and define the ways in which new lines of inquiry could address planning and policy concerns.

Brown-Saracino also received funding from the Department of Sociology’s Morris Fund to conduct her research.

Publications

Brown-Saracino, J. 2016. “An Agenda for the Next Decade of Gentrification Scholarship.” City & Community 15 (3): 220 – 225.

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