Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.001

Shonna Trinch, Edward Snajdr

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Abstract

We study how large and small discursive neoliberal moves create contemporary urban space. We explore neoliberalism’s coordinates, how it gets vocalized, and its variously scaled economic realities. The setting is Brooklyn's changing status in 2003 from “outer borough” and marginal to Manhattan to a new economic and cultural center of its own. Focusing on private developer, Forest City Ratner's (FCRC) 2003 Atlantic Yards redevelopment with its large-scale movement of capital and corporate land seizure, we situate our family’s 2003 move to Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood to examine the circulating discourses of gentrification and redevelopment. [ii] The area proposed to be developed as Atlantic Yards has been renamed Pacific Park.

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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3.40

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期刊介绍： This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.