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This chapter engages with the spatial politics of aesthetics in the Parisian suburbs of ClichysousBois and Montfermeil. It examines how JR’s street art brings into view the lines of tension informing neighbourhood change. Firstly, the chapter explores how urban aesthetics have become important to gentrif ication analysis and looks at the commodif ication of socially engaged aesthetic practices via the “creative cities” ethos. In the subsequent sections, the chapter introduces a relational reading of JR’s artistic practice in “Clichy Montfermeil.” The central questions guiding the enquiries are as follows: What can street art tell us about the antagonisms shaping processes of speculation in these towns? What can its aesthetic presence reveal about shifts in spatial imaginaries that are disarticulating the banlieues as “deviant,” “nogo zone” to rearticulate them “as a hunting ground for seasoned investors” (Clerima 2019)?
Author(s): Jein G
Editor(s): Christoph Lindner; Gerard F. Sandoval
Series Editor(s): Christoph Lindner
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City
Year: 2021
Pages: 221-246
Print publication date: 22/03/2021
Acceptance date: 01/01/2021
Series Title: Cities and Cultures
Number of Volumes: 1
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Place Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hp5hpc.14
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1hp5hpc.14
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9789463722032
