Modan, Gabriella Gahlia
Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place
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.
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural SOC002010
- Author(s)
- Modan, Gabriella Gahlia
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 376 pages
- Category
- Geography, Travel
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470775424
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405129565
