Bourlessas, P., Cenere, S., & Vanolo, A. (2021). The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy. Urban Geography, 1-22. doi:10.1080/02723638.2021.1927547, 2021
Intersecting culinary and retail geographies, this paper brings to centre stage food in retail ge... more Intersecting culinary and retail geographies, this paper brings to centre stage food in retail gentrification. Theoretically, it suggests that food, together with its spatialities, can produce a “displacement atmosphere” throughout retailscape by enabling privileged consumers to achieve distinction. Empirically, it draws from Porta Palazzo, Turin’s historical neighbourhood and marketplace, where the opening of a branded food hall reveals food’s role in the area’s early-stage retail gentrification. Attending to both the food hall and smaller emerging spatialities, the “work of foodification” is analyzed through three constitutive elements: discourse, materialities, practices. Within the city’s wider geographies and ongoing transformations, the synergy of these elements reveals that the work of foodification is the convert of Porta Palazzo into a device that, first, fixes a displacement atmosphere onto the local retailscape and, then, allows for the gentrification frontier to proceed. The paper responds to calls for re-conceptualizing displacement, contributing to emergent research on marketplaces as gentrification’s frontier spaces.
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132520942304
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Vanolo A. (2017), “Cities and the politics of gamification”, Cities, v. 74, pp. 320-326; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.021
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autobiography, autoethnography, creative methodologies, ethnofiction, fictional story, fictional vignettes, invented stories
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C. Rabbiosi, A. Vanolo (2017) ‘Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies?’, cultural geographies, v. 24, n. 2, pp. 265-278.
Vanolo A. (2023), “La geografia umana secondo un’intelligenza artificiale. Un piccolo
esperimento”, Rivista Geografica Italiana, CXXX, fasc. 2, pp. 83-100.
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Keywords: autism, neurodiversity, autistic city, queering autism, neurodiversicity
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132520942304
Final version published as:
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Parole chiave: Futurologia, tecnologia, smart city, città del futuro, immaginario urbano
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Rivista Geografica Italiana, v. 126, n. 2, pp. 77-100.
Final version published as:
Vanolo A. (2017), “Cities and the politics of gamification”, Cities, v. 74, pp. 320-326; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.021
Final version published as:
A. Vanolo, N. Cattan (2017) ‘Selling cruises: Gender and mobility in promotional brochures’, Tourist Studies, v. 17, n. 4, pp. 406-425.
Published as:
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Keywords:
autobiography, autoethnography, creative methodologies, ethnofiction, fictional story, fictional vignettes, invented stories
Final version published as:
C. Rabbiosi, A. Vanolo (2017) ‘Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies?’, cultural geographies, v. 24, n. 2, pp. 265-278.
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Book abstract
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Bourlessas P., Vanolo A. (2022) “Clouds and movements”, in N. Cattan and L. Faret (eds), Hybrid Mobilities. Transgressive Spatialities, Routledge, New York, pp. 76-93.
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- The crisis of Fordism as a mode of production has opened the way for the rise of a variety of representations and public discourses heralding the advent of the post-Fordist city in multiple forms.
- The invention of the global city is at the heart of the globalization discourse. Over the years, this notion has travelled across the globe, being particularly successful in the East-Asian context.
- In recent years, the environmentalist discourse has been incorporated into the neoliberal policy agenda, which emphasizes the link between sustainability and economic development. Urban resilience is the emerging policy catchword in this context.
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Manuscript; final version published as:
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