Ernst "A window on the (changing) neighbourhood: The role of pubs in the contested spaces of gentrification"

Question 1

What are places according to Ernst?

Answer 1

Places are meetings. Places only matter when they matter to people. Places are points on the map where people interact.

Question 2

What questions can be asked based on the paper by Ernst?

Answer 2

• In which pub do you feel local?
• Which is a pub that you might frequently visit?
• What is it that makes you feel in place?
• In which pub do you feel out of place?
• Why are you local there?
• Who decides this or is it about routine?

Question 3

Why are pubs places of resilience according to Ernst?

Answer 3

The sense of community persist. Places where they can still visit the neighbourhood they once knew.

Question 4

Why are pubs places of resistance according to Ernst?

Answer 4

They are non-yuppified fortresses. It’s still the working class neighbourhood.

Question 5

What are the dialectics in the paper of Ernst?

Answer 5

Either gentrification is the only way forward (neoliberal neighbourhood development) or gentrification is deportation (of the original population)