The Authenticity Concept of Sh. Zukin: “Schizoid” Category in Urban Studies
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Kalashnikova K.N. The Authenticity Concept of Sh. Zukin: “Schizoid” Category in Urban Studies. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2020. Vol. 12. No. 2. P. 8-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2020.12.2.1 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article is devoted to the consideration of the concept of authenticity set forth by S. Zukin in the book “Naked City: Death and Life of Authentic Urban Spaces”. The sources of the concept are traced in the author’s early works, the main subjects described in them are: the process of gentrification; power relations forming the urban landscape; symbolic economy and the power of cultural characteristics. These subjects became the basis of the idea of authenticity. Its manifestations are described by the example of “uncommon” and “common” urban spaces. A separate place in the article is considered by the development of individual ideas of Sh. Zukin, their interpretations, as well as applications for specific studies in the work of followers. The conclusion is drawn about the variety of interpretations offered by researchers and the ambiguity of using authenticity as a tool for analyzing the city.
Keywords:
authenticity, urban space, Zukin, gentrification, “the soul of the city”
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Davydov V.N. (2006) Kulturnaya autentichnost i korennye narody: institutsionalnye protsessy i politika identichnosti [Cultural Authenticity and Indigenous Peoples: Institutional Processes and Identity Policies]. Zhurnal Sotsiologii i Sotsialnoi Antropologii [Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology]. Vol. 9. No. 3. P. 93–109. (In Russ.)
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Hoffberg M. (2011) Authenticity / In: Ritzer G., Rojek C. (eds) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosa090
Johnstone C. (2017) Penalising Presence in Public Space: Control through Exclusion of the «Difficult» and «Undesirable». International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Vol. 6. No. 2. P. 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i2.299
Jones S. (2010) Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves. Journal of Material Culture. Vol. 15. No. 2. P. 181–203. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510364074
Karan I. (2015) Analysis of Place Intensity in the Examples of Liberty Square (Trg Slobode) and Njegos Square (Njegosev Trg) in Trebinje. Architecture, City and Environment. Vol. 9. No. 27. P. 27–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.9.27.2734
Koch R. (2015) Licensing, Popular Practices and Public Spaces: An Inquiry via the Geographies of Street Food Vending. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 39. No. 6. P. 1231–1250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12316
Kwon Y., Joo S., Han S., Park C. (2017) Mapping the Distribution Pattern of Gentrification Near Urban Parks in the Case of Gyeongui Line Forest Park, Seoul, Korea. Sustainability (Switzerland). Vol. 9. No. 2. P. 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su9020231
Manzo L.K.C. (2012) Emergent Spaces, Contemporary Urban Conflicts: Experiences of Social Mix in Changing Neighborhoods – The Case Study of Milan’s Chinatown. Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis. Vol. 8. P. 415–449. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/s1479-358x(2012)0000008021
Morgner C. (2019) Spatial Barriers and the Formation of Global Art Cities: The Case of Tokyo. International Journal of Japanese Sociology. No. 28. P. 183–208. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.12094
Musiezdov A. (2013) Territorialnaya identichnost v sovremennom obshchestve [Territorial identity in modern society]. Labirint. Zhurnal sotsialno-gumanitarnykh issledovanii [Labyrinth Journal of Social and Humanitarian Studies]. No. 5. P. 51–59. (In Russ.)
Naegler L. (2018) ‘Goldman-Sachs Doesn’t Care If You Raise Chicken’: The Challenges of Resistant Prefiguration. Social Movement Studies. Vol. 17. No. 5. P. 507–523. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2018.1495074
Orum A. (2010) Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places – By Sharon Zukin. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 34. No. 4. P. 997–998. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.01022_2.x
Reinders L. (2016) Homing the Dutch City Iconography of Home and the Politics of Representation. Home Cultures. Vol. 13. No. 2. P. 193–213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2016.1190586
Soloveva A.N. (2009) Kontseptualizatsiya autentichnosti v kontekste globalizatsii kultury [Conceptualization of authenticity in the context of globalization of culture]. Vestnik Severnogo (Arkticheskogo) Federalnogo Universiteta. Seriya: Gumanitarnye i Sotsialnye Nauki [Bulletin of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences]. No. 2. P. 137–141. (In Russ.)
Spracklen K., Laurencic J., Kenyon A. (2013) ‘Mine’s a Pint of Bitter’: Performativity, Gender, Class and Representations of Authenticity in Real-Ale Tourism. Tourist Studies. Vol. 13. No. 3. P. 304–321. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797613498165
Squire C., Esin C., Burman C. (2013) ‘You Are Here’: Visual Autobiographies, Cultural-Spatial Positioning, and Resources for Urban Living. Sociological Research Online. Vol. 18. No. 3. P. 1–18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2975
Stovall M. (2019) ‘It’s the ’Hood. But That Means It’s Home!’: African American Feminist Critical Geographic Wanderings in the Anthropology of Space and Place. Transforming Anthropology. Vol. 27. No. 1. P. 50–67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12142
Tykanova E. (2016) Sharon Zukin. Kul'tury gorodov [The Cultures of Cities]. Translated by D. Simanovskii. Moscow: NLO, 2015. Laboratorium. Vol. 8. No. 3. P. 155–157. (In Russ.)
Wesener A. (2016) ‘This Place Feels Authentic’: Exploring Experiences of Authenticity of Place in Relation to the Urban Built Environment in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. Journal of Urban Design. Vol. 21. No. 1. P. 67–83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2015.1106915
Williams T.L., Needham C.R. (2016) Transformation of a City: Gentrification’s Influence on the Small Business Owners of Harlem, New York. SAGE Open. Vol. 6. No. 4. P. 1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016673631
Wirth L. (2016) Urbanizm kak obraz zhizni [Urbanism As a Way of Life] / Transl. by V. Nikolaev, ed. by V. Babitskaya. M.: Strelka Press. (In Russ.)
Xie S., Batunova E. (2019) Shrinking Historic Neighborhoods and Authenticity Dilution: An Unspoken Challenge of Historic Chinatowns in the United States through the Case of San Francisco. Sustainability. Vol. 12. No. 1. P. 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010282
Yue H., Zhu X. (2019) Exploring the Relationship between Urban Vitality and Street Centrality Based on Social Network Review Data in Wuhan, China. Sustainability (Switzerland). Vol. 11. No. 16. P. 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11164356
Zaban H. (2017) City of go(l)d: Spatial and Cultural Effects of High-Status Jewish Immigration from Western Countries on the Baka Neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Urban Studies. Vol. 54. No. 7. P. 1539–1558. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015625023
Zukin S. (1982) Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change. Baltimore, London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Zukin S. (1991) Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley: California Press.
Zukin Sh. (2009) Landshafty vlasti. Ot Detroita do mira Disneya [Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World] / Transl. by V.V. Vagin. URL: http://les—urbanistes.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog—post_17.html (accessed 15 May 2020). (In Russ.)
Zukin Sh. (2015) Kultury gorodov [The Cultures of Cities] / Ed. by D. Simanovskii. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. (In Russ.)
Zukin Sh. (2019) Obnazhennyi gorod. Smert i zhizn autentichnykh gorodskikh prostranstv [Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places] / Transl. by A. Lazarev, N. Edelman; ed. by V. Danilov). M.: Institut Gaidara. (In Russ.)
Zwiers M., Kleinhans R., van Ham M. (2017) The Path-Dependency of Low-Income Neighbourhood Trajectories: An Approach for Analysing Neighbourhood Change. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Vol. 10. No. 3. P. 363–380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-016-9189-z
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Received: 15.05.2020
Accepted: 25.06.2020
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Kalashnikova, K. N. (2020). The Authenticity Concept of Sh. Zukin: “Schizoid” Category in Urban Studies. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 12(2), 8-28. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2020.12.2.1
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