Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh Tooley Christa Ballard
Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh Tooley Christa Ballard Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. Tooley's…
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Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh Tooley Christa Ballard
Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. Tooley's insightful study of the working-class Canongate community as they negotiate gentrification plans offers a complex view of class and nation. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland, a closer look reveals the growth of liberal democratic ideals in the working-class population, which has a much different goal: How can this European city keep the entrepreneurial forces of globalization from commodifying what is distinctly theirs?In Tenement Nation, Christa Ballard Tooley explores the battle for a neighborhood called the Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town.
Against such development projects, alliances formed between The threat of the Canongate's redevelopment motivated many throughout Edinburgh to lend their support to the residents' campaign.