Finding une place pour toutes et tous [a place for everyone]: Changing Landscapes of Art and Politics in Aubervilliers

With a series of place-centered vignettes, this anthropological work incorporates interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies to examine how intersections of art and politics in newer art places in Aubervilliers, a northern banlieue of Paris with a large foreigner population, engage with placemaking, gentrification, and belonging. Each vignette is structured to parse out placemaking, gentrification, and belonging in each place with deep sensory detail. These places include a former military fort, a farm house used for cultural and art programming, and a shared artist studio. Ultimately, this work demonstrates that newer art places in Aubervilliers prioritize the belonging of newcomers and outsiders, not necessarily the diverse population and residents of Aubervilliers.

Author

• Somberg, Emily Claire

Language

• en

Keyword

• Gentrification
• Placemaking
• Art
• Suburbs
• Paris
• Landscape

Date created

• 2019

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Anthropology

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Dent, Alexander
• Wagner, Sarah

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/fb494909t