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Lawrenceville’s artistic enclave is centered on the activities of struggling artistic gentrifiers within a post-industrial context. In this chapter, I begin by organizing existing scholarly research findings and theoretical assertions about such enclaves into four major themes. These themes constitute what I refer to as the dominant academic narrative about post-industrial artistic enclaves. This narrative maintains, in short, that in major urban centers, struggling artistic gentrifiers continue to express antagonism toward and opposition to a post-industrial bourgeoisie that welcomes and benefits from, but ultimately displaces their artistic enclaves. I then discuss Lawrenceville’s artistic creative class enclave, maintaining that the existence of such an enclave constitutes an alternative to the dominant academic narrative. Finally, I compare Lawrenceville’s artistic enclave to three related community types.
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Such assessments typically utilize the term bohemia to describe and conceptualize the communities under investigation. Scholars focused solely on artists as neighborhood gentrifiers (rather than as purveyors of a subcultural alternative) however, generally eschew this term (see, for example, Ley 2003).
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Moss, G. (2017). An Alternative to the Dominant Academic Narrative. In: Artistic Enclaves in the Post-Industrial City. SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55264-4_7
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