Relationship to Place for Older Adults in a New York City Neighborhood Undergoing Gentrification: A Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1267-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Weil
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Connectivity ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Ethnographic Data

While many older adults live in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification, research rarely explores their narratives about the gentrification process and their relationships with gentrifiers. This study uses discourse analysis of ethnographic data in Queens, NY, to identify repertoires in older adults’ narratives about the meaning of place and gentrification. Five distinct repertoires emerged: (1) gentrification brings a discussion of losses; (2) talk of the insider versus outsider claim to space; (3) social connectivity phrased as a strength during gentrification; (4) statements about adaptation strategies used to buffer change; and (5) language about neighborhood change as good—even during gentrification. These repertoires show older residents seek to understand and validate their role in a changing place. Their individual dialogues echo discussions and power differentials in their larger social worlds. Older persons’ repertoires illustrate the struggle to contextualize gentrification and not simply homogenize the process or create only limited, stereotypical insider–outsider arguments.

Lifeblood of the Parish

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Material Religion

Each year the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, celebrates its annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. The crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, a devotional spectacle of strength and struggle in which men lift a four-ton, seventy-foot tower through the streets. This ethnographic study delves into this masculine world of devotion and the religious lives of lay Catholic men. It explores contemporary men’s devotion to the saints and the Catholic parish as an enduring venue for the pursuit of manhood and masculinity amid gentrification and neighborhood change in New York City. It explores the way laymen imagine themselves and their labor as high stakes, the very work of keeping their parish alive. In this Brooklyn church men, money, and devotion are intertwined. In the backstage spaces of the parish men enact their devotion through craft, manual labor, and fundraising. A rich exploration of embodiment and material religion, this book examines how men come to be part of religious community through material culture: costumes, clothing, objects, and tattoos. It argues that devotion is as much about skills, the body, and relationships between men as it is about belief.

Quality of urban life among older adults in the world major metropolises: a cross-cultural comparative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
XI PAN ◽  
JASLEEN K. CHAHAL ◽  
ROSE MARIE WARD
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
York City ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life

ABSTRACTThe concept of quality of urban life (QoUL) can be interpreted quite differently across different cultures. Little evidence has shown that the measure of QoUL, which is based on Western culture, can be applied to populations cross-culturally. In the current study, we use data from the 2006 Assessing Happiness and Competitiveness of World Major Metropolises study to identify underlying factors associated with QoUL as well as assess the consistency of the QoUL measurement among adults, aged 60 and older, in ten world major metropolises (i.e. New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Stockholm, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul). Exploratory factor analysis and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are used to analyse the data. Findings of the study suggest that the measure of QoUL is sensitive to socio-cultural differences. Community factor and intrapersonal factor are two underlying structures that are related to QoUL among older adults in ten metropolises cross-culturally. Results from the CFA indicate that Toronto is comparable with Beijing, New York City, Paris, Milan and Stockholm in QoUL, while other cities are not. The results provide insights into the development of current urban policy and promotion of quality of life among older residents in major metropolitan areas. Future researchers should continue to explore the relationship between QoUL and socio-cultural differences within international urban settings, while remaining cautious when making cross-cultural comparisons.

scholarly journals Beyond Housing: Perceptions of Indirect Displacement, Displacement Risk, and Aging Precarity as Challenges to Aging in Place in Gentrifying Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 4633 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Shellae Versey ◽  
Serene Murad ◽  
Paul Willems ◽  
Mubarak Sanni
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
Aging In Place ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Age In Place ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Housing Costs ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Shifts

Neighborhoods within age-friendly cities and communities are an important factor in shaping the everyday lives of older adults. Yet, less is known about how neighborhoods experiencing change influence the ability to age in place. One type of rapid neighborhood change occurring across major cities nationally and globally is gentrification, a process whereby the culture of an existing neighborhood changes through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. Few studies have considered the impact of gentrification on older adults, who are among the most vulnerable to economic and social pressures that often accompany gentrification. The current study explores one consequence of gentrification, indirect displacement. While gentrification-induced displacement can refer to the physical (e.g., direct) displacement of residents moving out of a neighborhood due to rising housing costs, it also references the replacement of the unique character and social identity of a neighborhood (e.g., indirect displacement). We examine perceptions of the latter, characterized by perceived cultural shifts and housing concerns among adults aging in place in a gentrifying neighborhood in New York City. The implications of indirect displacement for displacement risk and aging precarity are discussed as potential threats to aging in place in age-friendly cities.

scholarly journals A PILOT STUDY ASSESSING IN-HOME ACTIVITY PERFORMANCE AMONG VULNERABLE OLDER ADULTS IN NEW YORK CITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 46-46
Author(s):  
D. Russell ◽  
S.L. Szanton ◽  
J.L. Feinberg ◽  
K.H. Bowles
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
York City ◽  
Activity Performance

scholarly journals Unintentional drug overdose deaths involving cocaine among middle-aged and older adults in New York City

2019 ◽  
Vol 198 ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin H. Han ◽  
Ellenie Tuazon ◽  
Hillary V. Kunins ◽  
Shivani Mantha ◽  
Denise Paone
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Drug Overdose ◽  
York City ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Overdose Deaths

Investing in Independent Contract Work

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Occhiuto
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Work Schedule ◽  
Schedule Control ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Contract Work ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Work Arrangement

New York City “yellow” taxi drivers work as independent contractors. Like many independent contract workers, taxi drivers engage in economically precarious work—or work that is economically uncertain, unpredictable, and risky. This article explores how taxi drivers make sense of the economic risks they face each workday. Drawing on 20 months of ethnographic data, it finds that taxi drivers made sense of their work by expressing a sense of control over their work schedule, which is significant given the self-conceptions that drivers bring with them to this particular work arrangement. As a result, this sense of schedule control serves as a mechanism for worker investment in the structure of independent contract work.

Feeling Fear

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
York City ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Core Concepts

The purpose of this study is to enhance understanding of the lived experience of feeling fear. Parse’s phenomenological‐hermeneutic method was used to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of feeling fear? Ten older adults living in or near New York City participated in the study. Data were collected through dialogical engagement and analyzed through the extraction‐synthesis processes. Core concepts were identified and discussed. The structure, feeling fear is haunting possibilities with cautious perseverance arising with reassuring affiliations amid defiance, is the central finding of this study. This finding was connected to the humanbecoming theory and extant literature, contributing to nursing knowledge, expanding the theory, and enhancing of understanding about feeling fear with older adults.

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