Back to L ittle H avana: Controlling Gentrification in the Heart of C uban M iami
2014; Wiley; Volume: 38; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/1468-2427.12097
ISSN1468-2427
AutoresMarcos Feldman, Violaine Jolivet,
Tópico(s)Latin American and Latino Studies
ResumoAbstract In this article we examine the nature and implementation of governing strategies to control the gentrification of L ittle H avana, the symbolic heart of C uban M iami. We ask how C uban A merican power relations at the neighborhood level operate to ‘produce’ the citizen best suited to fulfill and help reproduce policies and practices of ‘securing’ in order to gentrify L ittle H avana. Based on long‐term ethnographic research in L ittle H avana and M iami, our analysis reveals how governance operates through neighborhood‐level intermediaries and interpersonal relations. We apply Foucault's ‘pastoral power’ to M iami's C uban exile community in order to explain how the ‘ C uban‐ness’ and ‘Latin‐ness’ of governing relations and the personification of political power are crucial to socio‐spatial control in L ittle H avana. Elites shape the conduct of individuals in order to achieve strategic goals in the name of community interest. Residents are key partners in the relational ensemble that governs and disciplines the neighborhood comprised mostly of low‐income, Central‐ A merican immigrants.
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