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Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. * Explores how members of a multi-ethnic, multi-class Washington, DC, community deploy language to legitimize themselves as community members while discrediting others. * Discusses such issues as public toilets and public urination, the "morality" of co-ops and condos, and characterizations of "good" girls and "bad" boys. * Draws on linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis to provide insight into the ways that local activity shapes larger urban social processes. * Draws also on cultural geography and urban anthropology.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Turf Wars - Discourse, Diversity and the Politics of Place
• Author: Gabriella Gahlia Modan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9781405129565
• ISBN: 1405129565
• ID: 04954846
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 161 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2006

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