Threadgold Steven, Molnar Lena, Sharp Megan, Coffey Julia, Farrugia David
University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Br J Sociol. 2024 Dec;75(5):892-907. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13138. Epub 2024 Jul 20.
This paper contributes new understandings of the dynamics and processes of gentrification that contribute to wider transformations of class relations. We argue that the hospitality sector, specifically the tastes, dispositions and practices of young hospitality workers, are central in how gentrification processes currently function. We extend concepts of elective and selective belonging, and reflexive complicity, to analyse how young hospitality workers understand their own labouring practices as contributing to gentrification in their local areas. We show how their aesthetic and ethical orientations to place, especially their workplaces, make their experience of hospitality work more palatable. At the same time, their tastes are 'put to work' in venues that contribute to the vibes and aesthetics aimed at middle class consumption practices, while creating symbolic boundaries for long-term residents who are being ostracised in the process. In this way, the high cultural capital bar workers possess thus become spatial bouncers for high economic capital property developers, where reflexive complicity is instrumentalised as a process of symbolic violence. We propose that hospitality labour, and the everyday relationalities and working practices of young workers, are crucial for understanding the contemporary processes of gentrification and class formation.
本文对绅士化的动态变化和过程提出了新的理解，这些理解有助于更广泛的阶级关系转变。我们认为，酒店业，特别是年轻酒店员工的品味、性情和行为，在当前绅士化过程的运作方式中起着核心作用。我们扩展了选择性归属和反思性同谋的概念，以分析年轻酒店员工如何将自己的劳动实践理解为对当地绅士化的推动。我们展示了他们对场所，尤其是工作场所的审美和伦理取向，如何使他们对酒店工作的体验更易接受。与此同时，他们的品味在那些有助于营造针对中产阶级消费习惯的氛围和美学的场所中“发挥作用”，同时为在此过程中被排斥的长期居民创造了象征性的界限。通过这种方式，酒吧员工所拥有的高文化资本因此成为高经济资本房地产开发商的空间把关人，反思性同谋被用作一种象征性暴力的过程。我们认为，酒店业劳动以及年轻员工的日常关系和工作实践，对于理解当代绅士化和阶级形成过程至关重要。
