If you are in London, please consider joining for this talk and conversation on May 7 at LSE.

My gratitude to the hosts of the Unfrozen Podcast, Daniel Safarik and Greg Lindsay, for an engaging conversation about The Death and Life of Gentrification. unfrozenarch.net/episodes/117...

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ASA member Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social traces how the concept of gentrification has evolved to express widespread ambivalence about economic inequality and unease with various forms of social change. @princetonupress.bsky.social

My (belated) thanks to Andrew Burmon for engaging in a fun and thoughtful conversation about The Death and Life of Gentrification for the Upper Middle. www.uppermiddle.news/p/upper-midd...

Now available worldwide, @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social's The Death and Life of Gentrification is a provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Many thanks to Jeffrey Parker, Sarah Mayorga, Yuki Kato, and Derek Hyra for their insightful engagement with The Death and Life of Gentrification at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference. It was an honor and a treat to have each of them reflect on the book.

Last month, the BU Initiative on Cities organized a discussion of the Death and Life of Gentrification. My thanks to them for the event, as well as for this great summary. I also thank Karilyn Crockett, Stephanie Ternullo, and Lawrence Vale for engaging with the book. www.bu.edu/ioc/2026/02/...

I look forward to talking about my new book with the terrific Georgetown Department of Sociology this Wednesday.

If you'd like to join our conversation about the Death and Life of Gentrification at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space tomorrow (Feb 11) at 6 PM, you can register via this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/japonica-b...

I am incredibly honored that the Death and Life of Gentrification is reviewed in the February 9 issue of the New Yorker. My great thanks to them for their engagement with the book.

I am so looking forward to my conversation with the terrific filmmaker/author, Alexis Clements, at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in New York on Wed., Feb 11. Conversation begins at 6 PM. Please join us!

If you are in Boston and looking for something to do post-snow, please join me and Rachel Weber at Harvard Bookstore this Thursday, January 29 at 7 PM. We will be discussing my new book, The Death and Life of Gentrification.

If you're in Chicago, consider joining me at Women & Children First on Wed., January 14 at 7 PM. I'll be discussing my new book, The Death and Life of Gentrification, with Dr. Teresa Gonzales. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-death-...

I'm very much looking forward to this event at Boston University on February 4th! Thanks to the Initiative on Cities for organizing! bsky.app/profile/buon...

Thank you Publishers Weekly for a terrific review of The Death and Life of Gentrification (out in January from PUP)!

So glad to have had the opportunity to spend an energizing day in D.C. meeting with the offices of MA and Rhode Island representatives to discuss the import of the social sciences. #COSSA2025

Learn more about our ASA 2025 Annual Meeting host city, Chicago! Get the latest issue of ASA’s Footnotes Magazine, including the regional spotlight piece “The City at 100: A Volume and its Afterlives” by Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, University of New Orleans @jnparker.bsky.social https://bit.ly/41ZRxTA

In Italia continua a mancare un tema nel dibattito sulla casa: il CONTROLLO DEGLI AFFITTI. Ne parlo in quest'articolo della Rivista di Studi Politici, a partire dalla conferenza "Gentrification and Displacement" organizzata a ottobre 2023 da @lorettaclees.bsky.social e @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social!

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