The Dig: Real Estate Capitalism and Gentrification with Samuel Stein
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🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
What is gentrification? It isn't just about what was once known as the hipster and is still known as the artist, the telltale warning signs of impending demographic change. It's part of an entire political-economic order that has made real estate global capitalism's most prized asset for storing wealth—one that has helped bend place-based urban governments to the will of mobile, and thus more powerful, capital. Dan interviews Samuel Stein on his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is feminism |
| 0:16.3 | for the 99% a manifesto by Cinsia Rutsa, Tifie Badacharya, and Nancy Frazier. |
| 0:24.3 | Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, health care, climate change, border policing. |
| 0:31.3 | Not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. |
| 0:35.0 | But don't these issues impact the vast majority of women globally? |
| 0:40.0 | Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, |
| 0:45.2 | this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case. |
| 0:48.8 | Feminism shouldn't start or stop, with seeing women represented at the top of society. |
| 0:56.2 | It must start with those at the bottom and fight for the world they deserve. |
| 1:01.4 | And that means targeting capitalism. |
| 1:04.1 | Feminism must be anti-capitalist, eco-socialist, and anti-racist. |
| 1:10.3 | This is a manifesto for the 99%. |
| 1:14.0 | And if you haven't already, check out my recent dig interview with Tithy on this very manifesto. |
| 1:21.0 | Feminism for the 99%, a manifesto by Cincia Rutza, Tithi about Acharya and Nancy Frazier. |
| 1:29.0 | Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm |
| 1:47.8 | back broadcasting once again from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:53.6 | I received a ton of electronically transmitted love in response to my remarkably lengthy monologue |
| 2:01.1 | introduction to my interview on Transportation Idiacy with |
| 2:05.4 | Kofway Otto a few weeks back. About half of that intro was inspired by |
| 2:10.3 | Kofway's incredible book. The other half was inspired by Capital City, |
| 2:16.4 | Gentrification and the real estate state, a book by my guest today, Samuel Stein. |
| 2:25.9 | As Stein writes, so-called livable neighborhoods have become synonymous with gentrified |
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