Aneta Dybska

University of Warsaw, Department of North American Cultures and Literatures, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Faculty Member

University of Warsaw, Department of Cultural Studies, Institute of English Studies, Faculty Member

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Gentrification and Lesbian Subcultures in Sarah Schulman‟s 'Girls, Visions and Everything

A 2010 press release accompanying the launching of a 40-second film Discovered (Odkryta), promoti... more A 2010 press release accompanying the launching of a 40-second film Discovered (Odkryta), promoting Łódź as a candidate for the European Capital of Culture 2016, draws attention to the city‟s uniqueness and magical yet unsettling appeal. Directed by Borys Lankosz, “Discovered” incorporates the film noir aesthetic to map the city‟s cultural potential and creative energies onto Księży Młyn, the city‟s historical textile industry district. Home to the thriving Polish textile industry since the early nineteenth century, Łódź entered the twenty-first century as a major player in the revitalization of its once vibrant urban spaces, including the conversion of dilapidated factory buildings in Księży Młyn into modern living spaces. As recently as May 2010, an Australian company, Opal Property Developments, put up for sale stylish lofts in a gated community on the former site of the Karol Scheibler factory complex. Shot against the backdrop of nineteenth-century industrial architecture of workers‟ homes (famuły), Discovered stages an urban drama of a man in a trench-coat and a felt hat, possibly a private eye, with a camera and flashlight, pursuing a woman, a femme fatale type, along the dimly-lit alleyways of nighttime Księży Młyn. Playing on the traditional sexual attraction in the film noir classics, Lankosz foregrounds Łódź‟s urban mystery in line with the city officials‟ plans to attract artists into the postindustrial, disinvested, city-owned area but, equally, to transform it into an incubator of creativity, thus forging a new economy of cultural production. As Lankosz admits in an interview, his inspirations take root in the experience of the American metropolis:

Regeneration, Citizenship, and Justice in the American City since the 1970s

This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political ident... more This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated. This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies, geography, political philosophy, and urban studies. Drawing on scholarly, journalistic, essayistic, and fictional texts, the author examines the linkages between urban regeneration policies, citizenship, and social justice in the neoliberal city. She foregrounds grassroots and official strategies of community building, civic revival and democratic governance, as well as the right to the city, localism, and sustainability as key discourses and practices of re-configuring and re-inhabiting the urban.

Frontier Imagery in Gentrification Narratives: Andrew Wingfield’s Short Story Cycle Right of Way (2010)

Roczniki Humanistyczne, Dec 23, 2020

Metaforyka pogranicza w cyklu opowiadań Andrew Wingfielda pt. Right of Way (2010) poświęconych pr... more Metaforyka pogranicza w cyklu opowiadań Andrew Wingfielda pt. Right of Way (2010) poświęconych procesom gentryfikacji Niniejszy artykuł stanowi analizę cyklu opowiadań pt. Right of Way (2010) amerykańskiego pisarza Andrew Wingfielda przez pryzmat mitu pogranicza. Odwołując się do pojęcia pogranicza, sformułowanego przez historyka Fredericka Jacksona Turnera pod koniec XIX w. oraz do teorii miejskiej ekologii wypracowanej przez socjologów tzw. szkoły chicagowskiej, pokazuję w jaki sposób Wingfield wykorzystuje metaforę pogranicza i proces inwazji-sukcesji w celu krytycznego ujęcia gentryfikacji w podmiejskiej Ameryce. Wingfield sięga po rozpoznawalny dla Amerykanów mit założycielski, ale zabieg ten służy mu jako punkt wyjścia do wielowymiarowego ujęcia zmian zachodzących w przestrzeni miejskiej. Interesują go przede wszystkim interakcje międzyludzkie w obrębie lokalnej wspólnoty oraz tworzenie się więzi emocjonalnej z miejscem.

Where the War on Poverty and Black Power Meet: A Right to the City Perspective on American Urban Politics in the 1960s

European Journal of American Studies, Dec 31, 2015

This paper looks back to the 1960s Black Power Movement in the U.S. as one of the unacknowledged ... more This paper looks back to the 1960s Black Power Movement in the U.S. as one of the unacknowledged antecedents of today's right to the city movements. It draws on the right to the city both as an ideal of urban governance and a critical perspective through which urban histories can be re-told and diverse social practices investigated. I am particularly interested in two 1960s federal War on Poverty programs and how they were related to black grassroots movements. In that period, the federal government gave leeway to the local expression of collective grievances by encouraging the urban poor to become stakeholders in community-level politics. Incremental urban regeneration was the War on Poverty's professed goal. To achieve this the state would devolve some of its functions to the level of the local community, bypass the unresponsive and ossified state and municipal bureaucracies, and thus gradually dismantle the racial and power inequalities. This ideological shift towards space-based politics and a recognition of the poor as collective political actors happened almost synchronously with Henri Lefebvre's articulation of the right to the city idea in France. Yet, recourse to participatory politics during the Johnson era, a fundamental tenet of the right to the city activism today, turned into a fleeting political concern with fleeting rewards to local communities. As soon as grassroots mobilization inspired the urban poor to affect change, the federal government retreated from its unprecedented support for participatory politics. Its initial commitment to the recovery of direct democracy was followed by withdrawal from local political enfranchisement-a factor that triggered the piecemeal radicalization of urban Blacks. What citizen participation was to the anti-poverty programs, community control was to Black Power activism. Grounded in the philosophy of racial empowerment which had taken root in American cities during the Garvey movement of the 1920s, Black Power of the 1960s offered a Where the War on Poverty and Black Power Meet: A Right to the City Perspectiv...

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