Gentrification and the Media Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change

Stéphane Sadoux is a town planner and an historian. He graduated from the Universities of Oxford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Grenoble. He is a past Director of Unité de Recherche AE&CC at the Grenoble School of Architecture (ENSAG), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). He is currently leading UGA’s Excellence in Architecture programme (LabEx). Marie-Pierre Vincent is a senior lecturer of British studies at Paris 1–Panthéon Sorbonne and affiliated with the European Centre of Sociology and Political Science. Her thesis focused on anti-gentrification resistance in Hoxton/Shoreditch in London (2008–2019). Her work also relates to art and anti-gentrification activism, political discourse and gentrification, and socio-cultural diversity. David Fée is professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He specializes in housing policy in the UK. He has co-edited several books including Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost (Emerald, 2021). Louise Dalingwater is professor of British Studies at Sorbonne University, Paris. She specializes in the service sector, notably financial services and public services. Some of her work has looked at the spatial dimension of service industries such as financial service location.