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In this chapter, Bronstein examines how arts organizations have long attended to our collective relationships to gentrification, venue displacement, urban sprawl and colonial concepts of land valuation and place. These interests compel larger questions around the ethical and political implications of occupying certain spaces or of being excluded from them. Given that affordable space to make and see art is becoming increasingly rare in many cities, these considerations continue to take on a certain level of urgency. As such, Bronstein considers the conceptual and physical ways in which arts organizations navigate displacement.
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Bronstein, N. (2021). From Place-Making to Placelessness: How Arts Organizations Attend to Issues of Displacement and Affordability. In: Blair, G., Bronstein, N. (eds) The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55389-0_2
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