This introduction to Shona Macnaughton’s artwork Progressive (2017) was created by Kirsten Lloyd, School of History of Art, The University of Edinburgh.

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Resources

Art and the City

• Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan, ‘The Fine Art of Gentrification’, October 31 (1984): 91–111. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles, ‘No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City’, Mute, 2009, https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-room-to-move-radical-art-and-regenerate-city.
• Richard Florida, ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’, Washington Monthly, May 2002, https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/may-2002/the-rise-of-the-creative-class/.

Gender and Gentrification

• Kirsteen Paton, Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
• Winifred Curran, Gender and Gentrification (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2017).

Questions for Group Work

1. What links does the artist draw between her own body and the environment, and to what ends?
2. Is neoliberal urbanism a concern for feminist struggle?

Additional References

• Liz Bondi, ‘Gender Divisions and Gentrification: A Critique’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16, no. 2 (1991): 190–98.
• Catriona Burness, ‘Remember Mary Barbour’, Scottish Labour History 50 (2015): 81–96.
• Neil Gray, ed., Rent and Its Discontents (London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018).
• Neil Gray and Gerry Mooney, ‘Glasgow’s New Urban Frontier: “Civilising” the Population of “Glasgow East”’, City 15, no. 1 (2011): 4–24.
• Hamish Kallin, ‘Opening the Reputational Gap’, in Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment: The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma, ed. Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tije-Dra (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 103–18.
• Leslie Kern, ‘From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 1 (2015): 67–83
• Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (London ; New York: Pluto Press, 2011).

Licence

This resource is licensed CC BY NC ND, Kirsten Lloyd, University of Edinburgh, 2021.

All images, unless otherwise stated: Shona Macnaughton, Progressive (2017) performance documentation. Photography Matthew Williams. University of Edinburgh Art Collection. CC BY NC ND.

Header image Abstract Urban Gray Pattern by Sherrie Thai, CC BY, Flickr.