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Gentrificering og mytomani

Det nye København i Jan Sonnergaards Frysende våde vejbaner

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Abstract

Inspired by contemporary urban sociology and spatial theory this article explores how Jan Sonnergaard in his novel Frysende våde vejbaner (2015) depicts and criticizes the gentrification of Copenhagen. I argue that Sonnergaard, through the main protagonist Jesper, demonstrates a double perception of the gentrified city, respectively an ‘excluded’ and an ‘included’ variant. Through this technique Sonnergaard firstly explores how the city has become a ‘non-place’ for those who do not have the capacities to participate in the new urban middleclass-culture and secondly what kind of social mechanisms that are at play within the same urban middleclass. The article concludes with a discussion of how the main character Jesper may also be ignorant of his own role as gentrifier due to his self-image as an urban bohemian, his idolizing of countercultural music and fiction, and his ownership of a flat in a housing cooperative.

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Published Online: 2022-10-14
Published in Print: 2022-10-31

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