News, Neoliberalism, and Miami's Fragmented Urban Space

by Moses Shumow, Robert E. Gutsche Jr. Florida Atlantic Universi, Juliet Pinto (Foreword by)

Overview

News, Neoliberalism, and Miami’s Fragmented Urban Space examines cultural and social forces responsible for inequalities that have emerged in the rampant development of Miami as a “world city.” This book argues that neoliberal movements rely on the power of journalistic discourses to authorize and legitimize harmful social acts such as gentrification. Moses Shumow and Robert E. Gutsche Jr. provide original analyses of intersections among memory, race, capitalism, and journalistic power, particularly at a time of immense political and environmental change. The authors examine changes in neighborhoods and in public-private developments that are bound to widen an already-great divide between classes and races in South Florida.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498501996
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	11/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	28 MB
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About the Author

Moses Shumow is associate professor in the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University.

Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is assistant professor in the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University.

Table of Contents

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Forward: Seeing Miami Among Rising Seas

Introduction: Miami, Neoliberalism, and Fragmented Spaces

Chapter 1: Place and Press as Tools of Neoliberal Hegemony

Chapter 2: Merging Memory in News of a New Cuba

Chapter 3: Miami’s Neoliberal Cities Upon a Hill

Chapter 4:The Struggle for Digital Space in Geographies of Marginalization

Conclusion: Meanings of ‘Miami No More’

References

About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

The authors show the value of applying a critical lens to extract and examine the fragmented meanings of Miami. They reveal how power structures, ideologies and media narratives influence and perpetuate inequalities; how city grid lines serve as symbolic dividers that also permeate into digital spaces. The book reveals the advancement of a neo-liberal agenda that —at first glance— may appear as 'natural' as the limestone bedrock upon which the region sits.

Kristy Hess

Shumow and Gutsche Jr. take their readers through the streets of Miami as informed, critical, but also inquisitive flaneurs.. .. A fascinating and thought-provoking read for anyone interested in politics of space, at the juncture of media and the city.

Myria Georgiou

This is a rare book that does justice to this city’s contradictions. As they consider Miami’s boom and bust real estate cycles; its immigrant enclaves; and its precarious position on the eroding coastline, Shumow and Gutsche Jr. suggest that this ‘crazy uncle’ of American urbanism can also be understood as an exemplary case of urban neoliberalization.

Elizabeth Strom

This is a richly researched book that offers an original perspective on the relationship between the news media and the inequalities that set apart contemporary cities.. .. Through their provocative and accessible writing on pervasive market-based rhetorics of place, Shumow and Gutsche Jr. make an important contribution to urban communication scholarship.

Giorgia Aiello