Unit1

Unit 1 Gentrification & Colonialism

10:00 - 10:45 Introduction ~ mapping gentrification

John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood (1991)

What is gentrification?

Who has experienced or witnessed displacement because of gentrification? Also think if you were complicit in gentrification in some way?
What types of contracts you had, where did you move and for which reasons?
Do you have a workspace or studio?

How is displacement enacted?

Let’s map the characters and stages of gentrification

10.45 – 11.30 Discuss texts

Essay: “De Rekening van de Rotterdamwet”, in Vers Beton

Article: “Dat jij geen woning kan vinden is niet de schuld van migranten, maar van woonbeleid”, in One World

What is the result of the policy? How is violence and displacement effected?
How is discrimination embedded in the legal structure and how it enacts power?
Which quote stands out the most for you in the articles?

What is colonial logic? How does gentrification perpetuate and naturalize a colonial logic?

Do you know other examples of such policies?

Short video: Al Jazeera, Palestinian woman confronting Israeli settler (2021)

11.45 – 13.00 Horror movie as a genre and a fiction device to record violence.

Discuss film excerpts: Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist (1982)

Excerpt 1: "They are here"

Excerpt 2: "Move your set"

Excerpt 3: "It's just people"

Excerpt 4: "You left the Bodies"

Discuss excerpts from Mary Lambert, Pet Sematary (1989)

What are the tropes and narrative devices? How are the characters being represented? What is the function of haunting? How is haunting resistance to colonial structures and gentrification?