CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Hajnal-Smith, Csilla |
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| Title | From the Mariahilfer Strasse of Ujlipotvaros to the Berlin Wall of Angyalfold: Ageing in two Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Budapest |
| Summary | Abstract The thesis takes old age as the investigative lens through which neighbourhood change is observed and interpreted in Budapest. I seek to understand the relationship between ageing and the immediate social environment in two gentrifying neighbourhoods of the city. Furthermore, the thesis aims to identify the different characteristics of the processes of gentrification in the two neighbourhoods of the city, and in Budapest itself. Surprisingly, older people’s experiences have largely been neglected in studies of gentrification. Drawing on in-depth life story interviews conducted with five older residents in two neighbourhoods of Budapest, Újlipótváros and Angyalföld, I apply biographical research method to bring individual experiences in the centre of my study. By interrogating these personal narratives, I argue that my informants’ experiences of old age are very different, therefore they develop diverse strategies to respond to the changes in their social environments, and to maintain the continuity of their self amidst the vicissitudes of ageing. As far as the processes of gentrification are concerned, I conclude that gentrification are more nuanced and consensual in the two neighbourhoods in focus of the study than some other areas of the city, and and than that of the North American experience most urban theorists describe. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta and Cucu, Alina-Sandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/hajnal-smith_csilla.pdf |
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