This week, I interviewed three out of the 20 contributors to the collaborative book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City.

Joshua was also one of the editors, along with Alison Hope Alkon and Yuki Kato. We had a very thought provoking conversation about gentrification, and how culture, racism, and food, all play a part in the urban takeover.  They shared stories of community resilience, against the power and profit of developers. There are ways of working with an existing community to improve the experience for the people already living there by listening and including them in a collaborative process. The problem with most gentrification is it is profit driven by people who have the power. It is the process of how it is done, “for whom” and “by whom”, that is the problem.

If you missed our interview, you can listen to it below.

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