Worth the Wait and Hype? Gentrification, Anxiety, and the Hipster Geographies of Boutique Ice Cream

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dc.contributor.advisorBain, Alison L.
dc.contributor.authorMark, Bryan James
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:06:52Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:06:52Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:06:50Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractIn the opening decades of the twenty-first century, gentrification continues to upscale city fabrics, including their retail landscapes, beyond recognition. The ongoing expansion of boutique shops and aestheticized commerce displacing longtime stores and ordinary services increasingly signals new geographies of hipster retailing dominating the marketplace of local shopping streets in old inner-city areas. The qualitative analysis of this Master’s thesis traces the socio-spatial articulation of new hipster geographies within retail gentrification processes by offering a cultural critique of an ice-cream boutique located on Ossington Avenue in downtown Toronto, attending to material and digital dynamics of urban production and consumption. At the same time, this Master’s thesis locates the presence of anxiety within contemporary urban change. Shedding light on the phenomenon of 'queuing' outside of the independent ice-cream shop, my research reveals how anxiety underpins popular identity performances on Instagram and animates the experience of actors on the gentrifying street.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41304
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subject.keywordsGentrification
dc.subject.keywordsAnxiety
dc.subject.keywordsSocial media
dc.subject.keywordsOssington Avenue
dc.titleWorth the Wait and Hype? Gentrification, Anxiety, and the Hipster Geographies of Boutique Ice Cream
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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