TENEMENT NATION

Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh CHRISTA BALLARD TOOLEY FRAMING THE GLOBAL

Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland, a closer look reveals the growth of liberal democratic ideals in the working-class population, which has a much different goal: How can this European city keep the entrepreneurial forces of globalization from commodifying what is distinctly theirs?

In Tenement Nation, Christa Ballard Tooley explores the battle for a neighborhood called the Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town Tooley's insightful study of the working-class Canongate community as they negotiate gentrification plans offers a complex view of class and nation The threat of the Canongate's redevelopment motivated many throughout Edinburgh to lend their support to the residents' campaign. Against such development projects, alliances formed between upper-class heritage supporters and working-class urban residents, all of whom turned to institutions such as the European Union and UNESCO for support in restricting commercial development

Tenement Nation explores these negotiations between socioeconomic classes and even nationalities to show what Tooley calls a "workingclass cosmopolitanism" in pursuit of social, economic, and political inclusion

AUGUST 2023

History • Europe

276 Pages • 6 x 9 • LB • 16 b&w illus.

9780253065995 • $75.00 • Hardcover

9780253066008 • $32.00 • Trade Paperback

Also available as an e-book

Christa Ballard Tooley is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Director of the Transformational Innovation Hub at Belmont University