El Centro, Spring 2022
2021-22 CLR FACULTY FELLOW Dr.Carolina Sternberg
Dr. Sternberg’s main areas of research and teaching combine urban studies, Latin American studies, and urban policies in both U.S. and Latin American settings. Her work has examined the relationship between neoliberal urban governance and gentrification in Buenos Aires and Chicago, separately and in comparative analysis. Recently, she has focused her work on the relationship between gentrification and race in African American and Latinx communities in Chicago. INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY GRADUATE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, AMANDA MATTHEWS
What can you tell us about the project your Fellowship focuses on, "Neoliberal Urban Governance. Spaces, Culture and Discourses in Buenos Aires and Chicago"?
constitutes a critical tool to help build coherence and normalcy for neoliberal policies and redevelopment projects gain traction successfully.
In addition, my work supports the notion that neoliberal urban policies operate distinctively First of all, I’d like to thank you and the director across urban spaces, and each one uses of CLR for creating this wonderful and distinctive rhetoric to advance its projects. informative newsletter, and for inviting me to share a bit of my research with you and the DePaul community. My book project is an outgrowth of my doctoral dissertation, and it explores the way neoliberal urban policies & gentrification-led redevelopment projects in the Global North (e.g., Chicago) and South (e.g., Buenos Aires) are increasingly advanced and are successful by mobilizing powerful rhetoric. I argue that this rhetoric (including metaphors, common understandings, imagined spaces) 17
