Date of Award

2017

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Hernandez, Sarah

Area of Concentration

Sociology

Abstract

In my research I identify competing frames of discourse surrounding art and urban displacement in a contested development project in the DC Office of Zoning (DCOZ). This thesis follows “411 Artist’s Union”, a group of artists and cultural workers protesting to preserve their grassroots art studio, performance and commercial space and prevent a boutique hotel project planned by the new owners of the building. I use a frame analysis to examine case documents and the transcripts of DCOZ hearings and meetings of the months the case was heard (October 2015- June 2016). I examine the tension between cultural development strategies that commodify certain art forms and the artists resisting the displacement that often coincides with redevelopment.

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