Interested in reading more about the research that went into our study? Check out the links below!
Bolan, Peter, et al. “‘We’ve Seen It in the Movies, Let’s See If It’s True’ Authenticity and Displacement in Film-Induced Tourism.” Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, vol. 3, no. 2, 2011, pp. 102–16, https://doi.org/10.1108/17554211111122970.
This paper combines past literature and key-informant interviews to create an overview of displacement from a film tourism perspective. According to the authors of this paper, the purpose of their research is to investigate “displacement theory” within the larger phenomenon of film-induced tourism. This resource is important because it provides a critique of the inherent implications and opportunities for economic development caused by film tourism. In terms of our project, this source contributes to our investigation of possible community displacement/disruption in Georgia brought on by the growing film industry there.
Bradbury, John Charles. “A Comment on Georgia Department of Economic Development Report: The Economic Impact of the Film Industry in Georgia.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3526169.
This article serves the purpose of critiquing the 2020 economic impact report (Meek Report) commissioned by Georgia Department of Economic Development on the economic impact of the film industry in Georgia. This resource is important because it refutes multiple claims about the benefits of the film industry in Georgia (employment, wage, economy, etc.) and argues that the film industry is not a major driver of economic output or jobs in the state. This source contributes to our project by highlighting the negative impacts of the movie industry on the communities in Georgia.
Bradbury, John Charles. “Can movie production incentives grow the economy? evidence from Georgia and North Carolina.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3432035.
This study critically examines the economic impact of film production incentives in Georgia and North Carolina, using the synthetic control method to analyze whether these incentives lead to economic growth. It challenges the common assumption that film production incentives automatically result in economic benefits, providing a nuanced analysis of their actual impact on state economies. The findings of this study are pivotal for understanding the broader economic implications of the film industry in Georgia, particularly in relation to community displacement and economic transformation, by providing evidence-based analysis on the effectiveness of film incentives.
Chapman, Nathaniel G., et al. “Gentrification and the Making of Craft Beer White Spaces.” Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It, 1st ed., Bristol University Press, 2020, pp. 131–54, JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17ppc9f.12.
This is a chapter from a book connecting beer to racism and whiteness, where the authors talks about how craft beers are typically designed and shared in gentrified spaces. This chapter is important because it expounds on the effects of gentrification, namely racial displacement and exclusion. This article is important for our research because it gives us an understanding of how racial displacement and gentrification are intertwined as two sides of the same coin and gives us a humanities basis for why it’s important to study race when talking about gentrification. This chapter also talks about craft beer as a commodity that generates white community in a way that parallels tourism well, making it relevant to our work and questions.
Cornett, Ariel. “In what ways does the entertainment industry impact Georgia?” Teaching Social Studies in the Peach State, vol. 1, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1–21, https://doi.org/10.20429/sspeach.2023.010104.
The article explores the multifaceted impacts of the entertainment industry in Georgia, focusing on economic, geographic, and sociocultural dimensions. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how the entertainment industry influences various aspects of life in Georgia, which can serve as a model for understanding industry impacts in other regions. This study offers insights into the broader consequences of the entertainment industry in Georgia, potentially highlighting displacement or other community-level changes relevant to your research on the film industry’s impact.
Garland, P. “Atlanta: Black Mecca of the South.” Ebony, vol. 26, no. 10, 1971, pp. 152–157, https://books.google.com/books?id=DNwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA152&pg=PA152#v=onepage&q&f=false
This is an article written for Ebony magazine in 1971 about the socioeconomic and racial progress Atlanta was experiencing after the civil rights movement. This article shared a hugely empathetic and optimistic perspective on the course of integration between black and white Americans with Atlanta as center stage for such progress. Because the article celebrates Atlanta and celebrates it as a haven for black Americans, it provides a unique image of what the city is capable of, despite its centuries-long struggles with structural racism. It also recharacterizes our research and evidence of gentrification as a regression from a path Atlanta seemed to be on.
“Georgia’s Sizzle Reel Puts Spotlight on Community, Economic Benefits of Industry.” Georgia’s Sizzle Reel Puts Spotlight on Community, Economic Benefits of Industry | Georgia Department of Economic Development, 12 July 2021, www.georgia.org/blog/georgias-sizzle-reel-puts-spotlight-community-economic-benefits-industry.
This article highlights the significant role of Georgia in the film and TV production industry, emphasizing its economic and community benefits. This article is important because it shows how Georgia’s film industry is positively impacting various communities across the state, generating economic growth, providing job opportunities, and other. This resource provides valuable information and examples of the economic and community impacts of the film industry in Georgia, which can be utilized for our group understanding of the film industry in Georgia.
Grodach, C., Foster, N., & Murdoch, J. “Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change.” Urban Studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), vol. 55, no. 4, 2018, pp. 807–825, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016680169.
This article emphasizes the complexity of the relationship between the arts, gentrification, and displacement. Similarly, in a research project exploring how the film industry causes community displacement, this article could offer valuable insights into the multifaceted nature of the arts-led gentrification narrative. By employing a statistical study of neighborhood-level arts industry activity in large U.S. regions, the article challenges the conventional view that artists merely facilitate gentrification and displacement. The findings suggest that the relationship between the arts and neighborhood change is nuanced and context-dependent, indicating that a one-size-fits-all approach may not be applicable to contemporary arts-gentrification processes. Incorporating this research into the film industry study could contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the diverse and sometimes conflicting roles that cultural industries, including film, play in urban development and community displacement.
Guinand, E. B. M. G.-B. A. S. Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises: International Perspectives, 1st ed., Routledge, 2017, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315629759.
Gentrification often results from increased tourism and the influx of capital into urban areas, leading to rising property values and the displacement of existing communities. The perspectives presented in the article may offer insights into the dynamics between tourism, gentrification, and the resultant impact on local communities. By examining international perspectives, the research project can benefit from a broader understanding of how these issues manifest across different cultural and urban contexts, providing a comprehensive framework for analyzing the role of the film industry in exacerbating or mitigating community displacement in various metropolises.
Gotham, Kevin Fox. “Assessing and Advancing Research on Tourism Gentrification.” Via [Online], vol. 13, 2018, posted online September 1, 2018, http://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/2169; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/viatourism.2169.
This article assesses and advances research on the concept of tourism gentrification. The resource is important because it discusses how the concept of tourism gentrification has been influential in transforming empirical and theoretical research on the causes and consequences of gentrification in cities around the world. This resource could help our thesis work by providing background and context on the concept of tourism gentrification. It discusses how the concept has been adapted and applied in diverse case studies, highlighting different relationships between tourism and urban change. It also suggests ways the concept could be further refined and used to analyze different forms and drivers of gentrification which can help us narrow down what parts of the data specifically to examine.
Hanser, Amy, and Zachary Hyde. “Foodies Remaking Cities.” Contexts, vol. 13, no. 3, 2014, pp. 44–49, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24710551.
This is a journal article that talks about how the creation, spread, and perception of “good food” has allowed cities to generate wealth, potentially at the cost of inciting gentrification. This article is important because it relates food tourism to gentrification, while also trying to reconcile the advantage of drawing in tourism and making a city stable with attractive food. This article will help us relate social perceptions of race and attraction to tourism. The article talks about how non-American foods are perceived and will help us better understand displacement against tourism.
Lee, Thomas. “Perspectives on Film-Induced Tourism.” Film-Induced Tourism, 31 Dec. 2016, pp. 23–50, https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845415853-005.
This thesis examines the multifaceted impacts of film-induced tourism in Georgia, analyzing both qualitative and quantitative benefits. It provides an in-depth look into how film production contributes to tourism growth, regional image enhancement, and economic development in Georgia. The thesis offers valuable insights into the broader effects of the film industry in Georgia, which could be instrumental in understanding the dynamics of community displacement and economic shifts due to film production activities.
Lin, Jan. “Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti-Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles.” Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City, edited by Christoph Lindner and Gerard F. Sandoval, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 199–220, JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hp5hpc.13.
This is a chapter from a book which talks about Los Angeles as an attractive hotspot for gentrification and the artistic communities that are opposed to those developments. This chapter is important because it explores Los Angeles as a desirable city to sprawl from and gentrify, but also characterizes its greatest proponents as thieves of culture and art. This is important to our research because of the connection it makes to hipsters. We can argue in our paper that hipsters are “cultural tourists”, unaware of greater historical contexts for certain cultural practices, whose tourism manifests as a literal and physical gentrification of these spaces and peoples.
“Mapping Inequality.” Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, University of Richmond, 11 Dec. 2023, https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/map/GA/Atlanta/areas#mapview=full&loc=11/33.7534/-84.3563.
This is a database of historical redlining maps for the majority of cities in America. Each city contains a spatial map of redlining neighborhood divisions, rankings on the financial security of the neighborhoods within it, and digitized versions of archival information detailing the reasoning behind the rankings. This source is important because it can reveal a history of systemic racism and structural racial divisions in the city of Atlanta. This source contributes to our project by reflecting the current racial divisions in Atlanta and revealing the historical explanation as to why community displacement is possible today.
Martin, Leslie. “Fighting for Control: Political Displacement in Atlanta’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods.” Urban Affairs Review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), vol. 42, no. 5, 2007, pp. 603–28, https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087406296604.
This article outlines the ongoing process of gentrification in Atlanta and the reasons behind why some neighborhoods are able to combat it or not. This resource is important because it looks at gentrification on a more community scale in Georgia which highlights the specific groups of people that are being displaced. In terms of our project, this source is important because it provides an up close look at gentrification in Georgia and outlines exactly how people are being displaced by it and who is being displaced by it.
Neef, A. Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement: The Darker Side of the Feel-Good Industry, 1st ed., Routledge, 2021, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429340727.
The book “Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement” is a crucial resource for a research project exploring how the film industry causes community displacement. It provides a global perspective on the less explored and darker aspects of tourism, highlighting how tourism-related grabbing of land and natural resources can lead to widespread dispossession and displacement of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities in the Global South. By examining more than thirty case studies from various regions, including Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the Southwest Pacific, the book delves into the actors, drivers, mechanisms, discourses, and impacts of tourism-related land grabbing. Including this research in a study on the film industry’s impact on community displacement can provide a broader context and insights into the systemic issues of land rights infringements, diverse forms of resistance against tourism-related land grabs, and the accountability of those violating local land and resource rights.
O’malley, Isabella, and Jennifer McDermott. “In Hawaii, Concerns over ‘climate Gentrification’ Rise after Devastating Maui Fires.” AP News, AP News, 19 Aug. 2023, apnews.com/article/maui-hawaii-fire-climate-gentrification-housing-displacement-aa827eabef48d2764aa58d01f7a6969c.
This article is an Associated Press news article about concerns over ‘climate gentrification’ rising after devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. The article is important because it provides relevant context, facts, and expert analysis about the potential issue of climate gentrification happening in Maui after the destructive wildfires. The article specifically provides details and quotes that help support the thesis that the Maui wildfires could lead to climate gentrification as housing becomes less affordable for local residents, while development interests seek to take advantage of the situation. It discusses past examples of this phenomenon and views from those studying climate gentrification. This can help us better understand what we find in our data and the context behind it.
Way, et al. “Uprooted: Residential Displacement in Austin’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods and What Can Be Done About It.” The Uprooted Project, 2018, https://sites.utexas.edu/gentrificationproject/..austin-uprooted-report-maps/.
This report, published by a team at the University of Texas at Austin, outlines the gentrification that is currently occurring in Austin, Texas and the community displacement as a result of it. This source is important because it concerns the topic of gentrification and its effects on the native residents of the city. This source is significant for our project because it can serve as a complimentary example of gentrification and community displacement as a result of industry in another American city. This report can help us show that this issue is not confined to Atlanta.
Weyrauch, Emily. “The Home Team Film Tackles Displacement in Vine City and English Avenue.” ARTS ATL, ARTS ATL, 13 May 2019, www.artsatl.org/the-home-team-film-tackles-displacement-in-vine-city-and-english-avenue/.
This article focuses on giving insight into “The Home Team”, a documentary/film by Camille Pendley that explores displacement and gentrification in the neighborhoods of English Avenue and Vine City in Atlanta, Georgia. The article is important because the documentary serves as a platform for residents to voice their concerns about the impact of development projects like the Mercedes-Benz Stadium(SuperBowl) in their communities, highlighting issues of equity and social justice. With this article in mind, it allows us to have firsthand accounts and perspectives from residents in Georgia that are affected by displacement and gentrification, providing valuable insight and context for our analysis.
Williams, King. “What Makes This Era of Atlanta’s Gentrification Different?” Atlanta Civic Circle, 3 Mar. 2022, atlantaciviccircle.org/2022/03/03/what-makes-this-era-of-atlantas-gentrification-different-%EF%BF%BC/.
This article discusses the current state of gentrification and affordable housing issues in metro Atlanta. It is important as it provides context on how gentrification has evolved and spread in the Atlanta region over decades, and the unique challenges the region now faces. The article provides useful background information on the history and drivers of gentrification in Atlanta, how it has recently become a regional issue impacting surrounding counties, and proposes some potential policy solutions to address affordable housing shortages. This context and discussion of policies could help inform and support our findings.
Zahirovic-Herbert, Velma. “The Effect of Film Production Studios on Housing Prices In …” SAGE Journals, 29 July 2021, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980211024156.
This article highlights the significant impacts of the effect of film production studios on housing prices in Atlanta, Georgia. This article is important because it shows how Georgia’s film industry is negatively impacting various communities across the state, especially when it comes down to property. This resource provides valuable information and examples of the economic and community impacts of the film industry in Georgia, which can be utilized for our group to understand the effects of the film industry in Georgia.