Gentrification as a Global Strategy (eBook, ePUB)

Neil Smith and Beyond
Redaktion: Albet, Abel; Benach, Núria

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book memorializes the work of one of Geography's leading, critical thinkers and a public intellectual known world-wide: Neil Smith. It presents a rich collection of insights from leading international and interdisciplinary experts, drawing on Neil Smith's ideas for inspiration and debate. This book demonstrates the relevance and usefulness

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315307497
• Artikelnr.: 48785970

Autorenporträt

Abel Albet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Núria Benach is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part 1: Neil Smith: A Tribute 1. Neil Smith and gentrification 2.
A political-geographic project against capitalism: an essay on the work of
Neil Smith 3. The apocryphal diary of Neil Smith Part 2: On Gentrification
and the Rent Gap Theory 4. The state of gentrification has always been
extra-economic 5. Gentrification: disaster, necessity, opportunity? Notes
for a critical use of the concept 6. Towards a theory of gentrination:
global capital flows and the reshaping of the global semi-periphery. The
cases of Greece and Brazil 7. Making rent gap theory not true 8. Rent gap
theory is a political resource Part 3: Dispossession and Class Struggle
9. From Boise to Budapest: capital circulation, compound capitalist
destruction, and the persistence of homelessness 10. Revanchism, ignorance
and class struggle in austerity Britain 11. The class gap in
gentrification: a political reading of the rent gap hypothesis 12. The new
urban frontier of everyday evictions: contemporary state practices of
revanchism 13. Capturing urban rent through evictions: home dispossessions
in the historic centre of Palma (Majorca) Part 4: Policies and Strategies
14. Financialised rent gaps and the public interest in Berlin's housing
crisis: reflections on N. Smith's 'generalised gentrification' 15. Beyond
the 'revanchist city': when public policies softly support gentrification
in the name of social mix. The case of Inner Paris 16. Urban regeneration,
rent and labour: insights from Barcelona's 'Knowledge District' 17. A
disappearing world: the ever-expanding 'frontier of gentrification' through
the eyes of Porto's historic centre long-time residents 18. Architecture of
violence: 'anti-beggar architecture' as the 'eureka' of urban regeneration
Part 5: Activism and Resistance 19. The urban frontier: gentrification as
ideology and class politics in the remaking of marginal urban space 20.
Alternative geographies for social action in Medellín 21. Alternative
narratives from an invisible city: gentrification, counter-proposals, and
women activism 22. The onslaught against the Greek squatting movement and
the value that it produced 23. Revanchism and the racial state: Ferguson as
'internal colony' Part 6: Neil Smith and Beyond 24. Gentrification and the
urban struggle: Neil Smith and beyond