Gentrification as a Global Strategy: Neil Smith and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367219123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Abel Albet; Nuria Benach

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.