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Housing Displacement Conceptual and Methodological Issues

226 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice – a central issue in urban injustices. With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Hungary, this book explores how housing displacement processes are more... Read more

Introduction. Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Emil Pull, Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn and Maria Persdotter

1. Council Estate Renewal in London: The Challenges of Evidencing its Gentrification-Induced Displacement

Phil Hubbard and Loretta Lees

2. Overcoming the Limits of Theory: Conceptual Musings on Displacement

Ipsita Chatterjee

3. A Landscape of Post-Gentrification? A Renovation Case in Sweden

Emil Pull

4. Emotional Displacement: Misrecognition, Symbolic Violence, and Loss of Place

Chiara Valli

5. The Biopolitics of Displacement: Komfortfokozat, Racism, and Post-Socialist Gentrification in Budapest’s Eighth District

Jonathan McCombs

6. Speculating Upon San Francisco’s Futurity: From Shell Company Evictions to Decolonial Action

Erin McElroy

7. Keeping Out the Poor: Banishment as an Urban Renewal Strategy

Guy Baeten and Carina Listerborn

8. Common Resistance Against State-Led Stigmatization and Displacement

Louise Fabian and Anders Lund Hansen

9. Housing Displacement in Australian Cities: A Brisbane Case Study

Anne-Sophie Iotti

10. Green Gentrification and Displacement in Barcelona

Melissa García-Lamarca, James Connolly, and Isabelle Anguelovski

11. A Dialogue on Displacement as Entwined Colonialism

Matt Hern and Lisa K. Bates

Conclusion. Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Maria Persdotter, Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn and Emil Pull

Biography

Guy Baeten is Professor of Urban Studies at Malmo University, Sweden, and is the Director of the newly established Institute for Urban Research. He is the principal investigator of the FORMAS Strong Research Environment CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub). His research interests are in urban development and
urban sustainability.

Carina Listerborn is a Professor in urban planning at Malmo University, Sweden. She is part of the strong research environment CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub), and Vice-Chair of the Institute for Urban Research. Research interests are feminist urban theory, public spaces, neo-Liberal planning, and housing inequalities.

Maria Persdotter is a post-doctoral researcher in welfare law at Linkoping University, Sweden. Her research interests span the fields of legal geography, critical race-, and migration studies. She holds a double PhD degree in Urban Studies from Malmo University and Roskilde University.

Emil Pull is a PhD candidate in urban planning at Malmo University, Sweden. He is part of the strong research environment CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub). Research interests are critical urban geography, critical phenomenology, and housing inequalities.