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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Offering a new theoretical framework for understanding gentrification and displacement, this timely Research Agenda focuses on resistance as the central research area in this subject field.
Arguing that the future of gentrification research should focus on accomplishing the end of gentrification, chapters provide practical organizing and policy strategies using international case studies which are rooted in community-based research.
Encouraging researchers to find inspiration in new methods, sites and questions for exploring resistance, this Research Agenda seeks to empower communities and cities to reclaim urban life and city space for people by examining key issues such as housing insecurity and lived reality versus policy and practice.
Graduate students and researchers of geography, urban planning and urban sociology will find the use of case studies informative and thought-provoking. The suggested practical strategies will also be beneficial for urban planners and policymakers to fight displacement and slow gentrification.
Trade Review‘This remarkable and eminently readable Research Agenda brings into view pragmatic and diverse strategies for stemming gentrification. In emphasizing little-understood frontiers of gentrification activism, including radical forms of counter-cartography, the queering of housing politics, and state-mandated rent regulation and affordable housing, this book is an invaluable—and hopeful—contribution to global gentrification scholarship.’ -- Malini Ranganathan, American University, US
Recognising gentrification is ultimately a process that displaces the poor and marginal. This Research Agenda argues that it is not enough to simply diagnose the geographies of gentrification, but that we need to prescribe solutions. Showing that grounded knowledge of gentrification’s intersection with class, race and sexuality can help inform strategies of resistance, this is an internationally-relevant book which flags exciting new directions in gentrification scholarship and activism.’ -- Philip Hubbard, King's College, London, UK
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Gentrification 1 Winifred Curran and Leslie Kern PART I ORGANIZING AROUND THE UNDEREXPLORED IN GENTRIFICATION RESEARCH 2 A queer theory of housing politics: on gentrification and chrononormativity 17 Emma Spruce 3 Social reproduction in the gentrified city: resisting displacement in marketized Toronto 39 Sophie O’Manique and Sinéad Petrasek 4 Taking race seriously in gentrification research 63 Steven Tuttle and Alfredo Huante 5 Uncovering invisibilities in gentrification processes 81 Colleen Hammelman PART II EVERYDAY RESISTANCE: FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE TO POLICY AND PRACTICE 6 Moving beyond gentrification: regenerative mapping for geographies of radical resilience 103 Elizabeth Walsh, Evon Lopez, Jeremy Auerbach, Cara Marie DiEnno, Yessica Xytlalli Holguín, Adriana Lopez, Carrie Makarewicz, Solange Muñoz, Jessica Villena Sanchez and Dani Slabaugh 7 Never not organizing: long resistance and the fight against gentrification in Pilsen, Chicago 129 Winifred Curran and Euan Hague 8 Housing insecurity, lived reality, and the right to stay put in a gentrified southern European neighborhood: the case of Sant Antoni in Barcelona 151 Antonio López-Gay, Miguel Solana-Solana, Joan Sales-Favà, Helen V.S. Cole and Anna Ortiz-Guitart 9 Agents of change or maintenance women? Networks of control among women in a resettlement colony for former basti dwellers 173 Ramya Ramanath 10 Community development corporations collectivize to stay in place: lessons from Chicago’s Northwest Side 191 Ivis García 11 City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development’s Understanding of and Approach to Displacement 211 City of Seattle OPCD Staff (Brennon Staley, Nicolas Welch, David Goldberg, Patrice Thomas, Katie Sheehy, Dakota Murray, Rico Quirindongo, and Lauren Flemister) Index 231
