Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on the editors
- Notes on the contributors
- Foreword
- One Introduction: ‘gentrification’ – a global urban process?
- Two Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens
- Three Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement
- Four City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi
- Five Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Six Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development
- Seven The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state
- Eight Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel
- Nine The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul
- Ten Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi
- Eleven Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features
- Twelve Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of 223 public lands by housing policies in Taipei City
- Thirteen The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey
- Fourteen Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico
- Fifteen Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon
- Sixteen Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos
- Seventeen Gentrification in China?
- Eighteen Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolicán
- Nineteen Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration
- Twenty When authoritarianism embraces gentrification – the case of Old Damascus, Syria
- Twenty-one The place of gentrification in Cape Town
- Twenty-two Conclusion: global gentrifications
- Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification
- Index
Thirteen - The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on the editors
- Notes on the contributors
- Foreword
- One Introduction: ‘gentrification’ – a global urban process?
- Two Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens
- Three Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement
- Four City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi
- Five Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Six Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development
- Seven The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state
- Eight Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel
- Nine The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul
- Ten Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi
- Eleven Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features
- Twelve Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of 223 public lands by housing policies in Taipei City
- Thirteen The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey
- Fourteen Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico
- Fifteen Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon
- Sixteen Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos
- Seventeen Gentrification in China?
- Eighteen Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolicán
- Nineteen Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration
- Twenty When authoritarianism embraces gentrification – the case of Old Damascus, Syria
- Twenty-one The place of gentrification in Cape Town
- Twenty-two Conclusion: global gentrifications
- Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The gentrification literature has long been dominated by studies of gentrification in Western European and North American cities (Lees, 2012). In addition, investigations and conceptualisations of gentrification in the Global South have tended to make use of a conceptual toolbox developed for explaining gentrification in Anglo-American cities. This ignores the various important issues that scholars have highlighted and discussed in the literature regarding the peculiarities of processes of gentrification in cities in the Global South. These include: the formalisation of hitherto informal housing and labour markets (Shin, 2009a; Winkler, 2009; Kuyucu and Unsal, 2010); the state and market making land ready for gentrification by international developers through red-lining and ground rent dispossession (López-Morales, 2011); the state's higher capacity and propensity for repression (Cabannes et al, 2010); the peripheralisation of low-income residents (Wu, 2004; He and Wu; 2007; Shin 2007; Islam, 2010); and the infiltration of clientelism into pro-gentrification policies while eliminating populist-clientelist policies for neoliberal ones (Bartu and Kolluoglu, 2008). These ‘Southern’ peculiarities deserve our scholarly attention.
Moreover, the comparative imagination in the gentrification literature has, until more recently, been restricted to the cities of the Global North (eg Lees, 1994; Slater, 2004; Carpenter and Lees, 1995), leaving cities outside of these ‘cores’ off the research agenda. Harris's (2008) comparative work on London and Mumbai was perhaps the first to counter this trend in the gentrification literature in any significant way. Likewise, Lees (2012) has underlined the need for a fresh comparative urbanism of gentrification, one that will ‘begin the task of decentring the dominant narratives of gentrification from the Global North’ (p 6), thus potentially refining gentrification theories. Indeed, a comprehensive focus on the different dynamics, actors and processes involved in gentrification in different cities, and even in the same city, is needed to shed light on the different geographies of gentrification within the Global South. To face this challenge, there is a need for a much more grounded approach in researching different geographies of gentrification. Understanding the local political contexts – the actually existing neoliberalisms in different cities/regions/countries, the role and power of the state, elite coalitions and so on – that give rise to urban policies promoting gentrification, together with research into the strategies of actors facing gentrification, is a crucial part of this grounded approach.
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- Global GentrificationsUneven Development and Displacement, pp. 245 - 264Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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