A Research Agenda for Gentrification

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A Research Agenda for Gentrification

9781800883192 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Winifred Curran, Professor of Geography, DePaul University, Chicago, US and Leslie Kern, Associate Professor, Geography and Environment, and Women’s and Gender Studies, Mount Allison University, Canada
Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80088 319 2 Extent: 258 pp
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.

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Elgar 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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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
Contributors
Contributors: Jeremy Auerbach, Helen V.S. Cole, Winifred Curran, Cara Marie DiEnno, Lauren Flemister, Ivis Garcia, David Goldberg, Euan Hague, Colleen Hammelman, Yessica Xytlalli Holguín, Alfredo Huante, Leslie Kern, Adriana Lopez, Evon Lopez, Antonio López-Gay, Carrie Makarewicz, Solange Muñoz, Dakota Murray, Sophie O''Manique, Anna Ortiz Guitart, Sinead Petrasek, Rico Quirindongo, Ramya Ramanath, Joan Sales-Favà, Jessica Villena Sanchez, Katie Sheehy, Dani Slabaugh, Miguel Solana-Solana, Emma Spruce, Brennon Staley, Patrice Thomas, Steven Tuttle, Elizabeth Walsh, Nicolas Welch
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Contents:

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)

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