Progress in Human Geography· 2019Q1
Moving beyond Marcuse: Gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing
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Short summary
Gentrification causes displacement by 'un-homing' people, severing their connection to place, which is a form of violence that needs better documentation and resistance.
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Key points
- Displacement due to gentrification is defined as 'un-homing', a rupture of the connection between people and place.
- This process of un-homing is identified as a form of violence.
- The paper argues for better documentation of the diverse scales and temporalities of displacement.
- The ultimate goal is to better understand and resist the negative emotional, psychosocial, and material impacts of displacement.
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Abstract
Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range of scales. Given its frequent deployment in studies describing the consequences of gentrification, this paper seeks to better define and conceptualise displacement as a process of un-homing, noting that while gentrification can prompt processes of eviction, expulsion and exclusion operating at different scales and speeds, it always ruptures the connection between people and place. On this basis – and recognising displacement as a form of violence – this paper concludes that the diverse scales and temporalities of displacement need to be better elucidated so that their negative emotional, psychosocial and material impacts can be more fully documented, and resisted.
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Field: Urban Studies
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