Gentrification around the World, Volume II

Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and displacement in the abstract and “on-the-ground.” Chapters examine, among other topics, social class, development, im/migration, housing, race relations, political economy, power dynamics, inequality, displacement, social segregation, homogenization, urban policy, planning, and design. The qualitative methodologies used in each chapter—which emphasize ethnographic, participatory, and visual approaches that interrogate the representation of gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass media—are themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying gentrification and its consequences worldwide.

Chapter 1.  Introduction.- Global North.- North America.- Chapter 2.  Life on the Algorithmic Estate: The Neo-Feudal Logic of Corporate Sovereignty.- Chapter 3. New Business in the Old Neighborhood: Young Polish Shopkeepers’ Responses to Commercial Gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.- Europe.- Chapter 4. Social transformation and urban regeneration in the context of a mid-sized city: three interpretations on the phenomenon of gentrification in the historic centre of A Coruña (Spain).- Chapter 5. Shimmering Surfaces, Toxic Atmospheres, Incendiary Miracles: Public Housing and the Aesthetics of Re-valorisation in Salford UK.- Chapter 6. The anti-displacement urban social movements in Lisbon: a perspective from the trenches of the fight against transnational gentrification.- Chapter 7. The Politics of Visibility: Gentrification and Immigration in East London.- Chapter 8. MyyrYork – rejuvenating a housing estate neighborhood for the next generation of residents.- Global South.- Africa.- Chapter 9. Revanchist Kigali: Retro-Victorian Urbanism and the Gentrification of a 21^st Century Metropolis.- South America.- Chapter 10. Tools for Citizen Participation in Segmented Societies. The Case of Barranco..- Chapter 11. Gentrification Processes in the City of Buenos Aires: New Features and Old Tendencies.- South Asia.- Chapter 12. Gentrification and Post-industrial Spatial Restructuring in Calcutta, India.- Chapter 13. The Systemic Gentrification of Education in India:  A Media Case Study.