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AAG 2005
Final call for Papers
GLOBAL GENTRIFICATION
Denver, Colorado, 5-9 April 2005
(http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_for_papers/call_for_papers1.html)
Darren P. Smith, Geography Division, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2
4GJ, United Kingdom, [log in to unmask]
Tim Butler, Department of Geography, King's College, Strand, London WC2R
2LS, United Kingdom, T [log in to unmask]
Recent studies show that gentrification is a global phenomenon, with
growing empirical accounts from a breadth of continents, including Latin
American, Asian and African cities. Clearly, representations of
gentrification as a 'relatively small scale and very geographically-
concentrated phenomenon' (Hamnett, 1991: 173) which is limited to North
American, European or Australian cities are out-dated; the processes of
change have spread into other contexts. Indeed, Atkinson and Bridge's
(2004) forthcoming edited collection is titled: The New Urban Colonialism:
Gentrification in a Global Context'. But what does this 'globalization of
the process' mean for contemporary theoretical and conceptual
understandings of gentrification, or for the politics of gentrification and
local community activist groups? Does the expansion of gentrification
suggest a need to encapsulate more than, for example, the narrow process of
residential rehabilitation or class-related transitions? Does the
globalization of gentrification point to a positive process of urban
change, or is the process tied to widescale socio-economic and cultural
polarization and marginalisation? Has the term gentrification lost its
conceptual power to capture the diverse expressions of global urban
change? If so, should the concept of gentrification be narrowed to exclude
related or integral processes of regeneration? How can we most effectively
theorise and conceptualise processes of urban revitalization or
regeneration that are unfolding on a global scale?
In this session we therefore want to explore the contemporary meanings and
uses of gentrification by international scholars. We take as our starting
point the diverse trajectories of processes of gentrification in different
national and global contexts, and are seeking papers which will illuminate
the commonalities and contradictions of the processes. To advance
theorisations of global gentrification, we particularly welcome papers
which embrace the 'theoretical battleground' of shifting and contingent
political and economic conditions, the consumption practices of distinct
socio-cultural groups and production activities of institutional actors and
intermediaries, as well as overarching processes of globalisation, such as
transnational migration, the global economy and technological developments,
which underpin new forms of global gentrification.
Participants whose papers are accepted for the session should register for
the conference at www.aag.org and inform the session organisers of their
participant number before the registration deadline of Thursday 21st
October.
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