Call for Papers IBG 2016
Nexus Thinking in Gentrification Studies (IBG study group sponsorship tbc)
Session Convenors: Professor Loretta Lees and Professor Martin Phillips, Department of Geography, University of Leicester
Abstract
Most scholars in gentrification studies, if not all, have long been open to and inclusive of different geographies of gentrification. Debates over time around different geographies of gentrification have triggered useful reflections on the process, theories of it, its key concepts, and the term itself (Rose, 1984; Phillips, 1994; Davidson and Lees, 2005; Janoschka et al, 2014, etc). Those scholars who have been open and inclusive have sought to reconceptualize and re-theorize gentrification in light of different geographies, those who have not have often retrenched into older, classic ideas about gentrification or rejected the gentrification label itself. This session seeks to foster new debate on both old and new geographies of gentrification - in the loosest sense – from rural gentrification to new-build gentrification, from Latin American gentrification to Anglo-American gentrification, from pioneer gentrification to creative gentrification, the role of human and non-human actants, and so on. In particular we focus on the connections and disconnections, the inclusions and exclusions, around different geographies of gentrification. In so doing we reevaluate where we are at in C21st gentrification studies and indeed where we need to be.
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