Thanks for this Chris,
Though it should be noted that some of the coverage below was highly misleading, including (unsurprisingly) the BBC documentary, but especially Gerry Braiden's article in the Herald (a media partner for the Organising Committee, Glasgow 2014 Ltd).
Libby Porter and myself provide a more critical account of this particular eviction in a paper for Antipode which argues that the eviction was made possible by exceptional measures embedded in the Commonwealth Games Bill, measures which were applied ruthlessly in this case, but which were notable by their absence in other high-profile cases where landowners came to extremely lucrative 'mutual agreements' with the City Council: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12114/full
This paper came out of sustained scholar-activist by us and others with the Glasgow Games Monitor 2014, which aimed to provide solidarity with local residents and critical information about the Games in an accessible form: http://gamesmonitor2014.org
Another paper by Gerry Mooney and myself shows how the long-term 'territorial stigmatisation' of the East End of Glasgow, which produced noxious social effects, helped legitimise evictions and displacement in the area: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13604813.2010.511857
This sympathetic documentary by Chris Leslie gives context to and captures the brutality of the eviction process itself: https://vimeo.com/30422638
See also the London Games Monitor, where a bit of digging will reveal evictions related to the 2012 London Olympics: http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk
Chris Allen's 'Housing Market Renewal and Social Class' is an important resource on regeneration and evictions in the North of England: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Housing-Market-Renewal-Social-Planning/dp/0415415616
Vickie Cooper and Kirsteen Paton chart the recent rise of tenant 'eviction watches' in Liverpool and London for Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/kirsteen-paton-vickie-cooper/tenants-in-danger-rise-of-eviction-watches
See also the links to various groups in the London Radical Housing Network for more info on evictions and resistance to them: http://radicalhousingnetwork.org
Hope these help.
Best wishes, Neil
Dr. Neil Gray,
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences,
Room 521, East Quadrangle,
Main Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/pgresearch/neilgray/#/researchsummary
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Subject: Evictions & 'Regeneration'
This was a high-profile local story in the lead-in to Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26740648
https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2013/11/15/the-real-losers-of-glasgow-2014/
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/documentary-on-the-human-impact-of-glasgow-2014-1-3414564
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13166382.Eviction_row_site_is_set_to_be_used_for_schools/
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