Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting.
*Please see below our CfP for the forthcoming RC21 Conference (11-13
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The deadline for paper abstract submission is *Friday, 10 March 2017. *
With best wishes,
Hila and Matthew
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*Transnational Gentrification: The Nexus between Lifestyle
Migration/Residential Tourism and Gentrification*
Studies of gentrification have sought to visualize the global or
‘planetary’ nature of the process, assessing how a term used in one local
context (Great Britain in the 1960s, see Glass 1964), and how the process
differs in distinct urban and cultural environments. Thus, gentrification
studies have looked at cases in East Asia (Shin), and in Latin America
(Janoschka). However, there has been surprisingly little attention to
cases of transnational gentrification, where foreign lifestyle migrants or
residential tourists are involved in gentrification process (though see
Cocola Gant 2016).
This session proposes attention to the transnational aspect of
gentrification, and offers to build scholarly perspectives on how
transnational tourism and lifestyle flows have affected the particularities
of local spaces and the people who inhabit them. Lifestyle migration
scholarship focuses on the migration, part-time or full-time, of relatively
affluent people, most often from the global North (Benson and O’Reilley
2009). Residential tourism is more focused on people located closer to the
tourist side on the tourism–migration axis (Huete and Mantecón 2011).
· What are the local effects of transnational flows of relatively
wealthy people?
· How are notions of place transformed?
· And also, how do notions of local culture get appropriated by
higher paying foreign consumers, whose attachment to these cultures may be
routed in essentializing or exoticizing traditions?
· What are the connections between contemporary flows of lifestyle
migrants/residential tourists and historical processes of coloniality
(Quijano 2000)?
The transformation of place may include changes in housing markets,
commerce and other aspects of community life, resulting in gentrification
that is outspending and pushing out local populations. The nexus between
lifestyle migration/residential tourism and gentrification brings together
critical scholarship rooted in cultural sociology (looking at processes of
individuation and cultural idealization of self-projects carried out
through mobility) and political economy (more focused on structural,
economic forces). We welcome theoretical and/or empirical contributions
that bring together these bodies of literature in discussing transnational
gentrification.
Dr Hila Zaban, Warwick University [log in to unmask]
Dr Matthew Hayes, St. Thomas University [log in to unmask]
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Hila Zaban, PhD
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Sociology, The University of Warwick
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