**apologies for cross-posting**
*Final call for papers for RGS-IBG** Annual International Conference,
Cardiff, 28-31 August 2018*
*Session Title: **Contested Gentriscapes:* *Intersectional and decolonial
geographies of gentrification.*
(link
<https://www.academia.edu/35608235/Call_for_Papers._Contested_Gentriscapes_Intersectional_and_decolonial_geographies_of_gentrification>
, link
<http://conference.rgs.org/CallForPapers/View.aspx?heading=Y&session=8599ac27-8306-409d-a40d-aed1af09b003>
)
Session sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG)
Session organizers: Charalampos Tsavdaroglou (University of Thessaly) and
Philipp Katsinas (King’s College London)
The last years have witnessed a vast increase in research on gentrification
as a planetary urban development strategy. A wave of interest emerged in
monitoring and documenting gentrified landscapes across cities outside the
Core, and it now appears to be a cliché to argue that gentrification is not
simply an export of urban formations and developmental patterns from the
Global North to the Global South, but reflects differential logics,
histories, protagonists and levels of real estate, displacement and
resistance practices. Nevertheless, there are few empirical studies to
research the more complex, intersectional and hybrid geographies of
gentrification, especially outside Western Europe and North America, and
how the links between race, colonialism, gender, sexuality, religion, and
class play out in different cities. The session thus explores the interplay
of authoritarian, informal, patriarchal, green, and religious gentrification
with strategies of city branding, touristification, pink-washing,
(sub)cultural
appropriation, resilience and creative economy policies. It further focuses
on the role of social movements in contesting and struggling against
displacement and gentrification policies and (re)claiming the right to the
city, in a Lefebvrian ‘cry and demand’ for visibility, citizenship, social
and political rights and the transformation of the urban space into an
emancipatory space of commoning. Occupy and transenviromental movements,
and social groups including people of colour, lgbtqi, indigenous people,
precarious workers, and migrants, struggle and destabilize not only neoliberal
urban policies but also (post)colonial, racial and patriarchal roles, and
socio-spatial power relations. Thus, decolonial, feminist, queer,
indigenous, subaltern and global South scholarship on urbanisation could
open new perspectives on the analysis of gentrification.
In this direction, the panel welcomes proposals including among others:
a) Dialectic, decolonial and intersectional perspectives on gentrification
and the right to the city in the Global North and Global South;
b) Comparative studies on urban social movements against gentrification;
c) Militant ethnographic research that questions the role of the researcher
in movements for the right to the city.
Please submit your abstract of 250 words by 10th February 2018 to Charalampos
Tsavdaroglou ([log in to unmask]) and Philipp Katsinas (
[log in to unmask]).
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