*apologies for cross posting*
*Royal Geographical Society*
*Annual International Conference*
*28-31 August, 2018 | Cardiff, UK*
Open panel/Call for papers
*Deadline **10 February 2018*
*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 organizers:
Mr. Charalampos Tsavdaroglou
Post-Doc. Urban Planner, University of Thessaly, Greece
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Mr. Phillipp Katsinas
Dr. Geography, King’s College, London, UK
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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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