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"This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city. It focuses in particular on the impact of gentrification on women and racialized men, exploring how gentrification increases the cost of living the serves to narrow housing choices, make social reproduction more expensive, and limits the scope of the democratic process. This has resulted in the displacement of many of the phenomena once considered to be the emancipatory hallmarks of gentrification, such as gayborhoods. The book explores the role of gentrification in the larger social processes through which gender is continually reconstituted. In so doing, it makes clear that the negative effects of gentrification are far more wide-ranging than popularly understood, and makes recommendations for renewed activism and policy that places gender at its core. This is valuable reading for students, researchers, and activists interested in social and economic geography, city planning, gender studies, urban studies, sociology and cultural studies."--Provided by publisher.

The state is playing an increasingly important role in the recent wave of gentrification. This study reveals that strong state intervention in Shanghai's gentrification can be seen in three aspects. First, the state stimulates and accommodates the consumption demands of gentrifiers. Second, to create optimal conditions for capital circulation, the state makes policy interventions and invests heavily in environment beautification and infrastructure construction. Third, the state mobilizes the most important resources to tackle the problem of fragmented property rights and to facilitate gentrification. The state-sponsored gentrification under market transition is motivated by the pursuit of economic and urban growth at the cost of large-scale residential displacement.

AbstractThis collection of interventions unites academics hailing from Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the United States, reintroducing discussions on authoritarian state tactics and coercion into urban renewal dialogues within urban studies. During our discussions, it became apparent that urban authoritarian tactics are crucial in contemporary state‐led gentrification efforts. In this introduction to the series, we aim to merge research on authoritarian measures within neoliberalism with the literature concerning urban transformation and gentrification. By doing so, we bring urban studies into wider discussions regarding the overarching trend of authoritarianism on a global scale within sociology, political economy and international studies.

In this article I illuminate the production and erasure of Queerspaces in Beirut as part of postwar gentrification. A dual Beirut has emerged within assemblages of sectarian power, sexual citizenship and political economy. Commercial Queerspaces tacitly incorporated into the neoliberal and sectarian state exist while the 'Queer unwanted' – spaces and people deemed transgressive to the moral order – are violently erased by state and non-state actors. These dual spaces expose the limits on life for Queer communities. To analyse these dynamics, I turn to the testimonies of LGBTQ activists in Beirut in relation to the possibilities offered by Queerspace. While activists note the exclusions – class, gender and sexuality – of commercial Queerspace that restrain political agency, they have powerfully asserted radical intersectional politics into recent revolutionary anti-sectarian waves of protest. This politics is marked by articulating Queerness as a project of connecting marginality for all excluded groups in Lebanon's postwar order and by a queering of sectarian/neoliberal space that has hitherto cleansed undesirable LGBTQ bodies. This paper draws on extensive fieldwork in Beirut (2011 to 2020), thus permitting longitudinal research of LGBTQ activism.

The concept of gentrification, originally proposed by Ruth Glass on the basis of her observations of neighbourhood change in London, has been reconceptualised as well as criticised by scholars over the years. Though the concept has travelled over time and space, it still remains a very anglophone concept, and the extent of its applicability in the global South has been questioned. Especially in a country like India, where urban development takes place in an uneven way, it may not always be sufficient in itself to understand these urban changes and the dispossessions they lead to. This article aims to throw light on the main gentrification theories and debates and engage with the issue of differences over conceptualisation of the term itself. It then evaluates the relevance of the concept of gentrification in India by examining the restricted use of the term by Indian academics and Indian print media, and explores alternate/complementary frameworks to capture diverse instances of urban dispossession.

What, if anything, is wrong with gentrification? This paper addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. We argue that gentrification is a wrong insofar as it involves a violation of city-dwellers occupancy rights. We distinguish these rights from other forms of territorial rights, and discuss the different implications of the argument for urban governance. If we agree on the ultimate importance of being able to pursue one's located life-plans, the argument goes, we must also agree on limiting the impact on gentrification on people's lives. Limiting gentrification's impact, however, does not entail halting processes of gentrification once and for all.

'Die Aufwertung innenstadtnaher Wohngebiete (Gentrification) ist seit einigen Jahren ein vielbeachtetes und untersuchtes stadtsoziologisches Phänomen. Eine besondere Rolle zur Beschreibung und Erklärung des Prozesses spielen dabei unterschiedliche Nachfragegruppen nach Wohnungen (speziell die sog. Pioniere und Gentrifier). Doch trotz jahrelanger Forschung findet man in der Literatur nur ständig variierende, empiristische ad hoc-Klassifikationen dieser relevanten Nachfragegruppen. Dadurch sind die Ergebnisse vieler Studien häufig nicht vergleichbar. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine theoretisch hergeleitete allgemeine Typologie von Nachfragern auf dem Wohnungsmarkt zu entwickeln, die auch, aber nicht nur, zur Analyse der Aufwertung innerstadtnaher Wohngebiete genutzt werden kann. Um die Nützlichkeit dieser Typologie zu veranschaulichen, werden Daten des kumulierten ALLBUS 1980-1990 hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der im Aufwertungsprozeß relevanten Nachfragergruppen analysiert.' (Autorenreferat)

"Jörg Blasius gibt einen Überblick über den Stand der Forschung zur Gentrification und der daraus folgenden Verdrängung von Bevölkerungsgruppen - ein Forschungsfeld, das in Deutschland zuerst von Friedrichs und seinen Mitarbeitern bearbeitet wurde. Nach einer Explikation des Konzepts der Gentrification stellt Blasius verschiedene Erklärungsmodelle für diesen Prozess der Aufwertung innenstadtnaher Wohngebiete vor. Dabei unterscheidet er zwischen Erklärungen für die Angebots- und die Nachfrageseite. Außerdem untersucht er, welchen Einfluss der Staat auf diesen Prozess hat, und folgert, dass Forschungsergebnisse aus einem Land nicht ohne Weiteres auf ein anderes übertragen werden können. Er konstatiert zudem einen Mangel an quantitativ vergleichenden Studien zu den Motiven der Zu- und Fortziehenden, ohne deren Kenntnis der Prozess des Nachbarschaftswandels nicht vollständig verstanden werden kann." (Autorenreferat)