Housing Displacement

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice - a central issue in urban injustices.

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Guy Baeten is Professor of Urban Studies at Malmo University, Sweden, and is the Director of the newly established Institute for Urban Research. He is the principal investigator of the FORMAS Strong Research Environment CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub). His research interests are in urban development and
urban sustainability.

Carina Listerborn is a Professor in urban planning at Malmo University, Sweden. She is part of the strong research environment CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub), and Vice-Chair of the Institute for Urban Research. Research interests are feminist urban theory, public spaces, neo-Liberal planning, and housing inequalities.

Maria Persdotter is a post-doctoral researcher in welfare law at Linkoping University, Sweden. Her research interests span the fields of legal geography, critical race-, and migration studies. She holds a double PhD degree in Urban Studies from Malmo University and Roskilde University.

Emil Pull is a PhD candidate in urban planning at Malmo University, Sweden. He is part of the strong research environment CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub). Research interests are critical urban geography, critical phenomenology, and housing inequalities.

Inhalt

Introduction. Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues 1. Council Estate Renewal in London: The Challenges of Evidencing Its Gentrification-Induced Displacement 2. Overcoming the Limits of Theory: Conceptual Musings on Displacement 3. A Landscape of Post-Gentrification? A Renovation Case in Sweden 4. Emotional Displacement: Misrecognition, Symbolic Violence, and Loss of Place 5. The Biopolitics of Displacement: Komfortfokozat, Racism and Post-Socialist Gentrification in Budapest's Eighth District 6. Speculating Upon San Francisco's Futurity: From Shell Company Evictions to Decolonial Action 7. Keeping Out the Poor: Banishment as an Urban Renewal Strategy 8. Common Resistance Against State-Led Stigmatisation and Displacement 9. Housing Displacement in Australian Cities: A Brisbane Case Study 10. Green Gentrification and Displacement in Barcelona 11. A Dialogue on Displacement as Entwined Colonialism Conclusion. Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues