The Injustice of Gentrification
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چکیده
Discussion of gentrification is ubiquitous in cities around the world. And while criticism it common, there still considerable contestation over whether unjust. Political theorists have recently turned their attention to normative evaluation gentrification, especially displacement long-term residents from neighbourhoods experiencing redevelopment and reinvestment. Two important limitations this recent work are, first, a narrow focus on link between displacement, second, injustice has been evaluated light abstract ideals justice divorced lived experience its harms. Although emerging literature usefully identifies some harms fails recognise full extent gentrification. To address these limitations, I argue should start with conceptualisation problem grounded negative effects. Further, employing more comprehensive gentrification’s effects reveals be distinctive encompassing urban better understood by examining how defined harmful inequalities political power, leading exploitation, dispossession, marginalisation, violence.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Political Theory
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1552-7476', '0090-5917']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231178295