The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city

Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, queer studies geographies, this special issue editorial call for greater scholarly attention to conscious unconscious emotional, psychic, affective dimensions urban gentrification. While geographical scholarship frequently gestures gentrification as an scene, these connections are generally suggested rather than developed. We argue that psychoanalytic affect theories have richly developed conceptual explanatory paradigms can help make sense sometimes granular, mundane ways is both facilitated contested. Our aim here not displace Marxist political economies support a right city, body work with stakes we also claim. Rather, our goal supplement economy’s focused inquiry into gentrification’s ‘proper’ political-economic dimensions, hopes offering further insight libidinal economies, which conditioned by racial capitalist social relations but exceed them.