Contesting Displacement Through Radical Emplacement and Occupations in Austerity Europe

Ferreri, Mara

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“…An understanding and visualization of the mechanisms, actors, and trends that facilitate gentrification and dispossession is vital and a point of collaboration with scholar activists. Grassroots urban campaigners thus seek to map the infrastructures of urban displacement-the eviction, the disinvestment, the tenancy agreement, the mortgage, the secure architecture, and, indeed, the immigration enforcement raid-so that their affordances and weak spots might be identified and exploited (Ferreri 2020).…”

Section: Displacement Between and Beyond The Urban And The Transnationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement

Roast¹,

Conlon²,

Garelli³

et al. 2023

Geographies of Displacement/S

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Displacement occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary geographical thought. Displacement through gentrification and regeneration has gained prominence in critical urban geography, even as critical migration, border, and citizenship studies have simultaneously produced a robust literature on transnational displacement and internally displaced persons. In response to emerging crises of global and urban order, this article adds to a consideration of displacement-as concept and methodology-through an urging of attention to three drivers common to urban, subnational, and transnational scales of displacement. Our key argument is to suggest an urgent research agenda addressing the different scales and roles of value, choice, and infrastructure, both as drivers in processes of displacement and as points of learning between subdisciplines. Collectively, our work on migration and urban restructuring shows that large-scale development and resettlement projects, labor markets, and extraordinary measures of crisis management generate new ways in which value is extracted from displaced bodies and depeopled places. Against a tendency to index displacement (in both policy and research methodology) as either voluntary or nonvoluntary, we advance a critique of the choice structure of displacement. We further call attention to the infrastructures and technologies through which displacement is moved from a temporary state of exception to an ongoing state of normality. In doing so, we call for the need to rethink the epistemology of displacement and identify the significance of cross-subdisciplinary conversations for this project.

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Section: Displacement Between and Beyond The Urban And The Transnationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement

Roast¹,

Conlon²,

Garelli³

et al. 2023

Geographies of Displacement/S

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From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration

Voyer

2024

Am J Cult Sociol

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Cultural sociology can be useful for uncovering factors facilitating and hindering immigrant incorporation. The process of incorporation blends different logics and pressures, where the work of incorporation is divided between immigrants who pursue incorporation, and social groups (from nations, to communities, and from classrooms to corporations) that facilitate, hinder, and shape trajectories of inclusion. Cultural sociology has much to contribute to our understanding of the relation between immigrants and the role of others in the process of incorporation. In this essay, I first summarize underlying ideas in the cultural sociology of immigration and immigrant incorporation. I argue that incorporation entails two types of agency on the part of immigrants: mastery and change-making. I then bring three books, Elizabeth Becker’s (Mosques in the metropolis: incivility, caste, and contention in Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2021), Nancy Foner’s (One quarter of the nation: immigration and the transformation of America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2022), and Heba Gowayed’s (Refuge: how the state shapes human potential. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2022), into conversation with cultural theory, reflecting on how the theory challenges the books, and also how the books challenge the theory. I conclude with a proposal for a new approach to thinking about processes of incorporation as consisting of emplacement and acceptance. Adopting this approach contributes to cultural theory by eliminating the need for an outgroup in the construction of the social solidarity.

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Operationalizing the problem of political alienation for housing studies

Gehriger

2023

Housing Studies

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Contesting Displacement Through Radical Emplacement and Occupations in Austerity Europe

Abstract: Contesting displacement through radical emplacement and occupations in austerity Europe

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement

The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement

From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration

Operationalizing the problem of political alienation for housing studies

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