Resisting gentrification in traditional public markets

The Role of Traders and Small Businesses in Urban Social Movements: The Case of London's Workspace Struggles

“…These connections open up the possibility for threatened firms to establish solidarity and common ground with the communities they serve, which are often similarly marginalized, excluded and threatened by urban development plans and proposals. These possibilities are supported by a small body of research on opposition to industrial and retail displacement in London (Raco and Tunney, 2010; Roman‐Velazquez, 2014; Hall, 2015; González and Dawson, 2018) and contested marketplaces in the UK, Spain and Latin America (González, 2018).…”

“…While these elite and powerful sectors and interests continue to play a significant role in shaping London's metropolitan plans and strategies, this article reveals how a range of other economic actors are attempting to shape urban development processes in other ways. Building on and contributing to the small but growing body of work exploring specific instances in which industrial firms (Raco and Tunney, 2010), market traders (González and Dawson, 2015; 2018) and migrant and ethnic minority retailers (Roman‐Velazquez, 2014; Hall, 2015) in London have contested specific development schemes that threatened to displace them, this article explores the mobilization of traders and small businesses threatened with displacement at the metropolitan scale for the first time.…”

Global retail capital and urban futures: Feminist postcolonial perspectives

“…Responding to this gap, a small body of work explicitly examines “retail” or “commercial” gentrification (González & Dawson, 2017; Hubbard, 2018; Mermet, 2017). González and Waley define this as the: “cycle of disinvestment (by local authorities) and displacement (of longstanding market stall holders and customers) followed by rediscovery of the commercial and real estate value of markets and plans to rejuvenate and regenerate through the insertion into the market of stalls selling upmarket products, the relocation of markets to shopping centres or their complete ‘boutiquing.’” (2013, p. 97).…”

“…As González (2019) notes, work linking urban displacement and retail gentrification in these ways center global north settings like London (González & Dawson, 2017), Barcelona (Hernández & Andreeva, 2016), Lisbon (Guimarães, 2018), and Paris (Mermet, 2017). Much less attention has been paid to global south cities (Jeong et al, 2015; Schlack & Turnbull, 2015), the differentiated impacts in terms of race and gender (Zukin et al, 2009), the interconnected processes of racial and sexist capitalism (Derickson, 2016; Oswin, 2012), and to their colonial grounds.…”

Exploring the Impacts of Gentrified Traditional Retail Markets in Lisbon in Local Neighbourhoods

“…Although not all declined traditional retail markets may be subject of gentrification, the existence of a rent gap does seem to matter. In the recent study from Gonzalez and Dawson (2018), the three retail precincts used as case studies have been previously subject of divestment and this situation has been used to partially justify its rehabilitation. Similar conclusions were withdrawn by Guimarães (2018), in this author's analysis of traditional retail markets in Lisbon.…”