Speaking gentrification in the languages of the Global East

Waley, Paul

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“…Para mayor detalle en relación a los debates contemporáneos acerca de la perspectiva comparativista en los estudios urbanos, véase McFarlane, 2010;Peck, 2015;Robinson, 2016;Waley, 2016. of five cities -Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Quito-in …”

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Gentrificación, desplazamiento, desposesión: procesos urbanos claves en América Latina

Janoschka

2016

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resumenEste artículo aporta una comprensión pormenorizada de los procesos urbanos claves que se han ido perpetuando en las ciudades latinoamericanas durante los primeros tres lustros del siglo XXI y que consisten en la reconquista de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales por parte del capital inmobiliario. Esta metamorfosis de la ciudad consolidada se ha manifestado a partir del uso habitual de tres tér-minos centrales: gentrificación, desplazamiento y desposesión. Basándose en una conceptualización del desplazamiento como proceso material, político, simbólico y psicológico, se irá fomentando una comprensión teórica de los procesos que conllevan al desplazamiento de las subjetividades , la fase contemporánea adquiere rasgos materiales y simbólicos diferentes. Como todo proceso urbano estructural, se enmarca en una modificación de los mecanismos de acumulación. Esta va, mano en mano, con la implementación de políticas urbanas de atracción de inversiones que generan nuevas posibilidades de beneficio mediante el aumento del valor del suelo, habitualmente apropiado por agentes inmobiliarios privados 2 . GentrificationEsta metamorfosis de la ciudad consolidada, que se manifiesta a partir de la actividad inmobiliaria, la llegada de nuevos colectivos y su iconografía en el espacio público, tiene ganadores y perdedores. A veces de forma nítida y otras de manera más trascendente, implica el desplazamiento, la expulsión 1

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2016

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“…While committed to the principle of regional embeddedness in the research process, we are not persuaded by the arguments of critics who dismiss the relevance of gentrification in Hong Kong. Neither, it seems, are other urban scholars, for since 2015 Hong Kong research has increasingly acknowledged the insights permitted by a gentrification problematic in examining urban redevelopment and the housing sector (Ye et al ., ; Forrest, ; La Grange and Pretorius, ; Waley, ; Ip, ; Ng, ; Qian and Yin, ).…”

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“…And a recent paper by two other Hong Kong scholars does discuss gentrification while highlighting the significance of multiple local contexts (La Grange and Pretorius, ). Such work forms part of a growing body of scholarship characterized by ‘speaking gentrification in the languages of the global East' (Waley, ; Lee, ). More authors now regard gentrification as a ‘critical conceptualization of urban processes in the global East' (Shin et al ., : 460).…”

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Is Comparative Gentrification Possible? Sceptical Voices from Hong Kong

Ley¹,

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2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This essay responds to a series of critical observations made in an intervention in this journal (vol. 41.3) concerning our earlier article on gentrification in Hong Kong (vol. 38.4). In the current rejoinder we bring this particular exchange to focus on the broader question of whether comparative gentrification research is even possible; a question that exemplifies the dualism in the literature between global urban theory and the emphasis inherent within comparative or regional urbanism. Our attempt to present an interpretation of urban transformation in Hong Kong that bridges this dualism was challenged by our critics on grounds that are similar to those identified by Jamie Peck in his 2015 analysis of a comparative urbanism that seeks to undercut global urban theory. We use this intervention to examine several of these arguments critically, and conclude by continuing to promote a comparative approach to the study of gentrification, dominated neither by planetary theory nor by regional specificity.

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“…Urban sprawl produced suburbs with new residential areas, industrial zones and recreational parks. Many inner-city residents were either forcibly displaced by urban regeneration (Wu et al, 2014) or volunteered to move to suburbs to obtain more spacious housing and a more livable environment (a "rice-paddy" gentrification process -Waley, 2016). In a counter-process, many urban rich moved back to inner cities in a kind of revanchist urbanization, displacing inner-city blue collar workers from the bankrupt COEs and SOEs in the first wave of "slash-and-build" regeneration (particularly in large-sized coastal cities around the new millennium - Leaf, 1995).…”

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“…Based on the 2000 census data set and present-day field survey, the urban geography of Kunming has been driven by at least four types of displacement during diversification from the dominant danwei-based urban landscape to a neoliberalist divided space in 2000 (Waley, 2016):…”

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Social differentiation and spatial mixture in a transitional city - Kunming in southwest China

Cheng

Young

2017

Habitat International

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Socio-spatial segregation, and particularly racial and ethnic segregation, has been extensively studied in the Western context but is less researched for Chinese cities, particularly those in less developed regions. The city of Kunming in remote southwest China is characterized by a transition from a socialist manufacturing center to a free market service economy and the strong presence of a diversity of ethnic groups. Kunming provides an opportunity to examine the similarities and disparities in the socio-spatial landscape compared to well-developed cities in China and other post-socialist contexts as well as those in the West. In this paper, population census data at the community level from 2000 together with its spatial boundary data are used to create 39 demographic, educational, occupational and housing variables for 431 communities. Principal component analysis, hierarchical clustering and spatial segregation indicators are combined in order to identify, classify and analyse the spatial segregation of diverse social groups. The study finds that, unusually for Chinese cities, ethnic minority and gender are significant factors, and it demonstrates that both spatial mixture and social differentiation simultaneously characterize Kunming.

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Speaking gentrification in the languages of the Global East

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Cited by 54 publications

References 63 publications

Gentrificación, desplazamiento, desposesión: procesos urbanos claves en América Latina

Gentrificación, desplazamiento, desposesión: procesos urbanos claves en América Latina

Is Comparative Gentrification Possible? Sceptical Voices from Hong Kong

Social differentiation and spatial mixture in a transitional city - Kunming in southwest China

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