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Gentrification

In: Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society

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  • Sharda Rozena

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In this chapter I provide an overview and critical analysis of gentrification scholarship, covering its origins, consumption and production theories, debates, and various evolutions. Originally coined in 1964 to describe the movement of the middle-class ‘gentry’ into working-class areas of the inner city, the term ‘gentrification’ has been adapted to different economic and social scales, and includes research on the rural, the super-wealthy, new-build developments, students, state-led intervention, and tourism. I emphasize that the consequences however are always the same. Gentrification creates indirect and direct displacement of people, and physically and symbolically destroys homes. Critical scholarship of gentrification must focus on the lived experiences of home unmaking, resistance and survivability among those most vulnerable to these processes. Such evidence highlights that gentrification is an overwhelmingly negative process.

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  • Sharda Rozena, 2024. "Gentrification," Chapters, in: Keith Jacobs & Kathleen Flanagan & Jacqueline De Vries & Emma MacDonald (ed.), Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society, chapter 34, pages 532-547, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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