Geographical Knowledges and Neoliberal Tensions: Compulsory Land Purchase in the Context of Contemporary Urban Redevelopment

Brett Christophers
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Brett Christophers: Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Box 513, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden

Environment and Planning A, 2010, vol. 42, issue 4, 856-873

Abstract: The author examines the materialization of geographical knowledges in relation to the ongoing neoliberalization of urban space where the latter is based on processes of compulsory land purchase. The specific context for the study is two recently planned commercial redevelopments for the south London borough of Croydon in the United Kingdom, and the arguments mustered in support of these proposals. The author identifies and discusses three principal sets of geographical knowledges, which he examines under the headings symbolic , biopolitical , and scalar . In each case, he shows that the knowledges have strong modernist overtones. The paper seeks both to understand and contextualize these historical connections, and to consider the contemporary political work performed by the knowledges in question.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1068/a42209

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