Provincializing Trump: Organized Displacement in Global Politics

Diren Valayden

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022, vol. 112, issue 3, 636-643

Abstract: In this article, I theorize urban displacement as an anti-democratic politics that emerged and intensified at planetary scale in the last fifty years. I call this assault on the conditions of possibility of democratization organized displacement. As democracy has increasingly taken an urban character across the globe, I argue that organized displacement has emerged as a counter-politics. Organized displacement has two constitutive features: social cleansing and urbicide. The goal of this politics is to undermine the heterogeneity of social life in the name of creating an urban order. Finally, I argue that a theory of organized displacement reveals that the relationship between Trump and other right-wing figures is not simply based on a similarity of political forms. Rather, right-wing politics has been constituted through global practices of urban displacement. Trump, then, is not the originator of a new politics. Rather, he can be characterized alongside Bolsonaro and Mugabe as an exemplar of an anti-democratic politics of displacement.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1977606

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