Gentrification

Sharda Rozena

Chapter 34 in Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society, 2024, pp 532-547 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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