Journal articles: 'Urban dispossession'

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Masuda, Jeffrey R., Aaron Franks, Audrey Kobayashi, and Trevor Wideman. "After dispossession: An urban rights praxis of remaining in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 2 (July 15, 2019): 229–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775819860850.

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Drawing from a multi-year research presence in Vancouver, Canada’s Downtown Eastside, we generate insights into the praxis of the historically dispossessed within contemporary processes of subaltern urbanisms. Interviews with past and present Downtown Eastside residents reveal parallel narratives of dispossession and remaining between Japanese Canadians who were expelled during the Second World War and communities in the present-day neighborhood. A common frame of reference, a form of dispossessive collectivism, takes shape in a tenuous Right to Remain premised on material, cultural, existential, and political struggles that have inflected life in the Downtown Eastside for over a century of colonial urbanization. The Right to Remain can provide a situated and integrative vocabulary for consolidating grassroots praxis across diverse social groupings and settings to address urban spatial claims (symbolically and materially) and to confront forces of gentrification driving dispossession processes in Vancouver and beyond.

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Hof, Dennis. "Home Dispossession and Commercial Real Estate Dispossession in Tourist Conurbations. Analyzing the Reconfiguration of Displacement Dynamics in Los Cristianos/Las Américas (Tenerife)." Urban Science 5, no. 1 (March 9, 2021): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5010030.

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Since the onset of the global financial crisis, urban dwellers face an increasing number of obstacles in establishing themselves on the housing market. Against this backdrop, this paper addresses the variegated dynamics of real estate dispossession in the tourist conurbation Los Cristianos/Las Américas on an intra-urban scale. First, I will present the spatio-temporal patterns of dispossession for the period 2001–2015 using the ATLANTE database (CGPJ). Specifically, I analyze mortgage foreclosures and tenant evictions, both for residential and commercial spaces. Second, I delve deeper into local experiences of dispossession of the resident population and their housing and income conditions by means of questionnaires that I conducted in 2018. The data shows that mortgage foreclosures and dispossessions of residential spaces predominate the initial years after the crisis, albeit with varied spatial incidence. However, the increase in tenant evictions from 2014 onwards points to a reconfiguration of displacement dynamics. Indeed, as stated by the interviewees, staggeringly high rent burdens have become the main driver for displacement from both living and working spaces in recent years. Given the ongoing global pandemic, further and more nuanced research is necessary to grasp how these prevailing housing insecurities are shaped during and beyond the coronavirus crisis.

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Morell, Marc. "Urban tourism via dispossession of oeuvres." Focaal 2018, no. 82 (December 1, 2018): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2018.820103.

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Most of the anthropology of tourism has focused either on authenticity or on the commoditization of culture. Furthermore, tourism has been looked at as a service sector and, at most, as an urban strategy. Few authors have investigated the organization of (in)formal labor in the tourism industry outside the wage form. I address this gap by looking at the living and dead labor that the production of cultural heritage is about. I argue that the tourism industry transforms long-labored spaces and existing collective use values into commodities. After illustrating this argument with sketches from the Ciutat de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), I conclude that the relation between the dead labor and the living labor that produce heritage determines people’s differential access to its commoditized outcome.

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Yang, Daniel You-Ren, and Jung-Che Chang. "Financialising space through transferable development rights: Urban renewal, Taipei style." Urban Studies 55, no. 9 (June 13, 2017): 1943–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017710124.

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This research investigated the uneven geography of gentrification and the derived community-based conflicts in Taipei’s urban renewal after 2006, which has chiefly been boosted by transferable development rights (TDR). In this context, we argue that TDR has developed a monetary function, and we introduce the notion of strategic monopoly rent to reconceptualise TDR. Accordingly, we propose an institutionalised rent gap model from the perspective of investigating the institutional increase and social dispossession of the rent gap, which have been boosted by the financialised TDR and strategically structured by the state and developers under the regulation of property rights exchange. This system appreciates the potential ground rent and depreciates the building value institutionally – a practice not related to the actual occurrence of its physical deterioration. Landowners are either encouraged or coerced to participate in the distribution of the enlarged rent gap. Two forms of the social dispossession of ground rent have occurred, including the dispossession of the landowners as a whole by the developer and the dispossession of one landowner by another. We argue that the gentrification system has produced the mal-effects of surging housing prices, enclosure, dispossession, displacement and social antagonism.

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Yakashiro, Nicole. "“Powell Street is dead”: Nikkei Loss, Commemoration, and Representations of Place in the Settler Colonial City." Urban History Review 48, no. 2 (April 2021): 32–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/uhr.48.2.03.

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This article highlights the stakes of commemorating and representing loss in the settler colonial city. Focusing on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians living in Vancouver’s Powell Street neighbourhood before 1942, it contributes to existing scholarship on the internment and dispossession periods by critically examining Japanese Canadian reflections on the loss of place in the midst of as well as after their forced removal. Drawing primarily on the New Canadian newspaper in the 1940s and 1950s, this article demonstrates how Japanese Canadian writers mourned Powell Street’s “death” by describing the neighbourhood as ghostly and in ruins after their departure. Using discourses of urban settler colonialism from the mid-twentieth century, writers conveyed the injustice of the Nikkei community’s erasure within the newspaper and asserted a Japanese Canadian claim to the neighbourhood despite state efforts to deny such a claim. At the same time, this article argues that the New Canadian’s representations of Powell Street reflected participation in what Ann Stoler calls “ruination”, whereby Japanese Canadian commemorations became imbricated in the settler colonial logics and processes that pathologize the Downtown Eastside and its residents. Taking seriously the political work of commemoration, the article concludes that urban dispossessions and their representations must be viewed as overlapping, intersecting, and at times, compounding processes.

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Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck. "Infrastructures of progress and dispossession." Focaal 2016, no. 74 (March 1, 2016): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2016.740103.

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This article examines what economic growth and state versions of progress have done to small and medium-scale farmers in an urban setting, in Arequipa in southern Peru. The general reorganization of production, resources, and labor in the Peruvian economy has generated a discursive move to reposition small and medium-scale farmers as backward. This article analyzes how farmers struggle to find their place within a neoliberal urban ecology where different conceptions of what constitutes progress in contemporary Peru influence the landscape. Using an analytical lens that takes material and organizational infrastructures and practices into account, and situates these in specific historical processes, the article argues that farmers within the urban landscape of Arequipa struggle to reclaim land and water, and reassert a status that they experience to be losing. Such a historical focus on material and organizational infrastructural arrangements, it is argued, can open up for understanding how local and beyond-local processes tangle in complex ways and are productive of new subjectivities; how relations are reconfigured in neoliberal landscapes of progress and dispossession. Such an approach makes evident how state and nonstate actors invest affects, interests, and desires differently within a given landscape.

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Gillespie, Tom. "Accumulation by urban dispossession: struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41, no. 1 (October 7, 2015): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12105.

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Kan, Karita. "The social politics of dispossession: Informal institutions and land expropriation in China." Urban Studies 57, no. 16 (February 13, 2020): 3331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019897880.

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Extant studies on land dispossession often focus on its economic and extra-economic aspects, with respective emphasis on the operation of market mechanisms and the deployment of state-led coercion in bringing about the separation of households from their land. This article draws attention to the under-examined role of informal institutions in the politics of dispossession. Social organisations such as lineages and clans pervade grassroots societies and are central to land control and configurations of property rights. In China, the reconsolidation of lineages as shareholding corporations that develop real estate and operate land transfers has rendered them prominent actors in the politics of land and urbanisation. Drawing on an empirical case study, this article argues that informal institutions play a crucial role in mediating both the economic and extra-economic processes of dispossession. It further shows how, by providing the networks necessary for collective mobilisation and supplying the normative framework through which rightful shares in land are claimed, social organisations are at the same time instrumental in the organisation of anti-dispossession struggles. By unravelling the social dynamics that underlie land expropriation, this article offers a nuanced perspective to the politics of dispossession that goes beyond narratives of state-led coercion and market compulsion.

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Madden, David J. "The names of urban dispossession: a concluding commentary." Urban Geography 40, no. 6 (June 14, 2019): 888–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1624114.

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Mondal, Lipon. "The Logic of Dispossession." Journal of World-Systems Research 27, no. 2 (August 14, 2021): 522–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2021.1050.

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One particular focus of world-systems analysis is to examine the historical trajectory of capitalist transformation in peripheral regions. This paper investigates the capitalist transformation in a specific peripheral area—the country of Bangladesh. In particular, it examines the role of dispossession in transforming an agricultural society into a neoliberal capitalist society by looking at the transformation of Panthapath Street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since 1947. Building on the existing literature of dispossession, this article proposes an approach that explains the contribution of dispossession in capitalist accumulation. The proposed theory consists of four logics of dispossession: transformative, exploitative, redistributive, and hegemonic. These four logics of dispossession, both individually and dialectically reinforcing one another, work to privatize the commons, proletarianize subsistence laborers, create antagonistic class relations, redistribute wealth upward, and commodify sociopolitical and cultural aspects of urban life. This paper’s central argument is that dispossession not only converted an agricultural society into a capitalist society in Bangladesh, but that dispossession continues to reproduce the country’s existing capitalist system. This research draws on a wide range of empirical and historical evidence collected from Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2017 and 2018.

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Levenson, Zachary. "The road to TRAs is paved with good intentions: Dispossession through delivery in post-apartheid Cape Town." Urban Studies 55, no. 14 (November 8, 2017): 3218–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017735244.

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Dispossession need not be the product of malicious intentions or a deliberate programme of accumulation. As I argue in this article, it may paradoxically be the consequence of social spending, or what I call dispossession through delivery. Using as a case study the proliferation of temporary relocation areas (TRAs) in post-apartheid Cape Town, I show how what appears as adequate housing from the municipal government’s perspective exacerbates social isolation, perpetuates squatting and aggravates unemployment, transport costs and interpersonal violence. I draw on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in TRAs and land occupations, NGO reports and interviews with housing officials to understand dispossession through delivery in these relocation sites. While TRAs began as emergency housing in cases of environmental catastrophes, they have become regularised as a form of state-provisioned housing even in non-emergency situations and, above all, in cases of land occupations. They are but one of a range of technologies of delivery that facilitate dispossession, and I conclude this article with a discussion of how formal housing distribution and informal settlement upgrading have similar effects. When these various technologies of delivery are understood as bound together in a single articulation, ‘dispossession through delivery’ challenges the standard opposition between neoliberalism and social spending that characterises much of the literature and begins to map novel socio-spatial effects of one trajectory of urbanisation in a Southern city.

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Das, Prerona. "Conceptualising gentrification: relevance of gentrification research in the Indian context." International Development Planning Review ahead-of-print (August 1, 2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.22.

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The concept of gentrification, originally proposed by Ruth Glass on the basis of her observations of neighbourhood change in London, has been reconceptualised as well as criticised by scholars over the years. Though the concept has travelled over time and space, it still remains a very anglophone concept, and the extent of its applicability in the global South has been questioned. Especially in a country like India, where urban development takes place in an uneven way, it may not always be sufficient in itself to understand these urban changes and the dispossessions they lead to. This article aims to throw light on the main gentrification theories and debates and engage with the issue of differences over conceptualisation of the term itself. It then evaluates the relevance of the concept of gentrification in India by examining the restricted use of the term by Indian academics and Indian print media, and explores alternate/complementary frameworks to capture diverse instances of urban dispossession.

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Potter, Emily. "Contesting imaginaries in the Australian city: Urban planning, public storytelling and the implications for climate change." Urban Studies 57, no. 7 (March 11, 2019): 1536–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018821304.

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In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant consequence for diverse, inclusive and climate change-responsive urban environments. Urban planning in the modern global city commonly deploys imaginaries in line with neoliberal logics, and this article takes a particular interest in the impact of this on Indigenous Australians, whose original dispossession connects through to current Indigenous urban experiences of exclusion which are set to intensify in the face of increasing climate change. The article explores what urban resilience means in this context, focusing on a case study of urban development in Port Adelaide, South Australia, and broadens the question of dispossession through the forces of global capital to potentially all of humanity in the Anthropocene.

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Bayırbağ, Mustafa Kemal, and Mehmet Penpecioğlu. "Urban crisis: ‘Limits to governance of alienation’." Urban Studies 54, no. 9 (November 25, 2015): 2056–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098015617079.

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This article aims to develop a comparative framework of analysis to study urban crises, arguing that there is a need to establish the analytical links between ‘everyday life and systemic trends and struggles’, and thus to tie together the insights produced by ‘particularistic accounts’. It examines urban crises as political phenomena and brings the Marxist notion of ‘alienation’ to the centre of attention. We argue that ‘alienation’ – as a universal mechanism facilitating capital accumulation process via dispossession, and as negative mental/emotional implications of dispossession, is useful to establish those analytical links. We identify two domains, urban economic structure and urban political system, where alienation is contained. Public authorities deploy various containment strategies in these domains to govern alienation, and urban crises occur when these strategies fail. The post-2008 wave of urban upheavals could be explained by the failure of roll-out neoliberal strategies, which constitute the basis of our comparative framework.

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Mehmood, Sadaf. "Seesaw of Spatial Metamorphosis in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower." NUML journal of critical inquiry 18, no. II (August 3, 2021): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/numljci.v18iii.131.

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Urban space is inherently uneven. Economic pursuits and commercial integrity translate urban space into categorization of haves and have-nots.Neo-Marxists theorize spatial disequilibrium through the dynamics of capital accumulation.Analysis of Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga helps to explorecity space as a commodified place that serves the interests of capital accumulation by converting it as a space of differences, struggles and negotiations. While examining spatial alienation, I probe the making of urban other who experiences, evictions, and displacements followed by the development projects of capital accumulation in the theoretical frame of David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession. The urban space expands and grows not for the urban other but for the elitist consumption. This directs the argument to inspect the creation of a critical spatial consciousness to assert the urban other’s right to the city. By retaliating to their evictions and dispossessions they devise strategies for remaking their space through their lived daily experiences. This has been supported by the theoretical lens of Henri Lefebvre’s “The right to the city”. The selected fiction defines uneven city space whereby the spatial metamorphosis dispossesses and displaces the urban other andraises critical spatial consciousness to obstruct subsequent displacements.

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McElroy, Erin. "Digital nomads in siliconising Cluj: Material and allegorical double dispossession." Urban Studies 57, no. 15 (July 2, 2019): 3078–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019847448.

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This paper studies the arrival of digital nomads in Cluj, Romania. I focus upon double dispossession, in which ‘digital nomads’ allegorise technocapitalist fantasies by appropriating Roma identity on one hand, and in which Roma are evicted to make way for the arrival of Western digital nomads and tech firms on the other. While Roma are materially dispossessed as Cluj siliconises, they are doubly dispossessed by the conjuration of the deracinated digital nomad/Gypsy. As I suggest, this figure discursively drags with it onto-epistemological residues of 19th-century Orientalism – a literary genre that emerged within the heart of Western European empires. The recoding of the nomad today, I argue, indexes the imperiality of technocapitalism, or techno-imperialism. Double dispossession, as a phenomenon, illuminates that prior histories bolster, and are consumed by, globalising techno-imperialism. Postcolonial and postsocialist studies offer frameworks for understanding this update, as well as the accumulative and multifaceted dispossession that siliconisation inheres. I thus argue for a connected rather than comparative approach in understanding double dispossession, one focused upon connections across time, space and genre. A connected approach remains rooted in community organising and housing justice struggles.

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Paprocki, Kasia. "The climate change of your desires: Climate migration and imaginaries of urban and rural climate futures." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 2 (December 3, 2019): 248–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775819892600.

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What are the political imaginaries contained within representations of urban climate futures? What silent but corollary rural dispossessions accompany them? I investigate these questions through the experience of migrants from rural coastal Bangladesh to peri-urban Kolkata. The threats posed to their villages by a variety of ecological disruptions (both loosely and intimately linked with climate change) drive their migration in search of new livelihoods. Their experiences suggest that the demise of rural futures is entangled with the celebration of urban climate futures. However, social movements in this region resisting agrarian dispossession point to alternative political imaginaries that resist teleologies of urbanization at the expense of agrarian livelihoods. Current work in both agrarian studies and urban studies theorizes these linked dynamics of rural–urban transition, seeking to understand them in relation to broader political economies. I bring these debates into conversation with one another to highlight the importance of attention to counter-hegemonic agrarian political imaginaries, particularly in the face of predictions of the death of the peasantry in a climate-changed world. It won’t be possible to identify or pursue just climate futures without them.

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Shih, Mi. "Rethinking displacement in peri-urban transformation in China." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 2 (September 28, 2016): 389–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16670158.

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This article examines the spatiality of peri-urban villages in Guangzhou, offering an analysis that critically rethinks displacement as a phenomenon that need not be bracketed by the narrow spatial understanding of “physical uprootedness.” Building on ethnographic fieldwork research in Yonghe village, this article identifies and examines three mechanisms and forms of marginalization and dispossession that Chinese villagers have experienced during in situ urbanization: (1) large-scale expropriation of farmland to economic development zones in the mid-1980s; (2) subjection of collective assets to industrial land use by the planning authority since 1991; (3) on-going exposure to industrial pollution. The analysis shows that each of these factors is contingent on the previous one, and that villagers’ engagement with recent injustices cannot be separated from their disadvantaged positions in the past. This article argues that, while overt displacement by state-led development is a clear violation of the “right to the city,” in situ marginalization and dispossession without physical uprooting is equally problematic and exploitative.

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Ensari, Pınar. "Migrants and city-making: dispossession, displacement, and urban regeneration." Urban Geography 42, no. 2 (February 7, 2021): 255–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.1900514.

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Moreno, Louis, and Hyun Bang Shin. "Introduction: The urban process under planetary accumulation by dispossession." City 22, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1442067.

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Khan, Danish, and Anirban Karak. "Urban development by dispossession: planetary urbanization and primitive accumulation." Studies in Political Economy 99, no. 3 (September 2, 2018): 307–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536366.

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Tomczuk, Sara Jean. "Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 48, no. 6 (October 30, 2019): 644–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306119880196e.

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Speer, Jessie. "Migrants and city-making: dispossession, displacement, and urban regeneration." Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 5 (January 8, 2019): 756–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1565937.

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Pain, Rachel. "Chronic urban trauma: The slow violence of housing dispossession." Urban Studies 56, no. 2 (November 15, 2018): 385–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018795796.

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This paper sets the idea of slow violence into dialogue with trauma, to understand the practice and legitimisation of the repeated damage done to certain places through state violence. Slow violence (Nixon R (2011) Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) describes the ‘attritional lethality’ of many contemporary effects of globalisation. While originating in environmental humanities, it has clear relevance for urban studies. After assessing accounts of the post-traumatic city, the paper draws insights from feminist psychiatry and postcolonial analysis to develop the concept of chronic urban trauma, as a psychological effect of violence involving an ongoing relational dynamic. Reporting from a three-year participatory action research project on the managed decline and disposal of social housing in a former coalmining village in north-east England, the paper discusses the temporal and place-based effects of slow violence. It argues that chronic urban trauma becomes hard-wired in place, enabling retraumatisation while also remaining open to efforts to heal and rebuild.

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Mays, Kyle T. "Narratives of Dispossession and Anticolonial Art in Urban Spaces." Southern Cultures 28, no. 3 (September 2022): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0032.

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Koussa, Ziad. "The politics of public land dispossession in Egypt: 1975–2011 and beyond." Journal of Modern African Studies 58, no. 2 (June 2020): 235–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x20000166.

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AbstractThis article examines changes in the allocation of urban land in Egypt between 1975–2011 with the rise and incorporation of state authoritarianism and neoliberal economics in what I call ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’. Authoritarian neoliberalism in Egypt transferred ownership of urban lands from public wealth to an affluent class of local and foreign capitalists – often in a non-transparent fashion. The article focuses on the government's legally sanctioned practices of subsidisations, privatisations and evictions as they relate to what I call, inspired by David Harvey's formulation, the accumulation of wealth by dispossession. Dispossession of public urban land, I maintain, generated widespread resentment that played a vital, but inadequately discussed, role in the series of revolts that culminated in the 2011 uprising in Egypt. Social tensions engendered in this authoritarian neoliberal regime, I argue, endure under the administration of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who continues to transfer public urban lands, from lower to higher socioeconomic classes, at an even faster pace than his predecessor.

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Hodkinson, Stuart, and Chris Essen. "Grounding accumulation by dispossession in everyday life." International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 7, no. 1 (April 13, 2015): 72–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-01-2014-0007.

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Purpose – This paper aims to ground Harvey’s (2003) top-down theory of “accumulation by dispossession” in the everyday lives of people and places with specific focus on the role of law. It does this by drawing upon the lived experiences of residents on a public housing estate in England (UK) undergoing regeneration and gentrification through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Design/methodology/approach – Members of the residents association on the Myatts Field North estate, London, were engaged as action research partners, working with the researchers to collect empirical data through surveys of their neighbours, organising community events and being formally interviewed themselves. Their experiential knowledge was supplemented with an extensive review of all associated policy, planning, legal and contractual documentation, some of which was disclosed in response to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Findings – Three specific forms of place-based dispossession were identified: the loss of consumer rights, the forcible acquisition of homes and the erasure of place identity through the estate’s rebranding. Layard’s (2010) concept of the “law of place” was shown to be broadly applicable in capturing how legal frameworks assist in enacting accumulation by dispossession in people’s lives. Equally important is the ideological power of law as a discursive practice that ultimately undermines resistance to apparent injustices. Originality/value – This paper develops Harvey’s concept of accumulation by dispossession in conversation with legal geography scholarship. It shows – via the Myatts Field North estate case study – how PFI, as a mechanism of accumulation by dispossession in the abstract, enacts dispossession in the concrete, assisted by the place-making and ideological power of law.

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Eflin, Jackson. "Incursion Into Wendigo Territory." Digital Literature Review 1 (January 6, 2014): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.1.0.9-19.

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This article explores modern urban legends that appropriate the idea of the Wendigo, a spiritfrom various Native American tribal legends. These urban legends are informed by a culturalguilt of the dispossession of Native American territories, but the victory of monster over protagonist demonstrates the futility of these attempts to comprehend histories of atrocities.

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Sanchez, Andrew. "Questioning success: Dispossession and the criminal entrepreneur in urban India." Critique of Anthropology 32, no. 4 (December 2012): 435–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275x12456652.

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Beaugrand, Claire. "Urban margins in Kuwait and Bahrain: Decay, dispossession and politicization." City 18, no. 6 (November 2, 2014): 735–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2014.962887.

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Purser, Gretchen. "The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore." Critical Sociology 42, no. 3 (May 27, 2014): 393–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920514524606.

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Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew. "Decoding dispossession: Eviction and urban regeneration in Johannesburg's dark buildings." Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 37, no. 3 (September 2016): 378–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12165.

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Fişek, Emine. "Palimpsests of Violence: Urban Dispossession and Political Theatre in Istanbul." Comparative Drama 52, no. 3-4 (2018): 349–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cdr.2018.0015.

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Mbiba, Beacon. "Idioms of Accumulation: Corporate Accumulation by Dispossession in Urban Zimbabwe." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41, no. 2 (March 2017): 213–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12468.

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Benanav, Aaron. "Demography and Dispossession: Explaining the Growth of the Global Informal Workforce, 1950-2000." Social Science History 43, no. 4 (2019): 679–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2019.34.

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AbstractSince 1950, the world’s urban labor force has expanded dramatically, a process that has been accompanied by a large increase in informal employment. Accounts of these phenomena generally assume that urban workers without formal work are mostly recent migrants from the countryside. This article shows that outside of China, most of the growth of the world’s urban workforce has been the consequence of demographic expansion rather than rural-to-urban migration. A large portion of the world’s growing urban-born workforce has ended up in informal employment. I develop a concept of demographic dispossession to explain the relatively autonomous role demographic growth has played, first, in the proletarianization of the global population and, second, in the informalization of the urban workforce. I then explore the reasons why demographic growth in low- and medium-income countries tended to be more rapid and urban than demographic growth had been historically in the high-income countries.

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Yanjing Zhao and Chris Webster. "Land Dispossession and Enrichment in China’s Suburban Villages." Urban Studies 48, no. 3 (February 2011): 529–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098010390238.

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This paper takes a fresh look at the land dispossession that is central to Chinese urbanisation. It documents in detail the property rights changes that occur when village land is taken by a municipal government and analyses the value of those rights by looking at compensation accounts for a case study village in the city of Xiamen in Fujian Province. The purpose of the paper is to show the complexity of the property rights dynamics during land expropriation and the results in terms of villager income. The paper also shows that, in Xiamen, the local state has made a series of concessions such that displaced villagers now receive a compensation package that not only includes compensation for lost agricultural land, production and homes but also a share of the urban land value uplift created by the infrastructure investments of the municipal state.

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Phelps, Nicholas A., and Julie T. Miao. "Varieties of urban entrepreneurialism." Dialogues in Human Geography 10, no. 3 (November 27, 2019): 304–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820619890438.

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We revisit the concept of urban entrepreneurialism to highlight some of its variety. In particular, the present article refocuses discussion on: processes of innovation, bringing geography into dialogue with the literature on innovation in public services; normative questions surrounding the ends to which urban entrepreneurship is turned; and the need for analysis to go beyond the territorial traps of the nation and the city to consider how urban entrepreneurialism articulates with the national state and is projected internationally. We distinguish urban managerialism from the new urban managerialism, urban diplomacy, urban intrapreneurialism and urban speculation, drawing on international examples to highlight the mixed qualities and effects of these varieties of urban entrepreneurialism. In conclusion, we note the limitations of our framework and its relationship to the related ideas of neoliberalization, financialization and accumulation by dispossession.

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Tardanico, Richard, and Ulrich Oslender. "Dividing a City: Real Estate Mega-Speculation and Contention in Miami, Florida." Astrágalo. Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad, no. 29 (2021): 103–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2021.i29.05.

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Miami is not a newcomer to the history of gentrification that has reshaped the urban fabric in cities all over the world. Yet a new mega project to be implemented in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood represents a strategic capitalist modification of the city’s previous processes of class-based and racialized socio-territorial dispossession and displacement. As we argue in this paper, Little Haiti’s Magic City Innovation District stands emblematic for a global boom in financialized urban corporate accumulation, which presents new challenges to local communities. We ask, what practical political options does a predominantly poor minority community have in confronting such challenges? Our discussion of Miami’s Little Haiti suggests two conclusions: first, that real estate mega speculation potentially exacerbates politico-social divisions within such a community, subverts its capacity for resistance, and renders it more vulnerable to large-scale dispossession and displacement; and second, that mega speculation exacerbates socio-territorial divisions and inequalities within the fabric of a wider metropolis.

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Roy, Animesh. "Political Economy of Dispossession and Economic Change: A Case of Rajarhat in West Bengal, India." International Journal of Community and Social Development 4, no. 1 (February 9, 2022): 10–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25166026221076630.

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Land dispossession under the neoliberal capitalist development has become a focal point of debate across Indian states, particularly in West Bengal. Based on household surveys conducted in Rajarhat in West Bengal (India) in 2009 and 2016, this article illuminates how a large-scale dispossession of farmers from land for a neoliberal planned urban centre adjoining Kolkata Metropolis leads to a process of economic change and rural transformation, giving birth to diverse non-farm livelihood activities for the dispossessed households. While access to these new livelihood opportunities in the burgeoning urban economy turns out to be unequal, the dispossessed households broadly undergo upward economic mobility. It also argues that the benefits of speculative land value arising from neoliberalisation of spaces in the post-acquisition stage actuate the partially dispossessed households to sell off their remaining land and produce a basis for social differentiations and asset inequalities within the dispossessed households. To prevent these and similar outcomes, it calls for apt policies.

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Wideman, Trevor James, and Jeffrey R. Masuda. "Assembling “Japantown”? A critical toponymy of urban dispossession in Vancouver, Canada." Urban Geography 39, no. 4 (August 3, 2017): 493–518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1360038.

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Gupta, Achala. "Book Review: Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration." Cultural Sociology 14, no. 4 (May 6, 2020): 458–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975520922168.

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Urban, Susanne. "Book review: Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration." Urban Studies 56, no. 14 (August 28, 2019): 3050–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019868127.

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Leitner, Helga, and Eric Sheppard. "From Kampungs to Condos? Contested accumulations through displacement in Jakarta." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50, no. 2 (May 16, 2017): 437–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17709279.

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Across cities of the global South, major initiatives are underway to assemble land from informal settlements in order to make it available for large-scale infrastructure and commercial real estate projects. Driven by global city aspirations, profit-seeking developers, demands from emergent middle classes for modern residential, consumption and recreational spaces, and, last but not least, the availability of finance, these land transformations seek to commodify and enclose residential urban commons and involve the displacement of thousands of urban residents. Through an examination of two field sites, a ‘legal’ kampung where land is being acquired through negotiations between kampung residents with land rights and developers’ land brokers, and two ‘illegal’ kampungs whose residents were evicted in the name of flood mitigation, we conclude that the default theory for explaining these processes—accumulation by dispossession—is inadequate for capturing the variegated and complex nature of such processes. By thinking through Jakarta, we seek to provincialize the dominant concept of accumulation by dispossession, proposing an extension that we suggest is better attuned to capture the distinct features of Southern cities: Contested accumulations through displacement.

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Zhan, Yang. "Suspension 2.0: Segregated Development, Financial Speculation, and Waiting among Resettled Peasants in Urban China." Pacific Affairs 94, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 347–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5509/2021942347.

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Since the late 2000s, many rural-to-urban migrants in China have lost their rural land to development plans, resettled in designated areas, and acquired formal urban residency. They stopped migrating, and have apparently ended their life of "suspension," namely protracted mobility. While most existing research literature on this population foregrounds the issue of land dispossession, this article argues that, following resettlement, these former migrants' lives can be more accurately characterized as a state of suspension instead of dispossession. Many resettled young adults, while having secured livelihood thanks to state compensation, are excluded from the technology- and capital-intensive developments to which they have lost their land. Some of these young people instead became petty speculators and rentier capitalists by liquidating their compensated assets through mortgages, private lending, rent, and other financial means. They are constantly waiting for the next investment opportunity and windfall gain. Although physically settled down and economically secure, they remain anxious and unsettled. They continue to orient their lives towards an elusive future rather than striving to transform the here and now, thus living in a state that I call "suspension 2.0."

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Cvjetkovic, Marija. "David Harvey’s contribution to urban sociology." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 150 (2015): 157–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1550157c.

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David Harvey is a neo-Marxist theorist influential in many disciplines. This paper analyses his specific use of Marx?s theory as a contribution to urban sociology. Observing cities in the context of a constant need of capitalism to overcome the problem of over-accumulation of capital, urbanization is seen as an important factor of capitalist development. Methods of temporary relocation and resolutions of capitalist contradictions, with the help of so-called accumulation by dispossession, are intensified in neo-liberalism, which is seen as a project for the restoration of class power. Therefore, Harvey demands more equitable cities in which the interest of private capital will not be the main factor of their shaping. Harvey?s Marxism is alluring, but it is also the subject of numerous criticisms.

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Chhabria, Sheetal. "The Aboriginal Alibi: Governing Dispossession in Colonial Bombay." Comparative Studies in Society and History 60, no. 4 (October 2018): 1096–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000397.

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AbstractThis article analyzes representations of the Koli as aboriginal in colonial Bombay, and explores the ends to which various actors have narrated Koli aboriginality. It examines the relationship between the historical deployment of the concept of aboriginality and its mediating role in the power of capital and state-making practices in one colonial urban context. The article shows how the Koli, as Bombay's “aboriginals,” gained concessions that served as an alibi for the market-based dispossession of the remainder of the city's population, and also as a pretext for claim-making by peoples with competing collective identities who used the tale of Koli identity and history as a narrative resource to argue for their own nativity. The Koli case helps us understand the co-emergence of the powers of caste and capital in Bombay, and compels us to revisit important, broader questions about relationships between aboriginal or indigenous peoples, capitalism, colonialism, liberalism, and governance.

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Crosby, Andrew. "(Re)mapping Akikodjiwan: Spatial Logics of Dispossession in the Settler-Colonial City." Urban History Review 49, no. 1 (September 22, 2021): 84–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2020-0007.

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This article examines the socio-spatial reproduction of settler-colonial urbanism at a contested site of urban development in Canada’s capital city. Akikodjiwan is an Algonquin sacred site on the Ottawa River (Kichi Sibi) and the location of a large-scale private real estate development project. Using the Access to Information Act, this article demonstrates how the Canadian government—led by the National Capital Commission—orchestrated a land transfer to the developers amid long-standing calls by the Algonquins to have the land returned. This article contributes to understandings of the positioning of the settler city at the center of the spatial logic of coloniality in Canada, as a site of the deployment of socio-spatial strategies of settler-colonial governance and property relations, but also as a site of Indigenous resistance. Transpiring in a purported climate of reconciliation, the remapping of Akikodjiwan demonstrates the ongoing spatial implications and role of place making in settler-colonial city making, where racialized logics and regimes of private property are mobilized in an attempt to dispossess and exclude Indigenous peoples from their lands, alongside the simultaneous transfer of thousands of settlers onto an Algonquin sacred site.

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Doshi, Sapana, and Malini Ranganathan. "Contesting the Unethical City: Land Dispossession and Corruption Narratives in Urban India." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107, no. 1 (October 11, 2016): 183–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1226124.

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Sengupta, Mitu. "Non-place, dispossession, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games: An urban transformation analyzed." City, Culture and Society 7, no. 4 (December 2016): 259–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2015.11.001.

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Kan, Karita. "Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri‐urban China." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43, no. 4 (February 12, 2019): 633–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12746.

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