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TY - CHAP
T1 - Geographies of forced eviction
T2 - Dispossession, violence, resistance
AU - Brickell, Katherine
AU - Arrigoitia, Melissa Fernández
AU - Vasudevan, Alex
PY - 2017/1/9
Y1 - 2017/1/9
N2 - Today, forced evictions in the name of ‘progress’ are attracting attention as growing numbers of people in the Global South are ejected and dispossessed from their homes, often through intimidation, coercion and the use of violence. At the same time, we have also witnessed the intensification of a ‘crisis’ urbanism in the Global North characterized by new forms of social inequality, heightened housing insecurity and violent displacement. This introductory chapter examines how these developments have led to an explosion of forced evictions supported by new economic, political and legal mechanisms, and increasingly shaped by intensifying environmental change. It does so with reference to the 8 chapters on forced eviction that follow from across urban Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
AB - Today, forced evictions in the name of ‘progress’ are attracting attention as growing numbers of people in the Global South are ejected and dispossessed from their homes, often through intimidation, coercion and the use of violence. At the same time, we have also witnessed the intensification of a ‘crisis’ urbanism in the Global North characterized by new forms of social inequality, heightened housing insecurity and violent displacement. This introductory chapter examines how these developments have led to an explosion of forced evictions supported by new economic, political and legal mechanisms, and increasingly shaped by intensifying environmental change. It does so with reference to the 8 chapters on forced eviction that follow from across urban Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
KW - Gentrification
KW - Cities
KW - Redevelopment
KW - Housing crisis
KW - Activism
KW - Precarity
KW - Neloiberalism
KW - Accra
KW - London
KW - Berlin
KW - Rio de Janeiro
KW - Colombo
KW - Shanghai
KW - Barcelona
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-51127-0_1
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-51127-0_1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781137511263
SP - 1
EP - 23
BT - Geographies of Forced Eviction
A2 - Brickell, Katherine
A2 - Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa
A2 - Vasudevan, Alexander
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -