Table Of ContentHousing Displacement
This book examines reasons, processes, and consequences of housing dis-
placement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a
prime act of housing injustice – a central issue in urban injustices.
With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Can-
ada, India, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Hungary, this book explores how
housing displacement processes are more diverse and mutate into more new
forms than have been acknowledged in the literature. It emphasizes a need to
look beyond the existing rich gentrification literature to give primacy to re-
searching processes of displacement to understand the socio-spatial change
in the city. Although it is empirically and methodologically demanding for
several reasons, studying displacement highlights gentrification’s unjust na-
ture as well as the unjust housing policies in cities and neighborhoods that
are simply not undergoing gentrification. The book also demonstrates how
expulsion, though under-researched, has become a vital component of con-
temporary advanced capitalism, and how a focus on gentrification has hin-
dered a potential focus on its flipside of ‘displacement’, as well as the study
of the occurrence of poor cleansing from a long-term historical perspective.
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on housing displacement
to academics and researchers in the fields of urban studies, housing, citizen-
ship, and migration studies, interested in housing policies and governance
practices at the urban scale.
Guy Baeten is Professor of Urban Studies at Malmö University, Sweden, and
is the Director of the newly established Institute for Urban Research. He is
the principal investigator of the FORMAS Strong Research Environment
CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub). His research interests are in
urban development and urban sustainability.
Carina Listerborn is a Professor in urban planning at Malmö University,
Sweden. She is part of the strong research environment CRUSH ( Critical
Urban Sustainability Hub), and Vice-Chair of the Institute for Urban
Research. Research interests are feminist urban theory, public spaces,
neo- liberal planning, and housing inequalities.
Maria Persdotter is a post-doctoral researcher in welfare law at Linköping
University, Sweden. Her research interests span the fields of legal geogra-
phy, critical race-, and migration studies. She holds a double PhD degree in
Urban Studies from Malmö University and Roskilde University.
Emil Pull is a PhD candidate in urban planning at Malmö University, Swe-
den. He is part of the strong research environment CRUSH (Critical Urban
Sustainability Hub). Research interests are critical urban geography, critical
phenomenology, and housing inequalities.
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Contents
List of figures ix
List of tables xi
List of contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction: housing displacement: conceptual and
methodological issues 1
EMIL PULL, GUY BAETEN, CARINA LISTERBORN,
AND MARIA PERSDOTTER
1 Council estate renewal in London: the challenges of evidencing
its gentrification-induced displacement 18
PHIL HUBBARD AND LORETTA LEES
2 Overcoming the limits of theory: conceptual musings
on displacement 33
IPSITA CHATTERJEE
3 A landscape of post-gentrification?: a renovation case in Sweden 53
EMIL PULL
4 Emotional displacement: misrecognition, symbolic violence,
and loss of place 67
CHIARA VALLI
5 The biopolitics of displacement: Komfortfokozat, racism, and
post-socialist gentrification in Budapest’s Eighth District 82
JONATHAN McCOMBS
6 Speculating upon San Francisco’s futurity: from Shell
Company evictions to decolonial action 97
ERIN McELROY
viii Contents
7 Keeping out the poor: banishment as an urban renewal strategy 113
GUY BAETEN AND CARINA LISTERBORN
8 Common resistance against state-led stigmatization and
displacement 125
LOUISE FABIAN AND ANDERS LUND HANSEN
9 Housing displacement in Australian cities: a Brisbane case study 144
ANNE-SOPHIE IOTTI
10 Green gentrification and displacement in Barcelona 156
MELISSA GARCÍA-LAMARCA, JAMES CONNOLLY,
AND ISABELLE ANGUELOVSKI
11 A dialogue on displacement as entwined colonialism 171
MATT HERN AND LISA K. BATES
Conclusion: housing displacement: conceptual and
methodological issues 186
MARIA PERSDOTTER, GUY BAETEN,
CARINA LISTERBORN, AND EMIL PULL
Index 199
Figures
1.1 Change in recorded % of council-rented housing, 2001–2011 25
1.2 Outflows of residents, 2010–2011 26
3.1 Map of Uppsala 54
3.2 Gentrification indicators Kvarngärdet 59
3.3 Gentrification indicators Gränby 60
3.4 Tenure split in Uppsala and studied tracts 61
5.1 Housing tenure distribution, 2014, or latest year available 84
8.1 Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration,
Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. Text on sign: Housing is
a human right 126
8.2 Gini coefficient in Denmark, 1983–2018 128
8.3 “The golden gate”. Reconstruction in Gellerupparken, 2019 133
8.4 Constructions in Gellerupparken, 2019, and the new road sign 134
8.5 Demolition Tours in Gellerup, 2018, with tour guide Aysha
Amin from Andromeda 135
8.6 Zine made by Andromeda 136
10.1 In green, parks built during the period 1992–2004 within
the Ciutat Vella, Sant Martí, Sant Andreu, Nou Barris,
and Horta-Guinardó districts 162
10.2 Areas where strong, moderate, and no green gentrification
seem to be occurring 165
