Wallace, A (2015) Gentrification Interrupted in Salford, UK: From New Deal to “Limbo-Land” in a Contemporary Urban Periphery. Antipode, 47 (2). pp. 517-538. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
This paper examines two potential lacunae in understanding low-income residents’ experiences of contemporary state-led gentrification via a study of neighbourhood restructuring in Salford, UK, 2004–2014. The first is the localised politics preparing the ground for neighbourhood “redevelopment” and housing demolition. The second is the blighted social landscape which emerges with the subsequent stalling of this project. A focus on “before” and “after” is adopted in order to disrupt the linear policy and “effects” temporalities that much qualitative gentrification research tends to inhabit. We see how state-led neighbourhood restructuring does not simply displace, but carries residents from “empowerment” to abandonment and transfers them from active struggle into devitalised limbo. As such, the paper demarcates challenges and opportunities for resident mobilisation inherent in a vacillating urban renewal programme, powerful in its inception but which has since “hit the buffers” (Lees 2014, Antipode 46(4):921–947) in light of global and municipal fiscal crises.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author. Antipode © 2014 Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Wallace A. (2014) Gentrification Interrupted in Salford, UK: From New Deal to “Limbo-Land” in a Contemporary Urban Periphery, Antipode, 47; pages 517–538, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12124. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Keywords: | gentrification; displacement; restructuring; Salford |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2017 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2018 23:10 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12124 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118979 |