Waley, PT (2016) Speaking gentrification in the languages of the Global East. Urban Studies, 53 (3). pp. 615-625. ISSN 0042-0980
Abstract
This commentary sets out to make a claim for gentrification to be understood from the Global East. I argue that a regional approach to gentrification can nurture a contextually informed but theoretically connected comparative urbanism, contributing to the comparative urbanist project by providing an appropriate point of contact between local context and universalising theories. In the process, I attempt to partially destabilise the concept of gentrification and then re-centre it in the Global East. Any comparative exercise is not a straightforward process; on the contrary, it is fraught with epistemological, theoretical and methodological stumbling blocks – regions are slippery and often diverse; diversity can be hard to bottle and label along theoretical lines; methods work more smoothly in discrete settings. But it is an exercise worth undertaking; the regional is the middle stratum that allows the locally specific to speak to planetary trends, and planetary trends to find local purchase. In the pages that follow I map out a number of recognisable types of gentrification in East Asia. I then use these to transcend the region and cut across the Global North / Global South binary that bedevils so much theory-making. The aim, addressed specifically in the final section, is to use these claims for gentrification in the Global East to speak back to and, hopefully, enrich urban theory-making and contribute to discussion of what is becoming known as planetary gentrification (Lees et al., forthcoming).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, Urban Studies Journal Limited. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Urban Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Gentrification; Global east; Urbanism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2015 16:31 |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2016 02:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098015615726 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0042098015615726 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:91275 |