Gentrifications in the Planetary Elsewhere: tele-urbanization, Schengtrification, colour-splashing, and the mirage of "more-than-adequate" critical theory

《Gentrifications in the Planetary Elsewhere: tele-urbanization, Schengtrification, colour-splashing, and the mirage of "more-than-adequate" critical theory》

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关键字: Gentrification; tele-urbanization; Schengtrification; colour-splashing; CITIES; URBAN; GEOGRAPHIES; SOUTH; CITY

作者单位: [Gentile, Michael] Univ Oslo, Dept Sociol & Human Geog, Postboks 1096 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. Gentile, M (reprint author), Univ Oslo, Dept Sociol & Human Geog, Postboks 1096 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. E-Mail: michael.gentile@sosgeo.uio.no

摘要: Despite the recent planetary turn that has swept through gentrification research, the theoretical barycentre remains pegged to a few strongholds located in the global north-west. Against this background, this essay offers a provincialized account of three gentrification-like trends - tele-urbanization, Schengtrification and colour-splashing - which are currently taking place in Tbilisi, Riga and Kiev. It is proposed that these processes are supported by an underlying logic that is not pinned to these cities' specific ("post-communist") contexts, raising questions about the avowedly universal validity of theories of gentrification stemming from the global northwest, and particularly those developed within the more critical scholarly tradition.