Introduction: Locating gentrification in the Global East
Abstract
This special issue, a collection of papers presented and debated at an Urban Studies Foundationfunded
workshop on Global Gentrification in London in 2012, attempts to problematise contemporary
understandings of gentrification, which is all too often confined to the experiences of the
so-called Global North, and sometimes too narrowly understood as classic gentrification. Instead
of simply confirming the rise of gentrification in places outside of the usual suspects of North
America and Western Europe, a more open-minded approach is advocated so as not to overgeneralise
distinctive urban processes under the label of gentrification, thus understanding gentrification
as constitutive of diverse urban processes at work. This requires a careful attention to the
complexity of property rights and tenure relations, and calls for a dialogue between gentrification
and non-gentrification researchers to understand how gentrification communicates with other theories
to capture the full dynamics of urban transformation. Papers in this special issue have made
great strides towards these goals, namely theorising, distorting, mutating and bringing into question
the concept of gentrification itself, as seen from the perspective of the Global East, a label that
we have deliberately given in order to problematise the existing common practices of grouping all
regions other thanWestern European and North American ones into the Global South.
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Urban Studies 2016, Vol. 53(3) 455–470
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