Gentrification-Displacement-Dispossession: Key Urban Processes in Latin American cities

Gentrification-Displacement-Dispossession: Key Urban Processes in Latin American cities

This article offers a detailed analysis of key urban processes that have been consolidated in different Latin American cities over the XXI century; they fundamentally consist of a reconquest of central and peri-central areas by real estate capital. The metamorphosis of the consolidated city has beco...

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Main Author: Janoschka, Michael
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Published: Revista INVI 2016
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spelling oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-627852016-11-25T17:30:00Z Gentrification-Displacement-Dispossession: Key Urban Processes in Latin American cities Gentrificación, desplazamiento, desposesión: procesos urbanos claves en América Latina Janoschka, Michael This article offers a detailed analysis of key urban processes that have been consolidated in different Latin American cities over the XXI century; they fundamentally consist of a reconquest of central and peri-central areas by real estate capital. The metamorphosis of the consolidated city has become apparent thanks to the regular use of three central terms: gentrification, displacement and dispossession. Through the conceptualization of the notion of displacement as a material, political, symbolic and psychological process, this paper builds a theoretical understanding of the phenomena that lead to the displacement of popular subjectivities from the central and peri-central areas of Latin American cities. Such a premise is used to comparatively analyze the situation of five cities –Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Quito– and categorize the different displacement and dispossession processes. This discussion also analyzes the meaning of territorial reconfiguration in relation to spatial injustice and the discourses on the “Right to the City”, thus providing a political understanding of the 21st century key urban processes. Este artículo aporta una comprensión pormenorizada de los procesos urbanos claves que se han ido perpetuando en las ciudades latinoamericanas durante los primeros tres lustros del siglo XXI y que consisten en la reconquista de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales por parte del capital inmobiliario. Esta metamorfosis de la ciudad consolidada se ha manifestado a partir del uso habitual de tres términos centrales: gentrificación, desplazamiento y desposesión. Basándose en una conceptualización del desplazamiento como proceso material, político, simbólico y psicológico, se irá fomentando una comprensión teórica de los procesos que conllevan al desplazamiento de las subjetividades populares de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales de las ciudades latinoamericanas. A partir de un análisis comparativista desarrollado en cinco ciudades –Ciudad de México, Buenos Aires, Río de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile y Quito– se establece una tipificación de los procesos de desplazamiento y desposesión. Esta discusión permite analizar el significado que tiene la reconfiguración territorial de cara a las injusticias espaciales, así como para los discursos en torno al “Derecho a la Ciudad”, aportando por tanto una comprensión política adicional de los procesos urbanos que se consideran claves en las primeras décadas del siglo XXI. Revista INVI 2016-11-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html text/html https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62785 Revista INVI; Vol. 31 Núm. 88 (2016): Gentrificación y desplazamientos en América Latina; 27-71 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa eng https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62785/66652 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62785/66661 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62785/66662 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/about/submissions#copyrightNotice
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title_short Gentrification-Displacement-Dispossession: Key Urban Processes in Latin American cities
title_full Gentrification-Displacement-Dispossession: Key Urban Processes in Latin American cities
title_fullStr Gentrification-Displacement-Dispossession: Key Urban Processes in Latin American cities
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description This article offers a detailed analysis of key urban processes that have been consolidated in different Latin American cities over the XXI century; they fundamentally consist of a reconquest of central and peri-central areas by real estate capital. The metamorphosis of the consolidated city has become apparent thanks to the regular use of three central terms: gentrification, displacement and dispossession. Through the conceptualization of the notion of displacement as a material, political, symbolic and psychological process, this paper builds a theoretical understanding of the phenomena that lead to the displacement of popular subjectivities from the central and peri-central areas of Latin American cities. Such a premise is used to comparatively analyze the situation of five cities –Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Quito– and categorize the different displacement and dispossession processes. This discussion also analyzes the meaning of territorial reconfiguration in relation to spatial injustice and the discourses on the “Right to the City”, thus providing a political understanding of the 21st century key urban processes.
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