Gentrification as a global strategy : Neil Smith and beyond / edited by Abel Albet and Núria Benach.

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Part I. Neil Smith : a tribute. 1. Neil Smith and gentrification / Abel Albet and Núria Benach -- 2. A political-geographic project against capitalism : an essay on the work of Neil Smith / Luz Marina García Herrera and Fernando Sabaté Bel -- 3. The apocryphal diary of Neil Smith / Fernando Sabaté Bel -- Part II. On gentrification and the rent gap theory -- 4. The state of gentrification has always been extra-economic / Hamish Kallin -- 5. Gentrification : disaster, necessity, opportunity? Notes for a critical use of the concept / Francesco Indovina and Oriol Nel·lo -- 6. Toward a theory of gentrification : global capital flows and the reshaping of the global semi-periphery. The cases of Greece and Brazil / Antonis Vradis -- 7. Making rent gap theory not true / Eric Clark -- 8. Rent gap theory is a political resource / Ernesto López-Morales -- Part III. Dispossession and class struggle -- 9. From Boise to Budapest : capital circulation, compound capitalist destruction and the persistence of homelessness / Don Mitchell -- 10. Revanchism, ignorance and class struggle in austerity Britain / Tom Slater -- 11. The class gap in gentrification : a political reading of the rent gap hypothesis / Marc Morell -- 12. The new urban frontier of everyday evictions : contemporary state practices of revanchism / Vickie Cooper and Kirsteen Paton -- 13. Capturing urban rent through evictions : home dispossessions in the historic centre of Palma (Majorca) / Sònia Vives-Miró and Onofre Rullan -- Part IV. Policies and strategies -- 14. Financialised rent gaps and the public interest in Berlin's housing crisis : reflections on N. Smith's "generalised gentrification" / Laura Calbet i Elias -- 15. Beyond the "revanchist city" : when public policies softly support gentrification in the name of social mix. The case of Inner Paris / Anne Clerval -- 16. Urban regeneration, rent and labour : insights from Barcelona's knowledge district" / Greig Charnock, Hug March, Thomas Purcell, and Ramón Rivera-Fumaz -- 17. Architecture of violence: "anti-beggar-architecture" as the "eureka" of urban regeneration / Sonia Maria Taddei Ferraz, Luis Gustavo Rosadas Campos, Mayra Duarte Lima, Paula Ramos C. Carvalho de Mendoça, and Leticia Lyra Acioly. Part V. Activism and resistence -- 19. The urban frontier : gentrification as ideology and class politics in the remarking of marginal urban space / Catharina Thörn and Katarina Despotovic -- 20. Alternative geographies for social action in Medellín / Eryka Y. Torrejón Cardona -- 21. Alternative narratives from an invisible city : gentrification, counter-proposals and women activism / María del Socorro Pérez Rincón Fernández -- 22. The onslaught against the Greek squatting movement and the value that it produced / Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou -- 23. Revanchism and the racial state : Ferguson as "internal colony" / Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis -- Part VI. Neil Smith and beyond -- 24. Gentrification and the urban struggle : Neil Smith and beyond / Núria Benach and Abel Albet.