FEATURED IN IJURR
CROSSING THE LINE: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel’s ‘Mixed Cities’
In this article we point to the intersection between political settlement movements, religion and economic gentrification by identifying a new type of gentrifier who has settled in Israel's mixed cities: the nationalist gentrifier. Against the background of Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005, experienced as a...
STATES OF COMPULSION: Reassessing ‘State-Led’ Neighborhood Change in Hong Kong
This article provides a critical reassessment of the role of the state in processes of neighborhood change in Hong Kong, based on mixed-methods research conducted in the rapidly changing Sai Ying Pun neighborhood. We argue that common narratives of ‘state-led’ processes of neighborhood change often overstate,...
MEGA-REAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami’s Little Haiti
This article contributes to research on racialized dispossession through the lens of popular responses to local/global conjunctures of urban financial speculation. How has a predominantly Black immigrant community, Little Haiti, confronted a surging variant of Miami's history of racialized dispossession—corporate...
NOVEMBER ISSUE
Detail from a map contrasting the pre- and post-covid growth of bar and restaurant terrace licences in Barcelona’s Eixample district between 2019 and 2022 (analysis by Lluís Frago Clols and Alejandro Morcuende González, based on information from Barcelona City Council, 2022)
Lyft signpost at Ontario’s Oakville GO rail station marking one of several designated pick-up/drop-off areas at the station (photo by Fabian Namberger, October 2019)
El Pauche illegally under construction on environmentally protected land in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá (photo provided by CAR Cundinamarca, 22 August 2020)
