“Planetary Gentrification” authors-meet-Critics session at RGS-IBG annual conference 2016
I am very much looking forward to this ‘authors-meet-critics’ session at this year’s RGS-IBG annual conference, featuring my co-authored book Planetary Gentrification. The session is to be convened and chaired by Professor Ronan Paddision (University of Glasglow), and sees the contributions from three critics, Professor David Ley (The University of British Columbia), Dr Andy Merrifield […]
Origin of ‘Gentrification’ – confusing reference to 1888 publication
젠트리피케이션이라는 용어가 처음 사용된 것이 1888년 ‘영국 맨체스터 인문학 및 철학협회 백서’란 문헌이라는 설명을 듣고 뒤적여 봤습니다. 결론은 해당 문헌을 다운받아 단어검색을 한 결과 (단어검색을 허용합니다 – 스캔을 잘 했더군요…), 찾을 수 없다는 것이었습니다. I come across with this occasional statement that the first use of ‘gentrification’ can be found in “Memoirs and Proceedings of […]
New publication: Introduction to a special issue on Latin American gentrifications
Finally, it’s with great pleasure to be able to announce the forthcoming special issue on Latin American gentrifications. This is part of the collective project that I have been working on with Loretta Lees and Ernesto López-Morales. Previous outputs included a co-edited volume Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement, a co-authored monograph Planetary Gentrification, and […]
How are we to overcome ‘gentrification’ as urban disaster?
A forum was held in Seoul on 27 May 2016 to discuss anti-gentrification strategies and legislation, organised by one of the district governments in Seoul. I was not able to accept the invitation to attend and give a talk due to schedule conflict, but wrote a paper “How are we to overcome gentrification as urban […]
[Conference] Global Cities and Urban Studies: Korea in Comparative Perspective
Below is a call for papers forwarded upon request from the conference organiser. This may interest colleagues studying urban issues related to Korea. Please see below. Abstract submission by 5th May 2016. Call for Papers Global Cities and Urban Studies: Korea in Comparative Perspective Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 16-18 June 2016 Over half […]
EARCAG Conference Session, Dec 2016: Speculative Urbanisation and Resistant Politics in East Asia
Following is a session that I am organising with Laam Hae (York University, Canada) as part of the forthcoming EARCAG conference taking place in Hong Kong in December 2016. The 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography Radicalism in Theory and Practice | 6th – 8th December, 2016 | Hong Kong […]
Kindle edition of Planetary Gentrification
Just received an e-mail message from the publisher, explaining how to download an author e-book copy of Planetary Gentrification. It seems like the book’s kindle edition has just been released. Visit here to access the kindle edition: Amazon UK or Amazon US
CFP: 2nd International Conference on Cultural Political Economy, 25-26 August 2016
Forwarding an announcement from Dr Ngai-Ling Sum at Lancaster University. The Cultural Political Economy Research Centre in Lancaster University is organising its second international conference on cultural political economy, this time in partnership with the Graduate School of Education in Bristol University. Below is the CFP for the event. Abstract submission deadline is 29 April 2016. The Cultural […]
AAG annual meeting in San Francisco, 2016
Back in the US, this time to take part in this year’s annual meeing of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, a city that I am visiting for the first time, so quite excited about the prospect of meeting new colleagues, exchanging thoughts and catching up with old friends. My sessions are as […]