Gebundenes Buch

Contested Markets, Contested Cities

Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces

Herausgeber: González, Sara

Beschreibung

The first book explore the contemporary challenges taking place in traditional retail spaces, drawing on international case studies from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Bulgaria, &the UK. It adopts a relational and multi-scalar approach to explore markets from the inside and out, connecting to wider local, national and global processes.

Autor

Sara González is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK where she teaches on critical urban geography courses and leads the research group on Social Justice, Cities and Citizenship. She has published work in international journals on the political and economic transformation in cities, the neoliberalisation of urban policies, gentrification and grassroots contestation of these processes. Between 2012 and 2016 she was the Principal Investigator in Leeds of the EU-funded Contested Cities network, bringing together more than 40 researchers across Europe and Latin America. Between 2006 and 2016 she was part of the editorial collective of the open-access ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. She favours participatory action research methodologies and has been a very active member of a campaign to support her local market in Leeds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138217485
• ISBN-10: 1138217484
• Artikelnr.: 50427865