Contested Markets, Contested Cities: Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces

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Sara González

Contested Markets, Contested Cities

Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces

Sara González

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English

Routledge
11 December 2017

Urban communities; Retail sector; Human geography

Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Markets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries. Today, they have a particular value as mostly independent, non-corporate and often informal work spaces serving millions of the most vulnerable communities across the world. At the same time, markets have become fashionable destinations for ‘foodies’ and middle class consumers and tourists looking for authenticity and heritage. The confluence of these potentially contradictory actors and their interests turns markets into ""contested spaces"".

Contested Markets, Contested Cities provides an analytical and multidisciplinary framework within which specific markets from Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Sofia, Madrid, London and Leeds (UK) are explored. This pioneering and highly original work examines public markets from a perspective of contestation looking at their role in processes of gentrification but also in political mobilisation and urban justice.

Edited by: Sara González
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138217485
ISBN 10: 1138217484
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 11 December 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Contested Markets, Contested Cities: Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces

""The volume encourages us to expand our studies of gentrification beyond the residential to investigate the relationship between transformations in retail spaces and access to public and urban life. The different cases presented in the book draw on three overlapping analytical frameworks to present and analyze markets in different cities. Contested Markets, Contested Cities, edited by Sara González, [examines] the different roles played by markets, and their contradictions, from the perspectives of gentrification and the right to the city."" - Liz Mason-Deese, Independent Researcher, Antipode Foundation