Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing - Couverture souple

Crosby, Andrew

 
9781773636375: Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1773636375 ISBN 13 : 9781773636375
Editeur : Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss.

How can the City of Ottawa aspire to become "North America's most liveable mid-sized city" while large-scale, demolition-driven evictions displace hundreds of people and destroy a community? Troubling discourses of urban liveability, revitalization and improvement, Crosby examines the deliberate destruction of home--domicide--and tenant resistance in the Heron Gate neighbourhood in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin land.

Heron Gate is a large rental neighbourhood owned by one multi-billion-dollar real estate investment firm. Around 800 people--predominantly lower-income, racialized households--have been demovicted and displaced from the neighbourhood since 2016, leading to the emergence of the Herongate Tenant Coalition to fight the evictions and confront the landlord-developer. This case study is meticulously documented through political activist ethnography, making this book a brilliant example of ethical engagement and methodological integrity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, with a PhD in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. He is co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018, Fernwood).

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Éditeur
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1773636375
ISBN 13 
9781773636375
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
196
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