2009/09/05 by Noah Quastel · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
paper · doi:10.2747/0272-3638.30.7.694
openalex publication_date 2009/09/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article explores the possibilities for a political ecology of gentrification. Gentrification research, while firmly rooted in materialist social science, has not yet broadened its interests to consider ecological aspects of, or the role in gentrification of, discourses, social movements, and state policies of the environment. Understanding the political ecologies of gentrification involves recognizing the ways in which material relations and uneven resource consumption, concepts of nature, and the politics of urban environmental management affect gentrification processes. By synthesizing diverse literatures in urban studies, political ecology, urban environmental governance, consumption studies, and gentrification, this study argues that Vancouver, British Columbia represents a well-developed urban crucible for the new political ecologies of gentrification in North America. New developments in Vancouver increasingly contribute to gentrification using languages of sustainability and green consumption in a process of ecological gentrification.