Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order

摘要

Most social scientists are by now very familiar with the ways in which neo-liberalisation has transformed the matrix of city spaces, entailing intensified differentiation, displacement of the poor and a significant degree of conflict and contestation. In this way, Swapna Banerjee-Guha's recent edited volume Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order does not entail a lot of new material on the theoretical side of things.