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For the benefit of all? State-led gentrification in a contested city

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  • Yael Shmaryahu-Yeshurun

    (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

  • Guy Ben-Porat

    (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

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Gentrification is not only an economic process based on individual desires and decisions and independent of political goals, but also a process led or assisted by governments with economic development and national goals. In this work, we study a state-led ethno-gentrification in Acre, a contested city in the north of Israel. Looking beyond the neoliberal terminology of regeneration, we argue that in contested cities gentrification is an economic development policy often intertwined with national-demographic goals. Yet, while economic and national motivations and policies may reinforce one another, they also produce tensions among policy makers, gentrifiers and local residents. ‘State-led ethno-gentrification’ presents the complexity of the relationship between neoliberalism and nationalism in a contested city. Interviews conducted in Acre with policy makers, Jewish newcomers involved in the gentrification process and Arab residents present a complex picture of goals, interests and concerns, as well as contradictions and tensions.

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  • Yael Shmaryahu-Yeshurun & Guy Ben-Porat, 2021. "For the benefit of all? State-led gentrification in a contested city," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(13), pages 2605-2622, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:58:y:2021:i:13:p:2605-2622
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098020953077
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