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From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

Author(s) -

Alexander Baker

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

progress in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1477-0288

pISSN - 0309-1325

DOI - 10.1177/0309132520910798

Subject(s) - eviction , enforcement , politics , work (physics) , political science , intervention (counseling) , power (physics) , political economy , emerging technologies , sociology , business , law , engineering , psychology , computer science , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , psychiatry

An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes and effects of eviction in political economy, state power, and cultural difference, emerging work emphasises the subjective experience and sustaining practices of eviction as it happens. This paper makes the case for this turn away from causes and outcomes of ‘eviction’, and towards ‘evicting’ as a set of material technologies and practices that sustain displacement, and explores the implications of such a shift. Research into lived durations of eviction, evicting technologies, and eviction enforcement agencies opens up new conceptual and political fields of intervention.

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