At the Limits of Urban Theory: Racial Banishment in the Contemporary City
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton St, London WC2A 2AEIn cities around the world, especially in the United States, processes of socio-spatial restructuring continue to unfold. Often understood as neoliberal urbanism and often identified through concepts such as gentrification, these processes entail the displacement of subaltern classes to the far edges of urban life. In this talk, Ananya Roy argues that it is necessary to analyse such transformations through a theorisation of racial capitalism.
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