Abstract
Even though the phenomenon of gentrifcation is ever-growing in contemporary urban contexts, especially in high income countries, it has been mostly overlooked by normative political theorists and philosophers. In this paper we examine the normative dimensions of gentrifcation through the lens of food. By drawing on Huber and Wolkenstein’s (Huber and Wolkenstein, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 17:378–397, 2018) work, we use food
as an example to illustrate the multiple ways in which life plans can be located and to argue that both existing residents and newcomers have an interest in occupancy rights. More specifcally, while newcomers have an interest in moving freely to new neighbourhoods in order to purse their preferred life plans, they also have an interest in being able to continue to pursue those life plans once they have acquired them, and this requires occupancy rights and the implementation of measures aimed at regulating and slowing down gentrifcation. Moreover, when residents belong to already disadvantaged groups, more signifcant anti-gentrifcation measures can be implemented in order to prevent injustices from being compounded.
as an example to illustrate the multiple ways in which life plans can be located and to argue that both existing residents and newcomers have an interest in occupancy rights. More specifcally, while newcomers have an interest in moving freely to new neighbourhoods in order to purse their preferred life plans, they also have an interest in being able to continue to pursue those life plans once they have acquired them, and this requires occupancy rights and the implementation of measures aimed at regulating and slowing down gentrifcation. Moreover, when residents belong to already disadvantaged groups, more signifcant anti-gentrifcation measures can be implemented in order to prevent injustices from being compounded.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Food Ethics |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |