Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists. Indigenous land dispossession and reclamation, capital accumulation in the form of real-estate assets, labour, and technological development are all obscured by this persistent fiction.
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Across c\a\n\a\d\a, Black communities have been particularly vulnerable to gentrification due to anti-Black racism. Many have faced dramatic consequences of displacement, cultural erasure, and economic decline, resulting from state led infrastructure construction and zoning and planning policies that benefit whiter and wealthier communities.