Inchicore, Gentrification and Cycles of Violence

Critical Ecologies

This podcast episode explores the ideas of gentrification and slow violence. It also discusses how gentrification can be seen as the eventual product of a long period of slow violence through disinvestment and is functionally dependent upon a history of violence in an area. In order to make the links between the two spatial justice frameworks it looks on the case study of Inchicore. Dr. Bresnihan and his interviewee, postgraduate diploma student Séamus Murray, briefly go over a history of cycles of state disinvestment and disregard in the area before moving with particular focus onto the currently unfolding redevelopment and gentrification project on the last of the St. Michael's estate sites - and the work being done to resist it.