This chapter provides fresh insight into the ´old´ international division of labour and into the development of capitalism in ´resource rich´ countries whose longstanding historical role in the world market has been to ...

The rent gap theory, a consistent explanation of gentrification in inner-city spaces, sees a growing disparity between capitalized ground rent (CGR) and potential ground rent (PGR) as a catalyst for large-scale property ...

Land upzoning and state investment in public infrastructure are two of the principal factors that increase the rent gap in the city; however, the scale of their impact remains unknown. This paper presents a novel method ...

In this paper, we aim to examine the changing dynamics of the conflict over seed saving of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina. After analysing recent global transformations in seed production, we provide a summary ...

Differential and absolute ground rent as extraordinary profit that remains permanent due to private ownership of non-reproducible conditions of production (Marx 2000) may be disputed by different classes and fractions ...

The ongoing choreography of extractive industries asks for a deeper appraisal about the processes and scales underpinning resource extraction. This paper unpacks how the assembly between natural gas production networks, ...

Land upzoning and state investment in public infrastructure are two of the principal factors that increase the rent gap in the city; however, the scale of their impact remains unknown. This paper presents a novel method ...

Rent gap theory is used here as a way to analyse exclusionary displacement in six high-rise urban renewal areas in Santiago, Chile. Drawing on a survey of 746 original households, this article finds 40 per cent of ...

This paper claims the existence of a particular form of gentrification by ground rent dispossession in Chile, a consequence of a unique mix of entrepreneurial strategies linked to large-scale urban renewal, flexible local ...