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Spectre of neoliberal gentrification in Fiji: the price Suva's poor must pay

Spectre of neoliberal gentrification in Fiji: the price Suva's poor must pay This article seeks to examine Fiji's current housing crisis against the backdrop of neoliberal urbanism. In doing so, the article offers a fresh new perspective on the marginalisation, displacement and outright exclusion of the urban poor from the inner city areas of Suva. Among the trademark growth problems experienced by neoliberal cities across the globe, the crisis of urban housing affordability is perhaps more pronounced in Suva given economies of scale and constraints in Fiji's land tenure system. This article seeks to highlight that Suva's inner city spaces are being transformed along the lines of market fundamentalism and that this will exacerbate the social exclusion and displacement of Suva's poor. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Viewpoint Wiley

Spectre of neoliberal gentrification in Fiji: the price Suva's poor must pay

Asia Pacific Viewpoint , Volume 62 (1) – Apr 1, 2021

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Wiley
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© 2021 Victoria University of Wellington and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
ISSN
1360-7456
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1467-8373
DOI
10.1111/apv.12272
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Abstract

This article seeks to examine Fiji's current housing crisis against the backdrop of neoliberal urbanism. In doing so, the article offers a fresh new perspective on the marginalisation, displacement and outright exclusion of the urban poor from the inner city areas of Suva. Among the trademark growth problems experienced by neoliberal cities across the globe, the crisis of urban housing affordability is perhaps more pronounced in Suva given economies of scale and constraints in Fiji's land tenure system. This article seeks to highlight that Suva's inner city spaces are being transformed along the lines of market fundamentalism and that this will exacerbate the social exclusion and displacement of Suva's poor.

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Asia Pacific ViewpointWiley

Published: Apr 1, 2021

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