Desplazamientos y gentrificación extendida. Políticas neoliberales y resistencias sociales en la ciudad de México

Abstract

The recent dynamics of the Real Estate sector in Mexico City influences new gentrification processes, having as the main support the State transformation as a facilitator agent of estate market jointly with the instrumental financial capital. The estate market interests within the city and suburbs expressed by the “Compact City” policy, have derived on gentrification and generalized social displacements related to the expensive and intensive edificability. The paper evidences the displacements induced by the private and public-private developers. It is also analysed the neoliberal conditions, strategies and synergies which contribute to the profitability of spaces within Mexico City, and its association with different and growing experiences of social resistance against displacements. Two districts are highlighted: North Polanco y Colonia Juárez, where residents have organized social actions against the neoliberal gentrification projects and towards the defense of territory and the right to the city.