Gentrification between urban and rural

Abstract

This commentary focuses on gentrification in urban and rural contexts, focusing on five points: the tradition and the use of comparative approaches in gentrification studies, epistemological issues around the concept of gentrification, the opportunities for productively engaging findings from ‘rural gentrification’ studies for a better understanding of urban phenomena and the blurring of differences between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ in an age of planetary urbanization.