Abstract
The ‘social violence’ that Neil Smith identified as operating within processes of gentrification and regeneration (Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 15–26, 2010) is often obfuscated by the official language of urban renewal. Hegemonic reports and vision documents dictate a particular narrative of regeneration, which may be at odds with the material conditions on the ground. This chapter will discuss a critical spatial practice in which collaborative, artistic research actions seek to excavate and to visualize the complex forces and contrary logics entangled in processes of regeneration, and the impact those logics have on matters of socio-spatial justice in the city of Limerick, Ireland.
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Woods, F. (2020). Visualizing the Contrary Logics of ‘Regeneration’ Through Arts Practice-Based Research. In: Krase, J., DeSena, J. (eds) Gentrification around the World, Volume I. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41337-8_6
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