Knieriem, Lagendijk and van Leeuwen reconceptualise gentrification through the moral experience of misrecognition rather than through displacement alone. The iconic idea is that being forced to leave, witnessing neighbourhood transformation or resisting demolition are not merely spatial-economic events, but experiences of intersubjective disregard. The theoretical contribution lies in applying an expanded recognition framework, drawing on Honneth, to show that gentrification produces multiple moral wrongs: loss of home, disrespect, invisibilisation, humiliation and denial of civic standing. Methodologically, the paper grounds this argument in interviews with residents of Rotterdam’s Tweebosbuurt, attending to how injustice is narrated by people living through urban redevelopment. Its bridge to the wider field is the connection between critical geography, political theory, housing studies and urban resistance. Gentrification becomes legible not only as capital-led displacement, but as a conflict over recognition, voice and the moral status of inhabitants within the city.
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