Schnelzer develops a processual theory of urban residential displacement capable of registering the subtle, everyday and anticipatory forms intensified by the global housing affordability crisis. The iconic idea is a triad: becoming displaceable, feeling displacing and un/doing displacement. Together, these concepts distinguish political-economic vulnerability, cognitive-affective experience and socio-spatial practice. The theoretical contribution is to move beyond eviction or forced relocation as the privileged image of displacement, showing how housing economies produce classed, racialised and gendered conditions in which people may inhabit displacement before physically moving. Methodologically, the article offers a praxeological and Deleuze-inspired conceptual framework, attentive to non-linear temporalities, relational power and everyday manoeuvre. Its bridge to the wider field is the articulation of urban geography, housing studies, affect theory and political economy: displacement becomes a distributed process through which urban life is reorganised before, during and after the loss of place.
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