GAPRIA is a research project that aims to examine the gentrification of activism, which entails the ways radical activist neighbourhoods with a history of social justice struggles and horizontal structures become gentrified leading to the eviction of alternative, more emancipatory visions about city life. Although gentrification and eviction studies have thoroughly documented the social and material costs of gentrification policies on the urban poor, the political costs of gentrification relating to the eviction of communities of activists that produce more emancipatory visions about city life have not been thoroughly documented and analyzed. GAPRIA will fill this gap by examining such questions primarily in the urban neighbourhood of Exarchia in Athens, Greece that has a long history of anti-authoritarian and direct democratic struggles.

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This project is coordinated by Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.

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