Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-economic Transactions in Intervention Societies

摘要

This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local-intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-economic rather than economic nature. To demonstrate this, the article explores interactions and (non-)material transactions between residents in the neighbourhood of Jabal al-Weibdeh, Amman showing how the international presence has transformed the neighbourhood's infrastructure and norms.