Gentrification and surveillance extend colonial core-periphery logic inward

Evidence

Lefebvre says, “Wherever a dominated space is generated and mastered by a dominant space—where there is periphery and centre—there is colonisation.” More broadly, a range of modern territorial phenomena—gentrification, so-called white flight, the rise of surveillance cameras and gated communities—attest to new patterns of core and periphery that often involve the physical and discursive marginalization of minorities and immigrants. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 269

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Lefebvre one-liner is a portable criterion for spotting ‘colonised space’ in a novel’s setting.