Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland

Morgan Hamlin (2025)

Visual Studies, online first, pp. 1-20.

Abstract. This article examines how artist-activists deglamourised the large-scale Tāmaki regeneration programme and visualised the impact of state-led gentrification in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Extending Laurent Thévenot’s sociology of engagements to the analysis of visual data, I argue that familiarity, as a type of valuation, can be evoked effectively to critique gentrification. The positive aspects of state-led gentrification can make it difficult for housing activists to justify their arguments and expose the negative effects of a redevelopment/regeneration project. However, in the case of the Tāmaki regeneration, the artist-activists used images of gentrification to reveal displacement and the privatisation of state housing. Analysing interviews, public exhibitions, and researcher-produced images, I highlight the important role that visual activism and research plays in resisting and documenting state-led ‘positive’ gentrification.

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GdL (27 décembre 2025). Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland. Économie des conventions. Consulté le 8 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15f3t