.top-header{ transform: scale(0.5); transform-origin: top left; width: 200%; } Unstable Installation Series: Schnelzer, J. (2025) ‘Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement: conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis’, Urban Geography, 46(4), pp. 794–816. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2024.2412919.

Schnelzer, J. (2025) ‘Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement: conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis’, Urban Geography, 46(4), pp. 794–816. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2024.2412919.


Schnelzer offers a processual theory of urban residential displacement adequate to the global housing affordability crisis. The iconic idea is a three-part conceptual grammar: becoming displaceable, feeling displacing and un/doing displacement. This triad names the political-economic vulnerability, cognitive-affective experience and socio-spatial practice through which displacement is lived before, during and after physical movement. Its theoretical contribution is to move displacement beyond eviction as event, toward a non-linear and relational account of how housing economies reorganise classed, racialised and gendered urban life. Methodologically, the article operates through conceptual synthesis, drawing on praxeological and Deleuze-inspired thought to articulate dissimilar forms of displacement. Its conceptual operation is temporal differentiation: displacement becomes a distributed condition rather than a single rupture. The bridge to the wider field connects housing studies, affective geography, political economy and theories of urban precarity.