ABSTRACT
The need to develop a theory of 'gentrination' comes precisely in response to a need to look beyond a simply linear reading of human history. Gentrination is the scalar equivalent of urban gentrification at the national territory level. Similar to gentrification, it is a gradual process. The building of a 'security fence' along its Turkish border, the mobilisation of the supra-national policing force FRONTEX and NATO along the Greek border as well as the erection of the now infamous hotspots across the country, all point at this newly found key function of the Greek territory following its gentrination. Gentrination therefore has it both, the plight of displacement for large populations and the restructuring and functioning anew of the territory in which it takes place. Our current global moment marks a crucial turn: the return, through gentrination, of capitalism's rampant, destructive force now edging close to the core.
