This article explores the territorial stigmatisation–gentrification nexus and how it is advanced by an intellectual pipeline between academics and policymakers in the USA. Despite much research revealing the pathologising narratives latent within displacement-inducing urban policies, little work has explicitly sought to underscore the influence of academic discourses in promoting these policies. Centring a triad of discourses surrounding concentrated disadvantage, social mix and neighbourhood effects – emergent namely from the academic fields of urban sociology, criminology, urban planning and urban economics – I provide an evidential linkage between academic discourse and displacement-causing US policymaking by conducting a document analysis of official reports related to two major US government programmes: the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) Demonstration programme and the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) VI programme. I suggest that these academic discourses operate to legitimise displacement via neighbourhood-centric framings which advance territorial stigmatisation and related gentrification. These discourses, I argue, reinforce the real estate state and the destructive capitalist force of uneven geographical development while working to facilitate the disregard of propositions that would effect structural change. I conclude with an explanation for the present configuration of the academy-to-policy pipeline and why it has failed to onboard critical, macro-structurally orientated scholarship, and issue a call for a direction forward.

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流离失所合法化：学术话语、领土污名化和士绅化

本文探讨了领土污名化与绅士化之间的联系，以及美国学者和政策制定者之间的知识渠道如何推动这一联系。尽管许多研究揭示了导致流离失所的城市政策中潜藏的病态叙事，但很少有工作明确强调学术话语对促进这些政策的影响。围绕集中劣势、社会混合和邻里效应的一系列论述（即来自城市社会学、犯罪学、城市规划和城市经济学的学术领域），我通过开展对与美国政府两项主要计划相关的官方报告进行文件分析：转向公平住房机会 (MTO) 示范计划和为世界各地人民提供住房机会 (HOPE) VI 计划。我建议这些学术话语通过以邻里为中心的框架来使流离失所合法化，从而促进领土污名化和相关的中产阶级化。我认为，这些话语强化了房地产国家和地理发展不平衡的资本主义破坏力，同时又促进了对影响结构变革的主张的忽视。最后，我解释了从学术到政策的管道的当前配置，以及为什么它未能提供关键的、宏观结构导向的学术成果，并呼吁指明前进的方向。