It responds to recent calls to shift the focus of urban theory from North to South and demonstrates how widely used concepts must be interrogated and reworked as they travel from place to place. What Cam doesn't realize is that his transformation is far from complete.This article draws on original empirical research in Accra, Ghana to explore the particular dynamics that contemporary processes of class-based dispossession assume at the urban scale, posing the concept of 'accumulation by urban dispossession'. There his life begins to follow a familiar and comfortable pattern and gives him hope of a new normal. Forced to embrace his altered self, Cam starts over in the place he least expected. All attempts at finding out who or what is vandalizing his once-immaculate appearance are coming up empty, and the ever-multiplying tattoos aren't just destroying his looks they're destroying his whole life. Every time it's a blemish even his most expensive exfoliant can't scrub away. Mornings in the SoCal apartment he shares with his best bud are all starting off the same way: Cam wakes up and discovers a new ink breakout somewhere on his body. Now more tattoos are beginning to appear and Cam has no idea why. He never wanted to forget the weekend he barely remembers, so he got himself a permanent souvenir: his first tattoo. The jackpot Cam hit in Vegas finally gave him the chance to party like a rock star. What Cam doesn't realize is that his transformation is far from complete.
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