Description
This special collection aims to offer insight into the state of geography on questions of social justice and urban life. While using social justice and the city as our starting point may signal inspiration from Harvey’s (1973) book of the same name, the task of examining the emergence of this concept has revealed the deep influence of grassroots urban uprisings of the late 1960s, earlier and contemporary meditations on our urban worlds (Jacobs, 1961, 1969; Lefebvre, 1974; Massey and Catalano, 1978) as well as its enduring significance built upon by many others for years to come. Laws (1994) noted how geographers came to locate social justice struggles in the city through research that examined the ways in which material conditions contributed to poverty and racial and gender inequity, as well as how emergent social movements organized to reshape urban spaces across diverse engagements including the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests, feminist and LGBTQ activism, the American Indian Movement, and disability access.
This book originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City
Nik Heynen, Dani Aiello, Caroline Keegan, and Nikki Luke
1. Geography and the Priority of Injustice
Clive Barnett
2. Against the Evils of Democracy: Fighting Forced Disappearance and Neoliberal Terror in Mexico
Melissa W. Wright
3. Locating the Social in Social Justice
Robert W. Lake
4. Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put
Loretta Lees, Sandra Annunziata, and Clara Rivas-Alonso
5. Urban Movements and the Genealogy of Urban Rights Discourses: The Case of Urban Protesters against Redevelopment and Displacement in Seoul, South Korea
Hyun Bang Shin
6. Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”
Solange Muñoz
7. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice
Manissa M. Maharawal and Erin McElroy
8. From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People
Kate Swanson
9. Police Torture in Chicago: Theorizing Violence and Social Justice in a Racialized City
Aretina R. Hamilton and Kenneth Foote
10. The Uneven Geographies of America’s Hidden Rape Crisis: A District-Level Analysis of Underpolicing in St. Louis
Alec Brownlow
11. Building Relationships within Difference: An Anarcha-Feminist Approach to the Micropolitics of Solidarity
Carrie Mott
12. Praxis in the City: Care and (Re)Injury in Belfast and Orumiyeh
Lorraine Dowler and A. Marie Ranjbar
13. Without Space: The Politics of Precarity and Dispossession in Postsocialist Bucharest
Jasmine Arpagian and Stuart C. Aitken
14. Neoliberalizing Social Justice in Infrastructure Revitalization Planning: Analyzing Toronto’s More Moss Park Project in Its Early Stages
David J. Roberts and John Paul Catungal
15. Safe Cities and Queer Spaces: The Urban Politics of Radical LGBT Activism
Kian Goh
16. Disciplining Deserving Subjects through Social Assistance: Migration and the Diversification of Precarity in Singapore
Junjia Ye and Brenda S. A. Yeoh
17. Occupy Hong Kong? Gweilo Citizenship and Social Justice
Michael Joseph Richardson
18. Land Justice as a Historical Diagnostic: Thinking with Detroit
Sara Safransky
19. Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. West: Indigenous and Mexican American Struggles for Social Justice
Laura Barraclough
20. The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in Baltimore
Morgan Grove, Laura Ogden, Steward Pickett, Chris Boone, Geoff Buckley, Dexter H. Locke, Charlie Lord, and Billy Hall
21. “This Port Is Killing People”: Sustainability without Justice in the Neo-Keynesian Green City
Juan De Lara
22. “Wagering Life” in the Petro-City: Embodied Ecologies of Oil Flow, Capitalism, and Justice in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Gabriela Valdivia
23. Decolonizing Urban Political Ecologies: The Production of Nature in Settler Colonial Cities
Michael Simpson and Jen Bagelman
24. Datafying Disaster: Institutional Framings of Data Production Following Superstorm Sandy
Ryan Burns
25. Cultivating (a) Sustainability Capital: Urban Agriculture, Ecogentrification, and the Uneven Valorization of Social Reproduction
Nathan McClintock
26. From “Rust Belt” to “Fresh Coast”: Remaking the City through Food Justice and Urban Agriculture
Margaret Pettygrove and Rina Ghose
