Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2227511
Fikir Haile
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Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2226551
Richard Kirk
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2226987
E. A. Karaagac
ABSTRACT The housing programs of Turkey’s Mass Housing Administration (TOKI) for low-income groups put people into debt by selling them houses in remote housing estates and dragging them into a quasi-mortgage system operated by state banks. This paper argues that these (mortgage) debts are not just financial obligations, managed in terms of income and payments but are embodied processes that are cared for within and across households, increasing precarity and intensifying the burdens of social reproduction for women. I draw on ethnographic research conducted in Istanbul in 2019 to examine the lived experiences of indebtedness in a low-income TOKI estate. The paper analyzes the spatial and gendered aspects of the everyday negotiations of debts and labor, theorizing caring for debt as women’s work. I draw attention to how caring for debt becomes women’s life work in the gendered debt geographies that TOKI creates at the periphery of Istanbul.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2217619
M. Ramírez, Tsatia Adzich
ABSTRACT In this commentary on Laura Pulido’s plenary, “Cultural Memory, White Innocence, and United States Territory”, we reflect on the significance of colonial monuments and their toppling in the Canadian context. Thinking through the 2022 toppling of the John “Gassy Jack” Deighton monument, we consider how this act disrupts the settler colonial city and spatial and ideological manifestations of cultural memory. Reading settler texts on Deighton’s “founding” of the Gastown neighborhood through a feminist and anticolonial lens, we insist that the monument erased gendered histories of Indigenous genocide and upheld a particular cultural memory of white settler innocence. Engaging with Squamish cultural memory and the poetry of Toyts-ten-aat Cease Wyss, we consider what it would mean to center decolonial spatial practices and Squamish geographies. Lastly, we explore the complicated politics surrounding the toppling of the Gassy Jack statue, torn down without Squamish consultation, revealing distinctions between anticolonial and decolonial spatial practices.
摘要在对Laura Pulido全体会议“文化记忆、白人无辜与美国领土”的评论中,我们反思了殖民纪念碑及其在加拿大背景下被推倒的意义。通过2022年约翰·“加斯·杰克”·戴顿纪念碑的倒塌,我们思考了这一行为是如何扰乱定居者殖民城市以及文化记忆的空间和意识形态表现的。通过女权主义和反殖民主义的视角阅读关于戴顿“建立”加斯敦社区的定居者文本,我们坚持认为,这座纪念碑抹去了土著种族灭绝的性别历史,维护了白人定居者清白的特殊文化记忆。通过对斯夸米什文化记忆和Toyts ten aat Cease Wyss的诗歌,我们思考了以非殖民化空间实践和斯夸米斯地理为中心意味着什么。最后,我们探讨了在未经Squamish协商的情况下拆除的Gassy Jack雕像被推倒的复杂政治,揭示了反殖民和非殖民空间实践之间的区别。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2221097
Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
{"title":"The role given to citizens in shaping a circular city","authors":"Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado","doi":"10.1080/02723638.2023.2221097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2221097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48178,"journal":{"name":"Urban Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48963783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2219585
L. Berglund, S. Butler
ABSTRACT Growth machine theory, inaugurated by Harvey Molotch in 1976, continues to be a major way to understand the dynamics of urban growth in the U.S. and beyond. Growth machine theory, with all of its recent provocative changes, nevertheless still fails to capture the subtleties and complexities of organizing for accountable development based on growth dynamics in cities. In our essay, community benefits agreements are examined as one of the leading edges of a kind of local politics that Molotch and others have for the most part failed to recognize in their analyses of the political economy of growth, and argue that this analysis has implications for developing alternative and systemically transformative strategies for accountable development. We leverage the theoretical grounding of the growth machine to put forth new transformative strategies for accountable development, imagining what they might theoretically look like if the logic of the growth machine was fully taken into account.
{"title":"Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies","authors":"L. Berglund, S. Butler","doi":"10.1080/02723638.2023.2219585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2219585","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Growth machine theory, inaugurated by Harvey Molotch in 1976, continues to be a major way to understand the dynamics of urban growth in the U.S. and beyond. Growth machine theory, with all of its recent provocative changes, nevertheless still fails to capture the subtleties and complexities of organizing for accountable development based on growth dynamics in cities. In our essay, community benefits agreements are examined as one of the leading edges of a kind of local politics that Molotch and others have for the most part failed to recognize in their analyses of the political economy of growth, and argue that this analysis has implications for developing alternative and systemically transformative strategies for accountable development. We leverage the theoretical grounding of the growth machine to put forth new transformative strategies for accountable development, imagining what they might theoretically look like if the logic of the growth machine was fully taken into account.","PeriodicalId":48178,"journal":{"name":"Urban Geography","volume":"44 1","pages":"1250 - 1258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43073977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2213035
L. Boyle, J. Harlow, L. Keeler
{"title":"(D)evolving smartness: exploring the changing modalities of smart city making in Africa","authors":"L. Boyle, J. Harlow, L. Keeler","doi":"10.1080/02723638.2023.2213035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2213035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48178,"journal":{"name":"Urban Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44278445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2210945
Rea Zaimi
ABSTRACT In National Historic Landmarks across North America, Laura Pulido unearths the production of a cultural memory that preserves the myth of white innocence by systematically denying the constitutive role of colonialism and chattel slavery in the territorial development of the United States. In this reflection essay, I read Pulido’s paper alongside James Baldwin’s writings on white innocence to highlight two of its many timely contributions to theoretical and political engagements with cultural memory in the US empire-state. First, I extend Pulido’s insightful analysis of disavowal to situate white innocence as an empire-state strategy for preserving the constitutive social relations of colonial racial capitalism. Second, I discuss Pulido’s generative gesture toward land as a site from which to forge a relationship to the past marked not by disavowal but by what Baldwin understood as the alternative to white innocence: the capacity for responsibility.
{"title":"Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary","authors":"Rea Zaimi","doi":"10.1080/02723638.2023.2210945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2210945","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In National Historic Landmarks across North America, Laura Pulido unearths the production of a cultural memory that preserves the myth of white innocence by systematically denying the constitutive role of colonialism and chattel slavery in the territorial development of the United States. In this reflection essay, I read Pulido’s paper alongside James Baldwin’s writings on white innocence to highlight two of its many timely contributions to theoretical and political engagements with cultural memory in the US empire-state. First, I extend Pulido’s insightful analysis of disavowal to situate white innocence as an empire-state strategy for preserving the constitutive social relations of colonial racial capitalism. Second, I discuss Pulido’s generative gesture toward land as a site from which to forge a relationship to the past marked not by disavowal but by what Baldwin understood as the alternative to white innocence: the capacity for responsibility.","PeriodicalId":48178,"journal":{"name":"Urban Geography","volume":"44 1","pages":"1093 - 1097"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46781176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2210936
Prerona Das
{"title":"Liquid borders: reflections from fragmented water infrastructure in Guwahati, Northeast India","authors":"Prerona Das","doi":"10.1080/02723638.2023.2210936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2210936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48178,"journal":{"name":"Urban Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45283186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2203585
L. Pulido
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explore how hegemonic forms of cultural memory in the United States, specifically, National Historic Landmarks, represent white supremacy and colonization. National Historic Landmarks are a particular form of commemoration that, according to the National Park Service, “represent an outstanding aspect of American history and culture and embod[y] national significance.” We examined how such sites represent white supremacy and colonization, based on the nomination materials as well as fieldwork, especially in terms of territorial development. Through our analysis, we identified four primary forms of representation: erasure, valorization, multiculturalism, and acknowledgement. Erasure, valorization, and acknowledgement all constitute denial, albeit in distinct ways. Altogether, over 90% of all National Historic Landmarks denied white supremacy and colonization. I argue that such monumental denial is essential to reproducing white innocence; acknowledging the racial violence embedded in the territorial development of the United States would constitute a crisis for the white nation.
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