Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1177/19427786231199765
Rodrigo Caimanque, Ernesto López-Morales
Over the past decade, new municipalism has emerged as an alternative form of politics emphasising radical democracy and community-based urban agendas. However, recent election results and challenges in navigating existing institutional frameworks worldwide have prompted a further examination of the potential and limitations of new municipalism in different contexts. This article evaluates the implementation of new municipal governance in Valparaíso, Chile, where a neighbourhood organisation backed by the local government clashed with a developer seeking to privatise and redevelop a critical ecological area called Pümpin Park. The city's significant public park shortage led to widespread social unrest, protests, and legal inquiries. Using firsthand accounts and official records, this study analyses how Valparaíso practices new municipalism by collaborating with grassroots movements to achieve the project's cancellation. However, it is still unclear whether the municipality's long-term urban development plans will continue to reflect a new municipalist agenda beyond this particular conflict.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1177/19427786231200717
Jamal Nabulsi
In this visual essay, I curate and annotate nine photos of Palestinian prisoner graffiti, foregrounding a Palestinian politics of conviction. Prisoner graffiti is a prominent genre of Palestinian street art, countering Israel's system of colonial carcerality that attempts to dispossess and displace Palestinians. Israeli colonial carcerality functions not only through the “small prison” of Israeli detention, but through the “large prison” of Israeli colonial occupation and apartheid. The distinct forms that this incarceration takes across the fragments of Palestine—from the lands occupied in 1948, 1967, and the diaspora—all aim to crush a Palestinian will to resist. Israel works to construct its carceral systems as inescapable, suggesting to Palestinians that they have no choice but to submit to their colonisation. Against this colonial carcerality, we find in Palestinian prisoner graffiti what I term a politics of conviction. Persisting through their conviction and imprisonment under Israeli colonial law, Palestinians cultivate a conviction in liberation. Directly countering the apparent inevitability of incarceration and the reification of carceral systems, this politics of conviction asserts the inevitability of al-ḥurriya (freedom) from both the small prison and the large prison. This conviction in liberation is constituted by a range of feelings, including love for the prisoner and the dignity that they embody. I suggest that this politics of conviction might form the affective basis of a distinctly Palestinian abolitionism—working to abolish the colonial structures that uphold both the small and large prisons.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1177/19427786231199241
Kionna L. Henderson, Ashton Shortridge, Richard C. Sadler
Background Racial injustices, both within the social and environmental aspect, are increasingly in national discussions due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent violence perpetrated by police against Black civilians that resulted in tragic deaths. An ongoing environmental injustice that began in 2014 is the Flint Water Crisis (FWC). The purpose of this study is to conduct a quasi-experimental research design to compare Flint to a sociodemographically similar city to determine what effect, if any, the FWC had on maternal health from 2012 to 2017 across three time periods: pre-during-and-post-FWC. Methods The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s 21 severe maternal morbidity (SMM) rates severed as indicators of maternal health status and were collected from the Michigan Inpatient Database. Differences between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White race codes determined the maternal health disparity gap. R-statistical software and k-mean analysis were used to analyze cities that were comparable to Flint. Difference-in-difference methodology was used to compare the difference in SMM rates for Flint and a sociodemographically comparable city. Results On average, non-Hispanic Black women had a higher odds of experiencing a SMM across all three time periods: pre-FWC = 1.29, during-FWC = 1.2, and post-FWC = 1.05. Conclusions Maternal health outcomes observed in Flint during the FWC are significantly influenced by race. The study showed that regardless of a woman giving birth in a predominantly Black city, an environmental hazard, and her age range, maternal health disparities are still present if that woman identifies as Black.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1177/03091325231198240
Timur Hammond, Brittany Cook
Translation has been a core concern for geographers, particularly in the context of our discipline’s ongoing debate about how to world Geography otherwise. Rather than seeing translation as simply an act of bridging pre-existing differences, this article conceptualizes translation as an act producing differences-in-relation. It traces four “trajectories of translation” that bring geographers’ discussions of translation into new configurations: (1) Topoglossia, foregrounding the linkage between place and language; (2) imbrication, a metaphor for thinking difference-in-relation; (3) relays, an alternative to the metaphor of the bridge; and (4) communities, defined not by self-identity but by their shared practice of translation.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1177/19427786231190848
Jason C. Mueller
Dystopian visions of global pandemics, political crises, and human suffering abound, from fictitious television shows to the ongoing ravages of COVID-19. When we witness isolated instances of suffering and collective struggle, and identify their relationship to large-scale social crises, we are unveiling pieces of the totality. Things which might otherwise be portrayed as a local problem are instead viewed as a part of a larger social system. The Turkish Netflix series Sıcak Kafa (English title: Hot Skull) offers a story of pandemic lockdowns, rebellion, love, and subjectivity, touching upon important issues of radical political theory and action. This article connects key moments in Hot Skull to several important Marxist and psychoanalytic concepts, showing how the collective struggles in this Netflix series can help us identify concrete instances and attempts at overcoming violence in the modern world-system. By comparing the events of Hot Skull to our current predicament of living through a deadly pandemic, this article reaches an important conclusion: Our ability to radically change our circumstances through chance encounters with love and political rebellion remains real, potent alternatives to living in a persistent state of isolation and despair.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1177/19427786231187648
Robin D. G. Kelley
What did Mike Davis mean when he referred to himself as an “old school socialist”? In this tribute, I argue that Davis laid out a theory and praxis of revolutionary ethics. With a focus on Davis's first book, Prisoners of the American Dream, I show how he gives us one of the earliest and sharpest critiques of neoliberalism while being hopeful about multiracial insurgency. I argue that even in the bleakest of times, Davis maintained a Gramscian commitment to worker rebellions, with a keen analysis of the ebb and flow of worker power. Most of all, he knew that the work was necessary and that the work entailed fighting and organizing—as an old school socialist.
迈克·戴维斯称自己为“老派社会主义者”是什么意思?在这篇颂词中，我认为戴维斯提出了革命伦理学的理论和实践。我将重点放在戴维斯的第一本书《美国梦的囚徒》(Prisoners of the American Dream)上，向我们展示他是如何在对多种族叛乱充满希望的同时，对新自由主义提出最早、最尖锐的批评之一的。我认为，即使在最黯淡的时代，戴维斯对工人的反抗也保持着葛兰西式的承诺，对工人权力的潮起潮落进行了敏锐的分析。最重要的是，他知道这项工作是必要的，这项工作需要战斗和组织——作为一个老派社会主义者。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1177/19427786231187219
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1177/19427786231195651
Ananya Roy
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1177/19427786231192956
M. Giménez
In this article, I argue that intersectionality, in addition to being a widely used social science analytical framework, fulfills important ideological functions in the context of capitalist social formations. It reinforces the turn toward identity politics and theorizing, thus strengthening the use of identity categories of analysis as proxies for class and, consequently, the racial, gender, ethnic, and other divisions that weaken the working class and undermine the possibility of the emergence of working class solidarity.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1177/03091325231194657
Madeleine Hamlin
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of scholarship in abolition geography. But what does it mean to theorize abolition in geography and what do geographers bring to abolition? This paper seeks to theorize geography’s abolitionist turn, tracing its roots from Du Bois’ ideas of abolition democracy through to contemporary iterations and variations. In doing so, it offers property and the state as key analytics: property insofar as it undergirds carcerality, racial capitalism, and settler colonialism alike, and the state insofar as it comprises both a site from which to make demands and a perpetrator of carceral and racial violence.
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