This paper provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept resilience has been applied to places. It is based upon three main points. First, ecological conservative when social relations. Second, externally defined by state agencies expert knowledge. Third, concern with places misplaced in terms spatial scale, since processes which shape operate primary at scale capitalist In place resilience, we offer resourcefulness as an alternative approach for community groups foster.

In the midst of what has been termed ‘urban age’, two divergent approaches to understanding life in cities have emerged. this first three urban geography progress reports, I engage these strands theory, identifying key differences their intellectual, political and geographical genealogies, consider epistemological implications. Borrowing from Chakrabarty’s concept History 1 2, name ‘Urbanization 1’ 2’. Urbanization is exemplified by planetary urbanization thesis that posits complete society,...

In this article we offer a set of resources for scholar-activists to reflect on and guide their practice. We begin by suggesting that research questions should be triangulated consider not only scholarly merit but the intellectual political projects findings will advance interest community social movement collaborators.

In August 2014, a white police officer shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, fueling the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. The following March, US Department of Justice produced report showing that department Ferguson had been explicitly tasked by city officials with using nuisance laws and traffic violations to raise revenue for municipal coffers. this second three progress reports I consider both empirical evidence analytical tools urban geographers...

How, in the present, have lands of no one emerged and normalized a mode organizing planet according to life lifelessness?-Katherine McKittrick (2013, 8) He was staring out at impounded waters Artibonite.They stretched off east west sight among mountains.From here amount land dam had drowned seemed vast.Still gazing, [Paul] Farmer said, "To understand Russia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka Life Savers, you be on top this hill."The list clearly jocular.So his...

In ongoing struggles for collective liberation, what use is theory? this short commentary I respond to Bob Lake's provocative argument that theory of little the people about whom it usually made. While share and admire sense urgency scepticism, come different conclusions uses value making, particularly when done by those understand themselves as part processes they study.

Drawing on an analysis of ongoing collaboration with rural peasant movements in Bangladesh, we explore the possibility forging solidarity through practices scholar-activism. In so doing, consider practice reflexivity, reconsider forms solidarity, and draw concept convergence spaces as a way to envision sites possibility. We mobilize notion situated solidarities propose alternative form reflexive scholarship. then posit that there are six ‘practices’ provide useful schematic for thinking...

Feminist scholars, urban and otherwise, have painstakingly illustrated the way in which how we know is intimately related to what can know, that these knoweldges are always socially, institutionally, geographically situated. The making traveling of knowledges itself political, as vantage points purported be achieved various epistemological frameworks. emergence planetary urbanization thesis takes on a particular interesting valence when read against this body feminist work scholarship. In...

AbstractMinneapolis has the twin distinctions of having one most highly rated park systems in United States and some pronounced racial disparities wealth homeownership. We argue that this coupling urban nature inequality was intentionally produced by city's real estate industry local government. Drawing on Mapping Prejudice's first complete metro-wide map covenants—clauses property deeds barring sale to anyone not considered white—we pair quantitative spatial analysis with archival research...

Research has demonstrated the impact of historic discriminatory mortgage lending (i.e., “redlining”) on distribution environmental benefits and burdens, while legacies other racially housing policies remain unexplored. Using a novel dataset racial covenants in Minneapolis its suburbs, first complete map for any U.S. city, we find significant positive association between covenant presence cooler temperatures, increased tree canopy, reduced impervious surface today. When compared to redlining,...

AbstractBased on the need for meaningful political responses to socionatural change, in this article we develop an interim politics of resourcefulness as a strategy addressing limitations postpolitical environmental governance. Drawing and epistemological insights third-world feminism well ongoing collaborative with justice organizations West Atlanta, argue that visions just futures must necessarily be generated conversation historically marginalized communities. We offer one way forging...

Geologists are considering in earnest whether to mark the emergence of a new geological epoch – characterized by human impacts on geology planet as dawn Anthropocene. In this third three urban geography progress reports, I identify interrelated elements what call ‘Anthropocene thinking’ non-linearity, reworked temporalities, and ontologies systemicity that invite perceived need for ‘anticipatory governance’ pervade contemporary theory governance. This is exemplified, argue, two current...

After Hurricane Katrina devastated the landscape of much coastal Mississippi, regional boosters frequently made counterintuitive claim that damage wrought by storm actually represented an opportunity. Based on extensive empirical research and drawing from literature racialization, white privilege, urban neoliberalism, disaster capitalism, I show "opportunity" produced was to remake in ways deepen neoliberalization governance region. The justification these governing accumulation strategies...

In this commentary, I argue that Rancière’s concept of the ‘part those have no part’ is a valuable and overlooked intervention in how constitution ‘the political’ can be understood. While some reject narrowing what counts as ‘political’ work, by drawing attention to inevitability constitutive outside social, Rancière forces constructive reckoning with way more capacious conceptions political elide reproduce inherently partial nature attendant social formation.

This virtual special issue considers the empirical and theoretical resources that back catalogue of Urban Studies specifically, discipline urban studies more broadly, has to offer our understanding rapidly evolving contemporary moment in USA, usefully dubbed ‘The Age Ferguson’ (Bernard (2015); Derickson (forthcoming). Mobilising concept ‘racial state’, this article Ferguson context state rescaling globalisation continue flesh out role difference its geographical expression play smoothing...

In this article, I consider the politics of making knowledge and building theory about displacement that has as its goal transformative social change. Drawing on my experience conducting research a member Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank, engage with strands Black feminist thought to pursuing what call itineraries verification. propose thick conception production best understood bundle relations. By conception, mean inextricably link products practices (e.g., academic publications,...

The global uptake of green infrastructure in urban settings holds considerable promise for fostering both social and ecological benefits. Recognizing the imperative to ensure equitable distribution these advantages, this paper draws on rich traditions justice considerations within studies inform research greening. Focusing three key trends - reconceptualizing 'urban' category, acknowledging role historical processes shaping contemporary uneven unjust geographies, considering power dynamics...

The comfortable relationship between the overwhelmingly white, southern Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead and a major hub nightlife in region unraveled early 2000s as entire nightclub cluster was delegitimized, discursively constructed dangerous out control, ultimately razed to make space for luxury shopping. This paper sets query what social cultural relations account this massive unpredicted reconfiguration urban epicenter wealth, whiteness, power Atlanta. By mobilizing concept...

In this response to Ananya Roy's plenary talk at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in 2015, "What's urban about critical theory," I engage work Nancy Fraser and feminist epistemologists argue for necessity a robust politics recognition knowledge projects with emancipatory aims. question political utility empirical accuracy increasingly popular assertion that there is no analytical outside category "urban," argue, like many feminist, post-colonial, anti-racist scholars...

Resilience is more than a buzzword: it normative good to which civil society groups and regional governments aspire. In this brief piece, I argue that 'resilience' as an end in for itself uninspiring political vision fetishizes the status quo not suited emancipatory social change desired by have employed term. Following Braun (2014, "A New Urban Dispositif? Governing Life Age of Climate Change." Environment Planning D: Society Space 32: 49–64) suggesting resilience has become 'dispositif...