Abstract As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces containment, displacement, cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured understood as productive force in denial constitutional rights protections. therefore provide legal reading carcerality, establishes prisons sine qua non carceral landscape, preceded an analysis how reliance on civil law, nuisance ordinances, other methods circumvention absence criminal...

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The car is a primary locus for police-civilian interaction as measured by routine legal intrusion into the lives of vulnerable populations – communities color, undocumented immigrants, and those experiencing homelessness in particular. It car’s ability to transport bodies well its liminality hybrid public-private space that facilitates such coercive carceral contact. I therefore argue increased inclusion contact made with operators occupants within studies policing geographers. In this...

I bring an understanding of the concept and practice “aversive racism” to scholarly thinking about community formation. argue that exclusionary contours are in part a product racialized in- outgrouping from which people’s capacities for place-making judged localized policing is instigated. In bringing these concepts, formations, practices together, this paper contributes how urbanists might continue think role race displacement, particularly as it plays out context neighborhood change...

It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want visit there.—Mark Twain on Los AngelesI often tell would-be visitors that unless they plan stay while, might as well bypass Angeles ...

As part of our theorization the place-making conduct new residents living in a gentrifying neighborhood Los Angeles, we identify curious paradox which white liberals openly disavow overtly punitive policing practices, yet continue to actively call for or tacitly accept police action taken against individuals they perceive be “out place.” We examine this seeming contradiction context contemporary legal mechanism called civil gang injunction, allows banishment purported “gang members” from...

In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the mapping counting dislocated bodies. As part our argument, introduce concept aversive racism to geographical literature on displacement, pointing insidious mode spatial practice is widely constitutive place-making place-taking processes in gentrifying areas. We do by first providing review analysis has been conceptualized measured...

Abstract Addressing a need for carceral geographical research conducted from inside prison gates, we discuss the spatial context in which racialisation occurs, including its relationship to performance of “politics”. We argue that convoluted and contentious racial categorisation inmates begins with “racial priming” results sorting” possesses logic derived institutional partitioning street‐level cordoning individual group identities. reveal how is relied upon through both self‐segregation...

Interviews conducted in situ—literally at “the scene of the crime” 1 —can elicit more nuanced data than interviews locations removed from where activity question occurred. This is particularly true when conducting research on and with members spatially conscious, “deviant,” vulnerable communities who may for sake social existential survival defer to rehearsed narratives formula stories about their actions perspectives interviewed “safe” spaces. In this article, which based participant...

In this photo essay, I bring to light the work of Leonard Nadel. As sole photographer for Los Angeles Housing Authority from approximately 1949 1952, Nadel captured images abject poverty and substandard housing reminiscent New York City's Lower East Side at turn century. may not, however, be included on list great social reformist photographers such as Jacob Riis, because his images, perhaps unwittingly, inspired slum clearance, displacement communities, bad policy that led some worst stock...

Abstract Despite the fact that any semblance of a “police studies” in geography is relatively recent, with calls for its development and expansion still being made literature today, geographers have nevertheless important contributions to how scholars understand police policing as multifaceted manifestation state power, coercion, territoriality. Given formative already been made, promises increased scholarly activity come, there remains much opportunity become go‐to social scientific...

We provide an example of how race- and place-based legacies disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes under the auspices Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) were followed decades anti-gang over-policing tactics at scale neighbourhood. show HOLC-mediated mapped has sustained community stigmatisation wrought unjust racist social policy seen to this day in contemporary geographies gang abatement form injunction ‘safety zones’. As we illustrate with use two case studies from Los...

Motivated by my own experiences with serial eviction, I argue for increased reliance on the body as archive and memory data to be used in storytelling process about displacement unhoming. Increased inclusion of personal reflection literature has potential further humanize a discipline that is already well-steeped utilizing qualitative methods, abstract theorization, quantification reveal other people's loss, longing, belonging. autoethnographic approaches reflect write deeply stored, somatic...

A series of retaining walls on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles have been used as platforms for traditional murals since 1975. Today, however, it is the “technically illegal” graffiti-murals these same that tacitly tolerated if not outright accepted by community. Unlike sanctioned previously painted famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache Eye One's Angeles: Untitled has hit with graffiti or over city. I argue such acceptance calls antigraffiti laws into question...

Abstract Motivated by a critical concern for state‐sanctioned coercion, control, and containment across “free society,” geographers have extended Foucault's concept of “the carceral” to more increasingly diffuse spaces processes. In this paper, however, we aim re‐center the prison in carceral geographies literature, reasserting it as sine qua non subfield. doing so, organize geographers' analysis prisons into nine conceptual categories based on journal's areas geographical exploration:...

Suburbs have long been glossed over by critical urbanists for being culturally, even if not spatially, less than urban. In Los Angeles, it is the San Fernando Valley that has received such treatment as scholars tended toward metropolitan basin. this article, I aim to help re-center a complex and conflictual cultural landscape through an autoethnographic exploration of four moments urban restructuring in Panorama City neighborhood. provide personal account how succession events – 1992 LA...

Prisoners in the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) coordinate to circumvent full racial housing integration, revealing how “race” adherence “racial code” is used as an organizing concept carceral settings that distinct from conceptualizations race politics identity within free society. In addition providing a review literature on complexity prison racialization, we base our discussion racialization code combined experience formerly racialized...

Putting research and reflection on prison experience into conversation with the subfields of carceral health geography, we discuss “somatic condition” as a viseral, bodily effect prisonization. In doing so, call for increased reliance data derived from somatic well autoethnographic insight imprisonment. More broadly, argue, an embrace used to tell story marginalization captivity experienced in across continuum can help advance discipline geography theoretically, methodologically, terms...

While big spatial data is certainly useful as a means of getting to know place, get closer actually understanding the rigorous and sometimes slow process conducting on‐the‐ground ethnographic fieldwork cannot be replaced, no matter admittedly seductive size, speed, simplicity offered by data. In this article, I caution against overreliance on Google Street View (GSV) municipal call‐for‐service, or 311, when assessing neighborhood character research visual disorder. Visual such GSV 311 calls...

Abstract For three decades graffiti writers have marked the Olympic Festival freeway murals painted in celebration of 1984 Games Los Angeles (LA). These high‐profile murals, which once symbolized LA's status as ‘Mural Capital World', became palimpsests on their monikers, perhaps unwittingly contributing to eventual destruction. Local government, muralists and residents bemoaned murals' slow death, though not been able identify or understand motives for such vandalism, interpreting it...

Abstract Gangs are geographically oriented social entities as evidenced by the display of cardinal points in their graffiti, use neighborhood namesakes, a focus on territoriality raison d'être, well way they policed and legally cordoned. Despite gang members' real imagined penchant for transgressive place‐making demarcation, it has been sociologists criminologists, not geographers, who have produced lion's share spatially nuanced research gangs. In this article, I provide review scientific...