- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Housing Market and Economics
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Rural development and sustainability
- Race, History, and American Society
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Global Security and Public Health
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
University of Arizona
2019-2023
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...
Manufactured housing (MH) communities have emerged as a high-profile and lucrative asset class. Despite this, it is costly or impossible to get loans buy homes in most mobile home parks. This article explores this ostensible contradiction—that whereas MH parks are desirable liquid assets, the individual that compose them not. We explore implications of contradiction for justice well financial environmental vulnerability. argue marginality U.S. markets rooted privileging real property above...
Gentrification is a security project. Though this claim not new, existing scholarship on contemporary urban (in)security in the Global North, especially context of gentrification, has often struggled with particular problem: how to account for decidedly ambivalent character securitization. Familiar frameworks like ‘revanchism’ and ‘fear crime’ have proven insufficient alone explain seemingly paradoxical investment insecurity that animates paradigm. In article, I consider psychoanalytic...
Manufactured housing (MH) communities have emerged as a high-profile and lucrative asset class. Despite this, it is costly or impossible to get loans buy homes in most mobile home parks. This article explores this ostensible contradiction—that whereas MH parks are desirable liquid assets, the individual that compose them not. We explore implications of contradiction for justice well financial environmental vulnerability. argue marginality U.S. markets rooted privileging real property above...
In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that is process functions through diverse rearticulations people's embodied capacity to make place, only some which take the form physical or social dislocation. Our intervention was intended reignite this already existing argument by drawing attention embodied, affective, and emotional dimensions with critical consideration role race/racism plays within today. We argue such...