Social Justice and the City

Nik Heynen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367663551
• eBook ISBN: 9780429837227
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Geography
• Index: History

This special collection aims to offer insight into the state of geography on questions of social justice and urban life. While using social justice and the city as our starting point may signal inspiration from Harvey's (1973) book of the same name, the task of examining the emergence of this concept has revealed the deep influence of grassroots urban uprisings of the late 1960s, earlier and contemporary meditations on our urban worlds (Jacobs, 1961, 1969; Lefebvre, 1974; Massey and Catalano, 1978) as well as its enduring significance built upon by many others for years to come. Laws (1994) noted how geographers came to locate social justice struggles in the city through research that examined the ways in which material conditions contributed to poverty and racial and gender inequity, as well as how emergent social movements organized to reshape urban spaces across diverse engagements including the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests, feminist and LGBTQ activism, the American Indian Movement, and disability access.

This book originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Introduction: The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City
• 1 Geography and the Priority of Injustice
• 2 Against the Evils of Democracy: Fighting Forced Disappearance and Neoliberal Terror in Mexico
• 3 Locating the Social in Social Justice
• 4 Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put
• 5 Urban Movements and the Genealogy of Urban Rights Discourses: The Case of Urban Protesters against Redevelopment and Displacement in Seoul, South Korea
• 6 Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”
• 7 The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice
• 8 From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People
• 9 Police Torture in Chicago: Theorizing Violence and Social Justice in a Racialized City
• 10 The Uneven Geographies of America’s Hidden Rape Crisis: A District-Level Analysis of Underpolicing in St. Louis
• 11 Building Relationships within Difference: An Anarcha-Feminist Approach to the Micropolitics of Solidarity
• 12 Praxis in the City: Care and (Re)Injury in Belfast and Orumiyeh
• 13 Without Space: The Politics of Precarity and Dispossession in Postsocialist Bucharest
• 14 Neoliberalizing Social Justice in Infrastructure Revitalization Planning: Analyzing Toronto’s More Moss Park Project in Its Early Stages
• 15 Safe Cities and Queer Spaces: The Urban Politics of Radical LGBT Activism
• 16 Disciplining Deserving Subjects through Social Assistance: Migration and the Diversification of Precarity in Singapore
• 17 Occupy Hong Kong? Gweilo Citizenship and Social Justice
• 18 Land Justice as a Historical Diagnostic: Thinking with Detroit
• 19 Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. West: Indigenous and Mexican American Struggles for Social Justice
• 20 The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in Baltimore
• 21 “This Port Is Killing People”: Sustainability without Justice in the Neo-Keynesian Green City
• 22 “Wagering Life” in the Petro-City: Embodied Ecologies of Oil Flow, Capitalism, and Justice in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
• 23 Decolonizing Urban Political Ecologies: The Production of Nature in Settler Colonial Cities
• 24 Datafying Disaster: Institutional Framings of Data Production Following Superstorm Sandy
• 25 Cultivating (a) Sustainability Capital: Urban Agriculture, Ecogentrification, and the Uneven Valorization of Social Reproduction
• 26 From “Rust Belt” to “Fresh Coast”: Remaking the City through Food Justice and Urban Agriculture
• Index