A century of Grace; restorative spatial justice, pedagogy, and beloved community in twenty-first century Detroit

Baker, Rachael

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2018.1443909

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“…Such a framework demonstrates just how potentially emancipatory alternatives to land use could be. Perhaps such alternatives may, as Baker () suggests, facilitate a critical reimagining of the ways in which people interact with urban property, and harness the “potential for equitable and justice‐based outcomes to come of the evolution of the property system, perhaps even through its dissolution” (p. 448).…”

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Geographies of land use: Planning, property, and law

Wideman¹,

Lombardo

2019

Geography Compass

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In this article, we draw attention to the geographies of “land use,” which to date have been underexamined and undertheorized within urban geographical literature. To do so, we review insights from a growing set of literature in geography, urban planning, law, and socio‐legal studies, among others, to outline how urban space is shaped through the relationships between land use, planning, property, and law. We first look at the relationships between land‐use planning and power relations in place. We go on to focus on the law, and the ways in which it structures and controls land use, property, and social activities in the city. We conclude by reviewing how law and legal concepts can serve as instruments of resistance and a source of alternate futures in urban spaces. In sum, we argue that a deeper interrogation of land use, and its relationships to planning, property, and law, can lead to a better understanding of how liberal‐democratic cities operate, and offer tools for resisting opaque and legalistic land‐use planning programs.

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Geographies of land use: Planning, property, and law

Wideman¹,

Lombardo

2019

Geography Compass

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“…As geographers, we must engage with these biographies in order to reveal the absence of the individual, or the individual’s complexity, when those biographies manifest themselves in landscapes. I bring similar questions to Robeson’s biography as Baker’s questions: “what can biographical investigation teach us about feminist knowledge production relating to the production of space” and “what does feminist biography offer epistemologically to our understandings of space?” (2018, p. 434). How might the Black geographies of Robeson and his philosophical grounding in African American experience and Pan‐African thought navigate processes of memorialisation?…”

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The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape

Rhodes

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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Memorialisation of specific individuals necessitates processes of remembering and forgetting, memory work, and obfuscation. The African American Paul Robeson is considered an "honorary Welshman" and a "Welsh achiever." How could Robeson, erased from the history books in his own country, be appropriated by popular vote as a Welsh national hero? This paper questions how Robeson's philosophies, evident in his arts and actions, were memorialised into those of a Welsh hero through the theoretical lens of absent presence and geographies of biography. I explore this relationship between Wales and Robeson further to understand his influence and commemorative presence in Wales via the material memorial landscape of Robeson and how he is represented within broader Welsh memorialisation and nationalism. Through the discourse of the memorial landscapes of Wales, elements of his philosophy may be over-or under-represented.For example, he connected with the strong socialist history in Wales, but the complexity of Robeson's philosophical framework remains absent. Why were only some of his philosophical beliefs transmitted into Welsh society and the memorial landscape? This paper reveals both the presence and absence of Paul Robeson's complex biography in the material memorial landscape in Wales. As a case study on the inclusion of (auto)biographical knowledge in the context of complex geographies and landscapes, this work frames biographical inclusion and exclusion as vital geographic concerns, particularly in the precarious Black geographies of Paul Robeson in Wales. In so doing, it further reifies the indelible connections between geography, biography, and the socio-political contexts from which memorial landscapes emerge.

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“…The geographies of Southeast Michigan are a physical manifestation of racial capitalism (Robinson, 2000). Detroit is often a city thought left behind, but in its struggles and transformations, it has remained a space of radical experimentation across the political spectrum (Akers, 2015;Baker, 2018;Hackworth, 2016;Safransky, 2017). Our work is a collective effort between academics and organizers focused on cities where LIC activity has grown since 2008.…”

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Liquid Tenancy: "Post-crisis" economies of displacement, community organizing, and new forms of resistance

Akers¹,

Seymour²,

Butler³

et al. 2019

RHJ

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What has emerged in the United States in the wake of the financial crisis is a system of liquid tenancy. The deployment of contractual arrangements by speculative owners, backed by the threat of violence from the state through eviction, that extracts profits from low-income and racialized communities while further destabilizing areas of long-term disinvestment. This paper examines the emergence of economies of displacement and dispossession over the past decade and two activist movements that emerged in response. We are particularly interested in the liminal space of liquidity and housing stability, the ways in which the financialization of housing has destabilized tenancy in the wake of the crisis, and the conceptions of space and rights to place in resistance movements. To understand this, we focus on the geography of contemporary speculative property ownership, the increasingly common use of exploitative instruments such as land contract and lease to own agreements, and the resulting increase in evictions. We then turn to two organizations responding to this instability at different scales with contrasting models and politics that converge around the right to remain in place. This paper is a collective effort between academics working directly with the ACORN Home Savers Campaign and Detroit Eviction Defense.

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A century of Grace; restorative spatial justice, pedagogy, and beloved community in twenty-first century Detroit

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Geographies of land use: Planning, property, and law

Geographies of land use: Planning, property, and law

The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape

Liquid Tenancy: "Post-crisis" economies of displacement, community organizing, and new forms of resistance

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