Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology

Liévanos, Raoul S.; Wilder, Elisabeth; Richter, Lauren; Carrera, Jennifer S.; Mascarenhas, Michael

doi:10.1080/23251042.2021.1902665

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“…Communities of color are torn apart to make way for white wealth, which is not news for community members or scholars. Still, environmental sociology is dominated by white perspectives and needs to make way for theoretical frames that center the importance of racism in environmental transformation (Liévanos et al, 2021;Mascarenhas et al, 2017). This article advances a novel theoretical approach to metabolism, a core concept in environmental sociology, through integrating environmental racism with political ecological concepts of the hydrosocial cycle and embodied metabolism in order to offer a grounded interpretation of metabolism.…”

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Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Carrera

2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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Detroit is in the midst of a contemporary urban renewal project that is being carried out through speculative investment and green gentrification.  Unlike the active infrastructural violence of the past that was implemented by building freeways through neighborhoods, the displacement of residents is happening through discursive and political means that leave residents with few options for remaining in the city.  In this paper, I explore how resource management, particularly water and wastewater infrastructure, has been used to degrade the political efficacy of Detroit residents.   Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis of news articles and government reports, I argue that in recent years the city of Detroit has developed a wasting economy.  This political-economic-environmental structure relies on the coupling of deconstructive and constructive processes that promote the withering of citizenship in order to make way for radical transformation in the use of the cityscape.

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Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Carrera

2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…I conclude the article with a discussion of its implications for future research. I outline how the CRUES approach aids in "environmentalizing" urban sociology in a manner that responds to calls for urban (Dantzler, Korver-Glenn, and Howell 2022) and environmental (Liévanos et al 2021) sociologists to center critical perspectives on race and racism. I also discuss how this article can inform scholarship on the conjoint constitution of race and environment in discriminatory mortgage risk assessments within and beyond the HOLC.…”

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Racialized Hazardous Space: A Critical Race Urban-Environmental Sociology of Residential Security in the Depression Era

Liévanos

2023

City & Community

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This article advances a novel “critical race urban-environmental sociology” (CRUES) approach that synthesizes Marxist and critical race theory to focus on the “production of racialized hazardous space” and “residential security” during the Great Depression in the U.S. It applies the CRUES lens to the work of Frederick M. Babcock, the economist who disseminated authoritative and racially discriminatory statements on residential security and neighborhood appraisals before and during his tenure at the Federal Housing Administration. The article shows how Babcock paralleled and intersected with strands of classic urban ecology to conflate racially segregated and environmentally hazardous neighborhoods and naturalize their devalued status. Using the CRUES lens, the article also frames the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) worst neighborhood rating in its 1930s Residential Security Surveys as racialized hazardous space, and advances a conceptual model for future research on how environmental hazards, racialized social “threats,” and other sociospatial factors conditioned HOLC hazardous grade assignments.

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‘We Need Communities of Color’: How Coalitions Can Move from Climate Action to Climate Justice

Lorenzen

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2023

Soc Just Res

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Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Racialized Hazardous Space: A Critical Race Urban-Environmental Sociology of Residential Security in the Depression Era

‘We Need Communities of Color’: How Coalitions Can Move from Climate Action to Climate Justice

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