“Humanistic” City in the Age of “Capitalocene”

Jon, Ihnji; Guma, Prince; Simone, AbdouMaliq

doi:10.1080/24694452.2023.2239893

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“…The case of the GC accords with the Polanyian thesis that double movement proceeds through a politically mediated negotiation between structure and agency, at times speeding up market expansion and at other times slowing it down. However, the very contingency that spatial materiality harbors in a specific time and place provides an active medium capable of influencing the structure-agency relationship in new and unpredictable ways (Jon et al, 2023). Some residents have expressed opposition to the project due to the proposed building's physically overwhelming character, confounding the planners' rationale that "green" features (energy efficiency, passive house technologies) work better in aggregated form-a rational that is, in fact, bounded by funding conditions.…”

Section: Green Gentrification As Sites Of Polanyian Geographiesmentioning

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Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach

Jon

2024

Environ Plan A

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Spotlighting a “green building” project in Chicago (East Garfield Park), this paper explores the various cultural, geographical, and topological factors that serve to pluralize land commodification pathways. Building on the scholarship on rent capture, I re-assemble the politics of green gentrification in East Garfield Park in order to lay bare the dynamic interactions between structure (e.g. financialization of urban space), agency (e.g. expression of needs, purposes, interests), and spatial materiality (e.g. landscapes of built environment). My approach draws on Polanyian geographies, focusing in particular on plural social agencies, the impact of spatial infrastructural configurations on local politics, and the role of narrative/script-making in land development. The resulting conversation entails thicker criticism of municipal planning practices that fail to challenge the foundational assumptions of land market and property economy. Moreover, a number of implications arise from the performative political possibilities of spatial infrastructure: while broader economic structures may constrain the agency of diverse actants, spatial landscapes can nevertheless prove enabling for transformative value politics, with competing narratives on “what is the best use for the land” defying a singular ontology of land as “real-estate-land.”

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Section: Green Gentrification As Sites Of Polanyian Geographiesmentioning

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Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach

Jon

2024

Environ Plan A

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“…For them, to inhabit the city is to inhabit a thickening of heterogeneous and provisional intersections and webs of urban life through lived experiences, strategies, practices, and trajectories. These processes often incorporate sociogenic philosophies and grounded community work and networks (Jon et al, 2023), drawing us to ordinary, heterogeneous, and diverse assemblages and forms of organizing beyond exclusive, neoliberal, and market-oriented interventions.…”

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Displacement, Out-of-placeness, and urban research in the south: An experiential perspective

Guma

2023

Dialogues in Urban Research

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Interdisciplinary engagements encounter a significant challenge in surmounting defensive barriers within conventional urban research. This emphasizes the necessity of creating space for comprehensive dialogs to tackle pivotal issues related to social justice in urban practice and academia. Urban research in the global south mandates a specific perspective that extends beyond the common oversight and veiling of specific viewpoints and encounters. Black geographies offers a language that acknowledges experiential, ingrained, and incarnate realities, contexts, and expressions of urbanization that surpass materiality. By extension, and as Bloch and Meyer argue, it expands the scope of contemplation to contemporary themes such as displacement.

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“Humanistic” City in the Age of “Capitalocene”

Cited by 2 publications

References 62 publications

Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach

Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach

Displacement, Out-of-placeness, and urban research in the south: An experiential perspective

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