Securing the urban core: policing poverty and migration in the neoliberal city

Zuberi, Dan; Taylor, Ariel

doi:10.4337/9781785360497.00016

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“…From 1997 to 2004, much attention was directed at the concentration of racialized poor (figured as foreigner/ immigrant) on behalf of local authorities-from the United Way, the Toronto Board of Trade, and the City of Toronto (Saberi 2017). The death of Jane Creba, a 15-year-old girl, shopping near the commercial intersection of Yonge and Dundas in December 2005 further propelled a rhetoric of criminalization in communities otherwise stateabandoned with a $51 million-dollar investment, intended to address gun/gang-related crime via added police surveillance (Zuberi and Taylor 2017). The heightened police presence in such communities marked the area (and people within) as primed for erasure and development (Saberi 2017).…”

Section: Spatial and Political Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing in the Shadow of Event Urbanism: Newcomer Youth, Neighborhood Change, and TO2015

Lisio¹,

Yerashotis

Fusco

2019

Int J Sociol Leis

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There has been recent academic attention focused on youth geographies. This literature has worked to emphasize youth experiences in urban life. Concomitantly, there has been a bourgeoning body of research directed at the evaluation of the sport mega-event as a catalyst of urban-spatial reform that has questioned the role of sport in the design of socially-equitable and environmentally-sustainable cities. In this paper, we examine the intersection between geographies of youth and the sport mega-event. Specifically, through a qualitative document analysis of relevant sport mega-event documentation, we compare and contrast written material with a thematic analysis of qualitative data collected with a small sample of newcomer youth in Toronto, Canada. Ultimately, we aim to explore the manner in which event-linked development priorities (and associated ideologies) manifest transnational (elite) representations of space through sport, and in turn, reconstruct urbanspatial fantasies of citizenship in the supposed diverse and inclusive Bhostĉ ontext. Our qualitative data demonstrate the extent to which the everyday places of newcomer youth, so filled with their own hope for the future, are most readily experienced as a perpetual negotiation between strategic exclusion and repressive inclusion-or the future otherwise envisioned for them.

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Section: Spatial and Political Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%