Take the houses back/take the land back: Black and Indigenous urban futures in Oakland

Ramírez, Margaret Marietta

doi:10.1080/02723638.2020.1736440

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“…The last decade has taught us that centering Black, brown, and indigenous housing struggles is core to understanding techniques of economic subordination through housing and financial markets. This attention to struggle brings into the frame ‘people who have deep and complex bonds with place, with the land they live upon’ (Ramírez, 2020: 1), bonds that at once exceed and are undermined by financialization.…”

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“…I grew up here. I deserve to live in Oakland’ (King, quoted in Ramírez, 2020: 1). In expressing this sense of place, Moms 4 Housing lay ‘demands on spatial arrangements’, and ‘contest, respatialize, and inhabit the uninhabitable’, producing ‘new forms of life that assert new geographic formulations’ (McKittrick, 2006: 142–143).…”

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Racialized geographies of housing financialization

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Raymond

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing financialization rarely addresses the inextricable relationship between racism and capitalism. Racial division and subordination have always been necessary to producing value in real estate; financialization materially reproduces racial capitalism by reconfiguring the death-dealing abstraction of racism from systems of individual bias and racialized bodies into automated systems. Rather than reducing racially subordinated communities to experiences of oppression and domination, producing life-giving geographies of housing requires bringing collective resistance for emancipatory social change into the analytic frame.

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Racialized geographies of housing financialization

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Raymond

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…We propose a constructive dialogue that takes into account Black and Native solidarities, and the lived experience of those who are both Black and Native (Cordis 2019; Dorries et al. 2019; King 2019; Mays 2018; McCreary and Milligan 2021; Mollett 2021; Odim and Vasudevan forthcoming; Palmer 2020; Ramírez 2020). We see this in concert with efforts to build what Oswin (2020) has outlined as an “other” geography (Curley and Smith 2020; Eaves 2020; Faria and Mollett 2020).…”

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Decolonisation is a Political Project: Overcoming Impasses between Indigenous Sovereignty and Abolition

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In this article we seek to intervene in conversations that frame Black abolition and decolonisation as antagonistic political projects. We respond to Garba and Sorentino’s (2020) “Slavery is a metaphor”, which critiques Tuck and Yang (2012; “Decolonization is not a metaphor”) and decolonisation. Our concern is that scholarship in this vein denies Indigenous sovereignty and futurity while unnecessarily characterising decolonisation as antiblack. We contend that ontological, epistemological, and disciplinary traps lead to this problem: reductions, conflations, and taking settler‐enslavers’ word as truth. We suggest that critiques of settler colonial studies shouldn’t be confused with the aims of Indigenous decolonisation, where the former is largely driven by white scholarship and the latter is an Indigenous‐led project rooted in Indigenous epistemologies. We focus on questions of land and sovereignty, gesturing toward framings that are inclusive of Black, Native, and immigrant communities.

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“…It short, it highlights how practices that affirm relationality can be enlisted to reject and remake the racist social relations upon which the practices of racial planning are built. There are countless examples of ways Black and Indigenous communities are already enacting alternatives through organizing and resistance (Ramírez, 2020). Myre’s Indian Act is just one of many examples how individuals and communities challenge and refuse the racist and sexist logics of colonialism while also demonstrating how decolonial futures can be enacted in the present.…”

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What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging

Dorries

2022

Environ Plan D

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What is planning without property? This question was recently posed to me following a conference presentation. In this paper, I argue that taking this question seriously reveals unchallenged assumptions about the relationship between planning and property. Focusing on Canada as a settler colonial liberal democracy, I respond to this question by looking at the Indian Act which has supported colonial dispossession and assimilation in Canada for almost 200 years and rely on Brenna Bhandar’s conceptualization of “racial regimes of property” as a means of examining how racial subjects and private property are co-produced. I then look to the practices reflected in the creation of Nadia Myre's artwork Indian Act to show how Indigenous epistemologies can aid in the conceptualization of planning without property. I argue that planning without property would be an approach to planning that would be focused on identifying, making, and strengthening the human and more-than-human relationships the flourishing of life requires. Thus, planning without property would support practices of being and belonging rather than practices of exclusion and domination.

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Take the houses back/take the land back: Black and Indigenous urban futures in Oakland

Cited by 54 publications

References 25 publications

Racialized geographies of housing financialization

Racialized geographies of housing financialization

Decolonisation is a Political Project: Overcoming Impasses between Indigenous Sovereignty and Abolition

What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging

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