The city in the age of Trumpism: From sanctuary to abolition

Roy, Ananya

doi:10.1177/0263775819830969

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“…Research on abolitionism and movements to defund the police have been increasing in research years [125][126][127][128][129], bringing greater awareness to systemic issues of racism, classism, and gender-based discrimination in policing [130][131][132], while challenging dominant ideas that traffic safety is impossible without the police [133]. For example, a significant body of literature documents how police traffic stops enforce racial profiling and disproportionately target people of color and low-income commuters [134][135][136][137], including cyclists [138,139].…”

Section: Discussion and Areas For Future Researchmentioning

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Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities

Soliz

2021

Sustainability

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As policy makers grapple with rapid motorization processes, cycling facilities are gaining new urgency, offering non-polluting and affordable alternatives to automobility. At the same time, urban sustainability paradigms tend to focus on purely technical solutions to transportation challenges, leaving questions of history and social power aside. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Aguascalientes Mexico, this article contributes to the transportation and mobility justice literature by focusing on the work of social movements in confronting a variety of challenges in the provision of active-transportation services. First, this research explores how social movements express and negotiate transportation-justice concerns to government and planning authorities. Next, I build on the concept of insurgent citizenship to highlight the processes through which residents contest ongoing injustices and formulate alternatives for building inclusive cities. From the creation of makeshift cycling lanes in underserved urban areas to the search for socially just alternative to policing, social movements are forging new pathways to re-envision sustainable transportation systems. These insurgent forms of citymaking—understood here as insurgent mobilities—underscore the creative role of citizens in producing the city as well as the enormous amount of care work involved in these processes.

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Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities

Soliz

2021

Sustainability

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“…This call continues to breach what at times feels like the gap between agrarian political ecology and urban environmental justice by highlighting the key role that white supremacy plays in shaping nature–society relations. While this symposium in Antipode is the first collective effort to build upon this idea of abolition ecology, the notion has already received other commentary, expansion and refinement, working to establish more attention to the logics of racialisation shaping nature–society relations and political ecology literatures, as opposed to contextual backdrop (Conroy 2019; Davies 2019; Derickson 2018; Goodling 2019; Loftus 2019; McCreary and Milligan 2018; Pulido and De Lara 2018; Ramírez 2020; Roy 2019; Simpson and Bagelman 2018; Wright 2019).…”

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On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place”

2020

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This introduction calls for political ecology to systematically engage with the ways that white supremacy shapes human relationships with land through entangled processes of settler colonialism, empire and racial capitalism. To develop the analytic of abolition ecology, we begin with the articulation of W.E.B. Du Bois' abolition democracy together with Ruth Wilson Gilmore's spatially attuned analytic of abolition geography. Rather than define communities by the violence they suffer, abolition ecologies call for attention to radical place-making and the land, air and water based environments within which places are made. To that end, we suggest that an abolition ecology demands attention to the ways that coalitional land-based politics dismantle oppressive institutions and to the promise of abolition, which Gilmore describes as making "freedom as a place". Resumen: Esta introducci on hace una llamada a la ecolog ıa-pol ıtica para que critique sistem aticamente las formas en que la supremac ıa blanca orienta a las relaciones entre lose seres humanos y la tierra a trav es de los procesos de colonialismo, imperialismo y capitalismo racial. Para desarrollar el concepto de la ecolog ıa abolicionista, comenzamos articulando la propuesta de democracia de la abolici on de W.E.B. Du Bois de con el concepto de Ruth Wilson Gilmore de la geograf ıa de abolici on con su anal ıtica atinado a lo espacial. En vez de definir a comunidades por la violencia que sufren, la ecolog ıa abolicionista requiere atenci on a hacer-lugares radicales y sobre los entornos basados en tierra, aire, y agua en que se hacen los lugares. Con ese fin, sugerimos que una ecolog ıa abolicionista exige an alisis de las formas en que una pol ıtica coalicional basada en la tierra desmantela las instituciones opresivas y la promesa de la abolici on, que Gilmore relata como hacer "la libertad como un lugar".

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“…This, we argue, can be achieved by making political choices that oppose establishing relationships of dependency in the name of hospitality and by expanding the spatial and material possibilities of urban citizenship. Framing urban citizenship beyond an act of scalar politics of sovereignty towards enacting mobile commons would also require a radical shift in knowledge and epistemologies mobilized (Roy 2019). Raising our situated knowledges and engaged militant research at the intersection of mobility justice and climate justice to the occasion is therefore but one way to contribute to this radical shift.…”

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Of (not) being neighbors: cities, citizens and climate change in an age of migrations

Turhan

Armiero

2019

Mobilities

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Borders are back with a vengeance. From the Americas to the Mediterranean, borders cut through the increasingly integrated world in a way that exposes the inside-outside logic of contemporary capitalism. All this happens on a backdrop where cities are becoming the key sites of contestation since borders and levees do not suffice to keep them intact. Cities are also increasingly becoming the focus of international efforts to deal with climate change and migration, where nationstates are falling short. By synthesizing the possibilities of urban belonging and right-to-the-world, we argue that new urban imaginaries are at the frontline of the mobilities debate today. Consequently, we argue for a cross-pollination of mobility justice and climate justice as urban citizenship. The main thrust of our argument is that there are viable alternatives to the isolationist fortress nation model, which can bring a new dimension to debates concerning climate change and migration. Fearless cities are but one example of these emerging alternatives. By focusing on the opportunities for a radical response to climate change and migration, we suggest that cities can respond to the burning mobility challenges of our times with a just, grounded and egalitarian urban citizenship framed as mobile commons.

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The city in the age of Trumpism: From sanctuary to abolition

Cited by 43 publications

References 40 publications

Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities

Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities

On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place”

Of (not) being neighbors: cities, citizens and climate change in an age of migrations

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