Urban geography II

Derickson, Kate Driscoll

doi:10.1177/0309132515624315

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“…Taken collectively these books call for more research that connects the multiple spaces of the city into a critical geography of charitable food access, exploring the ways in which the charitable industrial complex is racialized, classed, gendered, and spatialized. An important theme in these works in particular and critical food scholarship in general is how food access is spatialized, particularly in regards to urban space when decades of racist urban policy have created distinct foodscapes in BIPOC communities (Shabazz, 2017; McKittrick, 2011; Reese, 2019; Derickson, 2017). While some of this work has certainly been done (see, e.g.…”

Section: Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime

Lohnes

Pine

2023

Human Geography

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This review explores the production and management of hunger under capitalism through the work of four scholars’ embeddedness with expanding feeding lines in rich but unequal countries of the Global North. We engage with their methodologies, placing the material and discursive infrastructures undergirding the explosion of charitable food networks within the rich literature on food and hunger in geography. Bringing Food Bank Nations, Feeding the Crisis, Feeding the Other, and A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People in conversation reveals the critical function that charitable food assistance plays in revaluing food waste on behalf of the corporate food regime and disciplining people navigating precarious life in urban spaces. We also highlight the possibilities that the fraught politics of the feeding line afford to scholar activists and activist scholars advancing movements for food justice, food sovereignty, and the right to food.

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Section: Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime

Lohnes

Pine

2023

Human Geography

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“…Zimmerman’s acquittal was premised on Florida’s so‐called “Stand Your Ground” law (Catalfamo 2007), which enshrines a notional right to not retreat from a felt threat. Crucially such laws effectively restrict “Black movement in public space” (Bonds 2014, cited in Derickson 2017:231), potentially allowing people who feel they are under threat from the presence of Black passersby to fire without consequence (Bledsoe 2021; Butz et al. 2015).…”

Section: Black Lives Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such laws empower “everyday citizens to act upon their unquestioned racism with violent impunity”. Here the “mere presence of a racialised body can constitute a perceived threat that can justify the use of lethal force” (Derickson 2017:231). The right to move by car—whatever the cost—mirrors and complements the right to stand your ground—whatever the cost.…”

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Whose Streets? Roadway Protests and Weaponised Automobility

Savitzky

Cidell

2022

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The article examines the role of automobility in US‐based anti‐racism demonstrations and counter‐demonstrations. We contrast the spatial strategies of highway occupations by racial justice activists, with so‐called “weaponised car” attacks by the American far right. Analysing online memes and anti‐protest legislation, the article explores under‐acknowledged links between “automobile supremacy”—the structure of motorists' privilege as embedded in law, the built environment and the popular imaginary—and the patterns of racial stratification often termed “white supremacy”. We document three ways in which automobility has been enlisted as means of violence against protestors and against wider Black communities in the US: through the use of vehicles, right‐of‐way conventions, and roadways as weapons. The article demonstrates how the imperative to make way for the motorist has long provided cover for racial injustice.

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“…Geographical work on Blackness, class, and geography has examined myriad topics, including the carceral effects of urban housing; infrastructural underdevelopment of rural Black communities; attempts to politically organise the Black lumpenproletariat; the motivations for Martin Luther King's conceptualisation of the "Beloved Community"; the role of anti-Black environmental racism in the Flint water crisis; the inherently anti-Black nature of urban policing; and the intersections of anti-Blackness, securitisation, and capitalism in our present moment, among many others (Derickson, 2017;Inwood, 2009;Jefferson, 2018;Pulido, 2016;Scott, 2017;Shabazz, 2015;Tyner, 2006). In this section, I focus specifically on the works of Clyde Woods, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Bobby Wilson. I have chosen to engage these scholars in depth because their works evidence perhaps the most well-known and prolific attempts at tying together Blackness, class, and geography.…”

Section: Black Geographies Class and Racementioning

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The primacy of anti‐blackness

Bledsoe

2019

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This paper contributes to conversations in Black Geographies by reflecting on the nature of anti-Black oppression. Much work within Black Geographies has (understandably and importantly) drawn out the ways in which race and class intersect with one another. This paper acknowledges the necessity of such an approach yet argues that scholars must be careful not to conflate anti-Black oppression with class-based oppression, as anti-Blackness is its own logic of oppression that eclipses class. I draw on three 20th-century examples of the displacement of middle-class Black communities in the USA to highlight how the logic of anti-Blackness leads to the spatial marginalisation of Blackness, regardless of class status. Specifically, I examine how 20th century infrastructure building entailed the routine destruction of Black middle-class neighbourhoods and commercial districts, a process made possible through the assumed a-spatiality of Black populations. I argue that while race and class do frequently intersect, examples such as those in this paper highlight the need to analyse Blackness ontologically. A scholarly commitment to rigour and political commitment to social justice demand that Black Geographies attend to the logics that structure anti-Blackness, as this is an important step toward acknowledging the struggles of all sections of the African Diaspora. K E Y W O R D S anti-Blackness, Black Geographies, class, displacement, infrastructure 1 | INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, the subfield of Black Geographies has become an increasingly important focal point for the wider discipline of Geography. Some of the most salient texts within the subfield have offered thorough interrogations of the intersections of Blackness and class by examining how anti-Blackness and the dictates of capitalism work together to structurally oppress working-class and un(der)employed Blacks. Nonetheless, there is a need for more geographical work that acknowledges how anti-Blacknessas a societal logic which assumes the inhumanity and thus spatial illegitimacy of Black populationsremains the purview of, and has concrete effects for, Black populations, regardless of their class status. As I show, approaching anti-Blackness as a logic applying to Black populations generally both identifies a central, structuring principle of society and helps add analytical clarity to past and present spatial formations. This paper first engages the work of Clyde Woods, Bobby Wilson, and Ruth Gilmore to reflect on how prominent conversations within Black Geographies explicate linkages between anti-Black racism and class struggle. Next, I discuss theories that unpack anti-Blackness as an underlying societal logic which has ontological and concrete spatial ramifications. I then turn to an examination of 20th-century displacements of Black middle-class communities to reflect on the ways in which anti-Blackness eclipses class position. Specifically, I examine displacements due to infrastructurea phenomenon

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Urban geography II

Cited by 91 publications

References 109 publications

Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime

Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime

Whose Streets? Roadway Protests and Weaponised Automobility

The primacy of anti‐blackness

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