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ABCn.d.Resource Guide: Engaging with Indigenous ContentABCQuick linkAccessible Article https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408Australia, Aboriginality
Agyeman, Julian2012Just sustainabilities.Blog, Julian AgyemanReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://julianagyeman.com/2012/09/21/just-sustainabilities/Agyeman lays out his framework for just sustainabilities (further developed in Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice). Challenging hegemonic “sustainability” discourse and advocating for more place-based, inclusive conceptions that champion social welfare.sustainability, just sustainabilities, inclusive environmentalism, ecological modernization, welfare
Agyeman, Julian and Kofi Boone2020Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation—Is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership?The ConversationReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://theconversation.com/land-loss-has-plagued-black-america-since-emancipation-is-it-time-to-look-again-at-black-commons-and-collective-ownership-140514Context to police brutality: fundamental inequity in wealth, land and power that has circumscribed black lives since the end of slavery, when the promised “40 acres and a mule” never came to pass. Discrimination effects who owns property, as well as land.
Expanding the black commons: Fundamental power of land ownership, shared. + Economic, cultural, and digital resources. Freedom farms, credit unions, co-ops.
United StatesAmerica, reparations, land, black commons, collective land ownership, freedom farms, homeownership, property, redlining, restrictive covenants.
Agyeman, Julian, Caitlin Matthews and Hannah Sobel2017Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social JusticeBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://julianagyeman.com/books/food-trucks-cultural-identity-and-social-justice/Using food trucks as a lens to explore the racialized political economies of changing foodscapes. Vending, criminalization, and gentrification.food, culture, social justice
Agyeman, Julian, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans2002Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and EquitySpace and PolityJournal ArticleAcademic WorkThe issue of environmental equity is inextricably tied to that of human equality at all scales. Exploring different traditions, approaches of environmental justiceinclusive environmentalism, environmental justice, just sustainabilities
Ajani, Ashia2020Making it Easier to Breathe.”Sierra MagReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/making-it-easier-breathe?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sierramag&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3ppgn7taJs9FuQuehdYJ_WOLIKOmInKr6NsgJjTJ4KwHiv4UEXFGtj-O4On Black environmentalism and defunding the police: “For many, the lived experience of being violently policed and not being protected from toxic pollution coincide.”
“As we move toward a transformative justice model of thinking, we are also going to have to think about land in new ways … What is our world going to look like once we finally return the large swaths of territory that was seized through violence back to the Cheyenne, the Mohawk, the Ohlone people, and countless other Indigenous groups? How are we going to heal the thousands of lives that have been impacted by terror? How are we working to undo our own complicated relationships to punishment?”
Inclusive environmentalism, police brutality, environmental justice, ethics of care, Indigenous land
Alexander, Michelle2010The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessThe New Press.Book/TextAcademic WorkAlexander argues that mass incarceration is a comprehensive and well-disguised system of racial control that functions remarkably similarly to Jim Crow. She holds that a racial caste system emerged in response to the Civil Rights Movement, and traces the impact of the War on Drugs.United StatesAmerica, mass incarceration, policing, racism, drug policy, Jim Crow
Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman2011Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and SustainabilityThe MIT PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://julianagyeman.com/books/cultivating-food-justice/Highlighting how race and class permeate the food system; how communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food.United StatesAmerica, food, food justice, environmental justice, racism, class, sustainability, public health
American Institute of Architectsn.d.50 Years After Whitney Young, JrQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.50yearsafterwhitneyyoung.org/introduction-aia-and-whitney-young
Andrews, Eve2020A River Runs Through It: Southern California’s coastal and mountainous regions face the same, fickle climate enemy.GristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/climate/san-diego-county-atmospheric-river-imperial-beach/San Diego, California facing climate change. Columbia University: the American West is suffering a climate-induced drought. Profiles of Imperial Beach, on US-Mexico border, and Native American reservation, La Jolla. Issue of sewerage flooding from Tijuana, and the working-class IB community getting sick in its wake.United StatesSan Diego, California, America, Tijuana, Mexico, US-Mexico border, climate change, coastal cities, Indigenous land
Angotti, Tom and Morse, Sylvia2017Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York CityTerreform Urban Research.Book/TextAcademic Work- Collection of writings on how zoning, land use and housing policies have influenced gentrification and displacement in NYC neighborhoods across Williamsburg, Harlem, and Chinatown.United StatesNew York City, America, zoning, urban planning, gentrification
Anthony, Thalia and Stephen Gray2020Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate.SBS NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/was-there-slavery-in-australia-yes-it-shouldn-t-even-be-up-for-debateLegal history of slavery in Australia, where Melanesian people were brought and enslaved to work in Queensland sugar plantations, and where First Nations Australians were forced into state-sanctioned labor.AustraliaAustralia, First Nations Australians, slavery
Architectural League NYn.d.Statement and Resources on Race and ArchitectureQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://archleague.org/the-architectural-leagues-statement-on-racial-justice/
Association of American Geographersn.d.tribute to Harold M. RoseQuick linkAcademic Workhttp://www.aag.org/cs/membership/tributes_memorials/mr/rose_harold
Bagley, Katherine2020Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the CoronavirusYale Environment 360Reading ListAccessible Articlehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/connecting-the-dots-between-environmental-injustice-and-the-coronavirusEJ scholar-advocate Sacoby Wilson on the ways that social and environmental inequality have contributed to the outsized impact of Covid-19 on low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
Studies show links between high levels of pollution and increased risk of death from Covid-19. Same communities lack a political voice (economic capital drives political capital). Also lack of advanced scientific work examining true costs.
United StatesAmerica, Detroit, Environmental justice, Covid-19
Bailey, Philip M. and Tessa Duvall2020Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers sayCourier JournalReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/05/lawyers-breonna-taylor-case-connected-gentrification-plan/5381352002/Connecting the murder of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police to a gentrification plan, as the city purchases a so-called “drug house” for a mere $1.United StatesLouisville, Kentucky, America, Breonna Taylor, police brutality, gentrification, community land trust
Baker, Mike and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Manny Fernandez and Michael LaForgia2020Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.The New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/28/us/i-cant-breathe-police-arrest.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-george-floyd&variant=show&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menuThe New York Times finds 70 cases over the past decade of American people dying in police custody after saying, “I cant breathe.”United StatesAmerica, police brutality, racism
Barry, Ellen20207 Lessons (And Warnings) From Those Who Marched With Dr. King.The New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/george-floyd-protests.htmlOrganizers who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on the George Floyd protests.United StatesAmerica, protest, racism, George Floyd, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Bennhold, Katrin and Melissa Eddy2020In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy is an Essential Part of Police Training.The New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/germany-police.htmlLearning from the overhauls of policing in Germany, after World War II. How cadets are taught shameful Nazi legacies, to prompt meaningful institutional reform.GermanyGermany, policing, institutional memory, reform
Berkeley Black Geographiesn.d.The Berkeley Black Geographies projectQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.theblackgeographic.com/berkeley-black-geographies
Bethea, Sally2020Above the Waterline: the convergence of the civil rights and environmental justice movements.Atlanta In Town PaperReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://atlantaintownpaper.com/2020/07/above-the-waterline-the-convergence-of-the-civil-rights-and-environmental-justice-movements/Brief history of environmental justice movement in the US, as it relates to civil rights. Sparked by protest over an illegal and toxic landfill in Warren County, North Carolina.United StatesWarren County, North Carolina, America, environmental justice, racism, protest
Bronin, Sara C.2020In fight for justice, zoning laws that exclude low-income people must be changedCourier JournalReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://eu.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2020/06/09/zoning-laws-exclude-poor-people-neighborhoods-must-change/3138316001/How zoning perpetuates structural inequities and preserves property values, although U.S. Supreme Court ruled “racial zoning” illegal in 1916 case, Buchanan v. Warley. How concept of orderliness becomes tool for exclusion.United StatesAmerica, zoning, urban planning
Brooks-LaSure, Allyn2020Your Confederacy is Choking my People.The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RightsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://civilrights.org/blog/your-confederacy-is-choking-my-people/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=confederacy&utm_content=blog&fbclid=IwAR1X6WEK66DPvU0x7wF-Aca7uYxdfelXj2V-eHs9-RgNWoNcD27xCxSRRkcTracing legacies of racial apartheid in the U.S., arguing that the confederacy cannot exist within a pluralistic America.United StatesAmerica, confederacy, monuments, racism, apartheid, protest
Brown, Aleen2020Inside Rikers: An Account of the Virus-Stricken Jail from a Man Who Managed to Get OutThe InterceptReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://theintercept.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-rikers-island-jail-nyc/The politics of Covid-19 release lists as the coronavirus sweeps New York City’s Rikers Island prison, where conditions render social distancing impossible.United StatesAmerica, New York City, Rikers Island, prisons, Covid-19
Butler, Tamika2020Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes.Bicycling MagazineReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32783551/cycling-talk-fight-racism/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflowTWBIOn race and cycling: Relationship between bike lanes and gentrification; marketing strategies which assume cisgender white maleness as the norm.United StatesAmerica, Los Angeles, cycling, urban planning, racism
Canadian Urban Instituten.d.How do we respond to anti-black racism in urbanist practices and conversations?Quick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.canurb.org/new-blog-1/2020/6/10/how-do-we-respond-to-anti-black-racism-in-urbanist-practices-and-conversationslinked panel moderated by placemaker Jay Pitter
Carmody, Rebecca2019The little-known story of when Perth banned Indigenous people from the city and suburbs.ABC NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-29/when-perth-banned-aboriginal-people-from-the-city/11818540History of Indigenous Ban in Perth, where Aboriginal populations were not allowed without a Native Pass from 1927-1954.AustraliaAustralia, Perth, zoning, segregation, First Nations Australians, racism
Carpenter, Zoe2020Will Covid-19 be a turning point in the fight against racial disparities in health care?The NationReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-19-racial-disparities-health/On the death of Jason Hargrove and racial disparities in health care across America.United StatesDetroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, America, Covid-19, racism, public health
Chapman, Isabelle and Drew Kann2020For some environmentalists, ‘I can’t breathe’ is about more than police brutality.CNNReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/environmental-racism-explainer-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2ptq-mjAFELpUMs9oxKh1YYu76oHD2kHcgRNKwlV-wYByxesjjPKfsEl8Connections between air pollution and police brutality--communities of color in the US are more likely to breathe air pollution, despite contributing less to it. Temporality: while some issues (ie police brutality) are more immediately obvious, air pollution contributes slowly to the same disproportionate deaths. Robert Bullard says that race is the most potent predictor of which communities are more polluted.United StatesAmerica, environmental justice, air pollution, public health, racism
Chayka, Kyle2020How the Coronavirus will reshape architectureThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architectureExploring how Covid-19 might impact architecture, as much of modernist design is a consequence of the fear of disease. Relationships between lockdown and domestic space; office space; city space. Tactical urbanism in NYC, London. The future of cities now a question of density.Covid-19, architecture, public health, tactical urbanism, density.
Choudhury, Bedatri D2019How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough SurvivedHyperallergicReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://hyperallergic.com/509397/decade-of-fire-bronx-documentary/Reviewing Decade of Fire, a 2019 documentary which tells the story of the South Bronx fires in New York City. The film “uncovers the ugly nexus of power that stood to gain by standing by and watching the area burn.” Operation Bootstrap, redlining, urban renewal. Profiling community organizations which rebuilt their borough.United StatesNew York, America, culture, community organizing, urban renewal, redlining, racism
Christ, Meehan2020What the Coronavirus Means for Climate ChangeThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.htmlExploring what the coronavirus crisis, despite tragedy, might mean for the climate crisis. “Humans are part of nature, not separate from it, and human activity that hurts the environment also hurts us.”Covid-19, climate change, nature
Coates, Ta-Nehisi2014The Case for ReparationsThe AtlanticReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/Developing a case for reparations by tracing the story of Clyde Ross, who grew up in a family of sharecroppers in Jim Crow Mississippi. Ross later joined the US Army and fought for America in World War II. Coates explores Ross’ mounting losses, on the grounds of his race: debt peonage, insufficient education, the terror of Klansmen. After the War, Ross experienced redlining and housing discrimination in North Lawndale, Chigago--Predatory agreements like contract buying. Neighborhood disinvestment prompted Ross to join the Contract Buyers League; “[They were no longer seeking the protection of the law. They were seeking reparations.”

History of reparations advocacy in the US--N’COBRA and HR 40. History of Reconstruction; how Roosevelt’s New Deal rested on the foundation of Jim Crow. White flight, active + institutional racism. Promises/pitfalls of affirmative action.

Defining reparations as “the full acceptance of our collective biography and its consequences … Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.” Important parallels between US and post-Holocaust Germany.
United StatesAmerica, Jim Crow, racism, reparations, contract buying, redlining
Coates, Ta-Nehisi2017My President Was BlackThe AtlanticReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on the Obama presidency and its (in)compalities with the hegemonic Black American experience--its enormous successes, and its excessive optimisms which laid an unexpected groundwork for Trumpism.United StatesAmerica, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, racism, culture
Colomina, Beatriz2018X-Ray ArchitectureLars Muller PublishersBook/TextAcademic WorkExplores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. Challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th Century was shaped by tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.architecture, public health, Covid-19
Columbia GSAPPn.d.Unlearning WhitenessQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site/
Crenshaw, Kimberlé and Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas1995Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the MovementThe New PressBook/TextAcademic WorkProgressive theories on law, race, and racial power; critical intersections between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class.Racism, critical scholarship
Curbedn.d.5 essential books on making cities anti-racistCurbedQuick linkAccessible Article https://www.curbed.com/2020/6/5/21281828/5-essential-books-for-designing-equitable-citiesRacism, urban planning
Daniella Fergussonn.d.Inclusive Urbanism Reading ListMediumQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://medium.com/@daniella.fergusson/anti-racist-urbanism-reading-list-1846f8c7b57f
Fataar, Rashiq and Brett Petzer2014Cape Town’s Anti-Apartheid Urban PlanNext CityReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://nextcity.org/features/view/cape-towns-anti-apartheid-urban-planSpatial segregation of Cape Town under Grand Apartheid; democratization of its central rail terminal, which formerly concretized apartheid ideology.South AfricaCape Town, South Africa, apartheid, architecture, racism, segregation, urban planning
Felber, Garrett2020The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not NewBoston ReviewReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://bostonreview.net/race/garrett-felber-struggle-abolish-police-not-new?fbclid=IwAR2ll7rHBgfB0ZOLeU3MJEFCWODdJodCwcjhGPlK6SdCzeP7iM1WkgsKMpgA history of abolitionism (rather than reform) in American civil rights/policing activismUnited StatesAmerica, racism, policing, abolition
Finley, Mary Lou2016Inside the Contract Buyers League’s fight against housing discriminationChicago ReporterReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.chicagoreporter.com/inside-the-contract-buyers-leagues-fight-against-housing-discrimination/Story of the Contract Buyers League, which organized to fight the housing discrimination unfolding in Chicago through predatory deals.United StatesChicago, America, housing discrimination, contract buying, racism
Florido, Adrian2011How Segregation Defined San Diego’s NeighborhoodsVoice of San DiegoReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.voiceofsandiego.org/neighborhoods/how-segregation-defined-san-diegos-neighborhoods/History of restrictive covenants and neighborhood segregation in San Diego, California.United StatesSan Diego, California, America, restrictive covenants, housing discrimination, segregation, property
Gardener, Beth2020Unequal impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate ChangeYale Environment 360Reading ListAccessible Articlehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-changeElizabeth Yeampierre on systemic links between racism, capitalism, and climate change--drawing a direct line from legacies of slavery, colonialism and extraction to current environmental justice issues.United StatesAmerica, environmental justice, just transition, capitalism, racism, public health
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson2007Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaUniversity of California PressBook/TextAcademic WorkPolitical economy of prisons in California. Abolition geography; prisons as spatial fix.United StatesCalifornia, America, carceral geography, capitalism, abolition
Goldsmithsn.d.Forensic ArchitectureQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://forensic-architecture.org/
Goldstein, Eric An.d.NYC Council Must Restore Funds for Community CompostingReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nrdc.org/experts/eric-goldstein/nyc-council-must-restore-funds-community-composting?fbclid=IwAR3y_Cu_67oictyz_0Z4bfx2ceV2popQ54ZbqHwurWGf4nqV52_6M_ftKBENew York City Environment Director Eric A. Goldstein on the importance of community composting.United StatesNew York City, America, climate change, community composting
Gongadze, Salome2020Four months on: looking back at the COVID-19 epidemic in LondonReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://blogstest.lse.ac.uk/lselondon/four-months-on-looking-back-on-the-covid-19-epidemic-in-london/Emerging data on disproportionate impact of coronavirus pandemic on BAME communities in London; implications of housing/poverty.United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, Covid-19, racism, BAME communities, environmental justice
Gonnerman, Jennifer2014Before the LawThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-lawCentering the story of Kalief Browder in a profile on the brutality and injustice of New York City’s Rikers Island prison, the bail system, and mass incarceration in America.United StatesNew York City, America, Rikers Island, Kalief Browder, bail, prisons, mass incarceration, juvenile justice, racism
GSAPP Black Students Alliancen.d.On the futility of listeningQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/
Hamilton, Aretina R2020The Geography of Despair (or All These Rubber Bullets)MediumReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://medium.com/@blackgeographer/the-geography-of-despair-or-all-these-rubber-bullets-6f6d711159f5Dr. Aretina R. Hamilton on institutional racism in the geographic academy. “How race takes place.”United StatesAmerica, academia, geography, police brutality, racism
Harney, Stefano and Moten, Fred2013The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.Minor CompositionsBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdfAn exploration of The Undercommons: a liberatory possibility-space in the university and in life practice. Blackness and emancipatory governance.Black studies, Black Radical Tradition, culture, critical scholarship
Harris, Dianne2012Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in AmericaUniversity of Minnesota PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/little-white-housesHow the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era.United StatesAmerica, housing, racism, architecture
Harvardn.d.Covid-19 PM 2.5Quick linkAcademic Workhttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm/homeStudy on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the USUnited States
Harvard GSDn.d.Just City LabQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.designforthejustcity.org/
Harvard GSDn.d.Just City EssaysQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5dfb72697a9837b1f6751b/t/5b7d8b5a88251b1adad06c60/1534954340713/JustCityEssays.pdf
Hinton, Elizabeth2017From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.Book/TextAcademic WorkTracing the rise of mass incarceration in America to Lyndon-era “Great Society” social welfare programs.United StatesAmerica, mass incarceration, prisons, poverty, neoliberalism
Hinton, Elizabeth2020George Floyd’s Death is a Failure of Generations of LeadershipThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/george-floyd-protests-1960s.htmlLearning from misguided US policy decisions in response to 1960s protests. Also learning from the failed War on Poverty; Johnson’s Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) “the first and only time in the history of the United States that grassroots organizations received direct federal funding to transform unequal conditions on their own terms.” (Nixon diffused the OEO).United Statesracism, police brutality, protest
Hirsch, Afua2020The racism that killed George Floyd was built in BritainThe GuardianReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/03/racism-george-floyd-britain-america-uk-black-peopleLinking Geogre Floyd’s death to systemic racism and the dispensability of Black lives worldwide, demonstrated also by the disparity in Covid-19 deaths. Acknowledging Britain’s colonial past and its role in enslavement.George Floyd, Covid-19, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, Public Health, Colonialism, America, United Kingdom
Howard, Neil, and Roberto Forin2019Migrant Workers, ‘Modern Slavery’ and the Politics of Representation in Italian Tomato ProductionEconomy and SocietyJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085147.2019.1672426?journalCode=reso20Representational politics in relation to the production and marketization of Italy's ‘red Gold’, the tomato. Depiction of living and working conditions that are bad, but better than the alternative, and workers who are exploited, but nevertheless understand themselves as consenting to their exploitation.ItalyFoggia, Italy, modern slavery, supply chains, migrant workers
Ibram X. Kendin.d.An Antiracist Reading ListNew York TimesQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
Interboro Partnersn.d.The Arsenal of Exclusion and InclusionQuick linkAcademic Workhttp://www.interboropartners.com/projects/the-arsenal-of-exclusion-inclusion
Isabel Hunter and Lorenzo Di Pietro2017The Terrible Truth about Your Tin of Italian Tomatoes.Reading ListAccessible Articlewww.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/24/the-terrible-truth-about-your-tin-of-italian-tomatoes.Describes the inhumane conditions on tomato farms in Italy and the exploitation of migrant workers. About prosecution of food giants Mutti and Conserve Italia, linked to the death of seasonal labourer Abdullah Muhammed.ItalyItaly, Europe, working conditions, exploitation, migration, food, Abdullah Muhammed
Jaffe, Eric2014The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates the PoorFast CompanyReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.fastcompany.com/3034206/the-hidden-ways-urban-design-segregates-the-poorOn exclusionary design practices like poor doors, inaccessible ‘public’ spaces, surveillance or anti-homeless spikes.Architecture, urban planning, exclusionary design
Jash, Tahnee2020How to learn from Indigenous people about the Black Lives Matter movement in AustraliaABC NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408A collection of resources by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content creators and storytellers, narrating Australia’s silenced history. How storytelling is linked to Black Lives Matter.AustraliaIndigenous people, Indigenous land, Black Lives Matter
Jones, Tobias, and Ayo Awokoya2019Are Your Tinned Tomatoes Picked by Slave Labour?The GuardianReading ListAccessible Articlewww.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy-mafia-migrant-labour-modern-slavery.A long read about the conditions of modern slavery in southern Italian agriculture. Hundreds of thousands of workers from Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia and Eastern Europe are enslaved by gangmasters and have to work and live in inhumane conditions.ItalyModern slavery, working conditions, migration, food industry, mafia, Europe, Italy
Jones, William P2020The Dignity of LaborDissent MagazineReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-dignity-of-laborThe exploitation--despite reification--of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.Covid-19, public health, labor
Kaplan, Victoria.2006Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States.Rowman and Littlefield.Book/TextAcademic Workhttps://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Structural_Inequality.html?id=SmtL1cm0OmYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=falseOn systemic racism in architecture in the U.SUnited StatesAmerica, architecture, racism, critical scholarship
Kelly, Robin D.G.2017What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?Boston ReviewReading ListAccessible Articlehttp://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-what-did-cedric-robinson-mean-racial-capitalismOn the intellectual contributions of Cedric Robinson, who critiqued Marx for failing to understand the racial character of capitalism, the Black Radical Tradition, or categories of class outside of Europe.Capitalism, racial capitalism, Black Radical Tradition, Black Marxism
Klein, Ezra2020Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is HopefulVoxReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21279530/ta-nehisi-coates-ezra-klein-show-george-floyd-police-brutality-trump-bidenEzra Klein in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about parallels and differences between today and 1968.United Statesracism, protest, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Klein, Naomi2007The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.Metropolitan BooksBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tsd_nk.pdfKlein defines disaster capitalism as “orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market opportunities.” Discusses Milton Friedman, Thatcherism, the CIA, Iraq War intervention and other global examplesCapitalism, disaster, critical scholarship
Kolinjivadi, Vijay2020The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisisAl JazeeraReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-outbreak-part-climate-change-emergency-200325135058077.htmlOn the common roots of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.Climate change, Covid-19
Kolinjivadi, Vijay2020This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same songUneven EarthReading ListAccessible Articlehttp://unevenearth.org/2020/04/this-pandemic-is-ecological-breakdown-different-tempo-same-song/Kolinjivadi takes the argument further: fundamentally linking crises of Covid-19, climate, and capitalism.Climate change, Covid-19, capitalism
Lee Jr, Bryan2020America’s Cities Were Designed to OppressCitylabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/06/george-floyd-protest-urban-design-history-racism-architecture/612622/For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned and designed to perpetuate it.” On the Design Justice Movement, which “seeks to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture as a tool of oppression and sees it as an opportunity to envision radically just spaces centered on the liberation of disinherited communities.”United Statesurban planning, Design Justice
Lens, Michael C. and Paavo Monkkonen2015Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated By Income?Journal of the American Planning AssociationJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2015.1111163?journalCode=rjpa20#.VoqIIbYrLrcZoning (density restrictions) drives income segregation; towards planning for inclusionary housing requirements.United StatesAmerica; income segregation, land use regulations, zoning
Lerner, Sharon2020The Coronavirus Pandemic and Police Violence Have Reignited the Fight Against Toxic RacismThe InterceptReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://theintercept.com/2020/06/17/coronavirus-environmental-justice-racism-robert-bullard/In conversation with Robert Bullard: re-launching the National Black Environmental Justice Network in the wake of Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on black communities--and the resurgence of protests against police brutality. “You tell me your zip code, and I can tell you how healthy you are.”United Statesenvironmental justice, police brutality, Covid-19, public health, Robert Bullard, Damu Smith
Lewan, Todd and Dolores Barclay2001When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your FutureLA TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-02-mn-10514-story.htmlThe AP reports on legacies of Black American land loss; sweeping evidence of violent land-taking.United Statesracism, property, land
LSE Sociologyn.d.Open Access CurriculumQuick linkAcademic Workhttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdfon race, space, and architecture
Make the Road NY2020Excluded in the Epicenter: Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis on Working-Class Immigrant, Black, and Brown New YorkersReportAcademic Workhttps://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MRNY_SurveyReport_small.pdfThe report examines in detail the experience of working-class immigrant, Black and Brown New Yorkers during this crisis. Based on a survey of 244 primarily Latinx immigrants across New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, one third of whom are undocumented, it provides striking findings related to the pandemic’s toll on community members’ health, income and work, housing insecurity, and education. The report demands for New York State to advance a true recovery for all by creating a $3.5 million fund for excluded workers, canceling rent, and addressing the public health crisis in the state’s jails and prisons by freeing at-risk detained and incarcerated people.United StatesNew York, America, Covid-19, crisis, migration
Manoeli, Sebabatso C.2020We Have no Harlem in SudanAfrica is a CountryReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://africasacountry.com/2020/06/we-have-no-harlem-in-sudan?fbclid=IwAR15K6OIFSkbtYG8D46axsA1MRaIpPoze5ojW8KsCD2JegdydDjHmfqrlIYArguing that the current global public discourse does not yet adequately include anti-black racism beyond how the West and white settler states experience/theorize it. “The American framework for anti-black racism is rooted in white supremacy, stemming from Europe’s long history of racism and through its imperialist occupations in large parts of the world. However, although this specific prism illuminates anti-black racism in postcolonial cities and countries, it inadvertently conceals it in places with different histories.” To Manoeli, this is damaging: while the world can understand how to fight racism in Harlem and Soweto, it does not have the framework (and as such, the international attention/support) to combat how anti-black racism operates in Sudan.Pan-Africa, White supremacy, police brutality, protest, racism, colonialism, global discourse
Massey, Douglas S2003American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclassHarvard University PressBook/TextAcademic WorkTracing legacies of de jure and de facto segregation in the U.S., and the detrimental impact this has had on Black communities.United StatesAmerica, racism, segregation, neoliberalism, urban planning
Mbao, Wamuwi2020What continuities can be drawn from the murder of Ahmed Timol in apartheid Joburg to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis?Johannesburg Review of BooksReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2020/07/03/what-continuities-can-be-drawn-from-the-murder-of-ahmed-timol-in-apartheid-joburg-to-the-killing-of-george-floyd-in-minneapolis-wamuwi-mbao-unpacks-the-debased-tradition-of-police-murdering-civilians/Assessing what can be learned about histories of police brutality across contexts--from apartheid South Africa to America. Reviewing hidden narratives revealed in The Murder of Ahmed Timol, and asking how this story provides a structure for reckoning with police killings of Black Americans. “The past is buried when people dig in their heels and say ‘nothing will be gained from excavating and uncovering’.”South Africapolice brutality, Ahmed Timol, protest, apartheid
McKibben, Bill2020How Public Opinion Changes for the BetterThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-public-opinion-changes-for-the-betterLongtime climate activist Bill McKibben reflects on waves of public opinion change in the US and what protests against police brutality could mean for the fight against systemic racism. “The video of George Floyd’s death was so stark that it summed up, in an iconic way no witness could avoid understanding, so much of the country’s racial history.” On digital organizing and how to effectively build pressure; also considering what has (and has not) changed since the 1960s.United Statesclimate change, environmental justice, police brutality, protest, public opinion, George Floyd
McKibben, Bill2020Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate are Not Separate IssuesThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible ArticleBill McKibben on the intersectional causes/experiences of racism, police brutality, and climate change. Toward environmental justice.United Statesclimate change, environmental justice, inclusive environmentalism, police brutality, Covid-19
McKittrick, Katherine and Woods, Clide2007Black geographies and the politics of placeBetween the linesBook/TextAcademic WorkCollection of writings on intersections between space and race; cultural property. “Is it even possible that advocating for preserving historic locations can act as a vehicle for social justice and spur community development?”America, Caribbean, Canada
Melosi, Martin V2008The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the PresentUniversity of Pittsburgh PressBook/TextAcademic WorkA comprehensive history of sanitary services in urban America, from The Age of Miasmas, to the Bacteriological revolution, to The New Ecology.United StatesAmerica, sanitation, infrastructure, ecology, public health
Merrifield, Andy2002Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist CityMonthly Review PressBook/TextAcademic WorkMarxist geographer Merrifield explores case studies of Liverpool, Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles. He contextualizes issues like gentrification and development, affordability, government accountability, and policing within the broader political economy of global capitalism.Liverpool, United Kingdom, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York City, America, gentrification, capitalism
Minton, Anna2017Big Capital: Who is London For?Penguin PressBook/TextAcademic WorkMinton details the political and economic forces which produced London’s housing crisis, arguing that austerity is a key driver of inequality.United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, housing, capitalism, neoliberalism, austerity
Misra, Tanvi2016Instead of Trump’s Wall, Why Not a Binational Border City?CitylabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.citylab.com/design/2016/09/instead-of-a-wall-build-a-binational-city-us-mexico-border-trump/499634/Mexican architect Fernando Romero’s vision for a walkable city straddling the U.S.-Mexico border--bridging cultural/political divides.
Link to his practice: Fr-ee
Borders, US-Mexico Border, urban planning
Mitman, Gregg2008Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and LandscapesYale University PressBook/TextAcademic WorkDrawing on environmental, medical, and cultural history and the life stories of people, plants, and insects, Mitman traces how America’s changing environment from the late 1800s to the present day has led to the epidemic growth of allergic disease. Especially see Choking Cities (Chapter 4), on the “ecologies of injustice” which structure urban life.United StatesAmerica, ecology, pollution, public health, environmental justice
National Organization of Minority Architectsn.d.Statement on Racial InjusticeQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://noma.net/nomas-public-statement-regarding-racial-injustice-2020-may-31/United States
New York Timesn.d.Read up on the links between racism and climate changeNew York TimesQuick linkAccessible Article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/05/climate/racism-climate-change-reading-list.htmlRacism, climate change
Nixon, Rob2013Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorHarvard University PressBook/TextAcademic WorkNixon develops framework of slow violence to problematize environmental racism and inequality.Inclusive environmentalism, environmental humanities
Nonko, Emily2016Redlining: How one racist, Depression-era policy still shapes New York real estateBrick UndergroundReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/10/history_of_redliningHistory of redlining and its legacy in New York CityUnited Statesredlining, housing discrimination, segregation, urban planning
NYUn.d.Urban Democracy LabQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://urbandemos.nyu.edu/
NYUn.d.The Latinx ProjectQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/
Oliveri, Federico2017Racialization and Counter-Racialization in Times of Crisis: Taking Migrant Struggles in Italy as a Critical Standpoint on Race.Ethnic and Racial StudiesJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1391404Racialization first as a structural feature of neoliberalism in Italian society, and then as a crisis management strategy in the transition to late neoliberalism. Migrant struggles – for freedom of movement and the right to life, for equality at work, for the right to housing –interpreted as examples of counter-racialization.Italy; racialization, racism, neoliberalism, crisis, migration
Osaka, Shannon2020Tear gas and coronavirus are a ‘recipe for disaster,’ experts warn.GristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/justice/tear-gas-and-coronavirus-are-a-recipe-for-disaster-experts-warn/Examining problematic use of tear gas on protestors, against the backdrop of a respiratory pandemic disproportionately affecting communities which experience environmental racism.United Statesprotest, Covid-19, environmental racism, public health
Packer, George2015The Other FranceThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-franceOn the racial tensions underpinning the public housing projects of Paris, the French banlieues.FranceHLM, banlieue, public housing, racism
Perera, Jessica2019The London Clearances: Race, Housing and PolicingThe Institute of Race RelationsReportAcademic Workhttp://www.irr.org.uk/app/uploads/2019/02/The-London-Clearances-Race-Housing-and-Policing.pdfDemonstrates how, under policies developed since the 2008 financial crisis and 2011 urban riots, a dangerous symbiosis has been forged between housing policies directed toward the ‘regeneration’ of London’s council housing estates, and new forms of policinUnited KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, austerity, policing, housing, public housing
Peters, Adele2020This Atlanta jail will transform into a center for justice and equityFast CompanyReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.fastcompany.com/90515296/this-atlanta-jail-will-transform-into-a-center-for-justice-and-equity?fbclid=IwAR2AztDuBxLHSq1JHMqLJ-M2nfGBufwSex-vOoM0zGTBzUXHAldql4N4V_QProfiling the makeover of an Atlanta prison, designed by architect Deanna Van Buren who co-founded nonprofit design firm Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. The project will transform into a restorative justice center.United Statesprisons, mass incarceration, restorative justice, Design justice
Picker, G.2017Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban EuropeBook/TextAcademic WorkOn the mechanisms of racial segregation of Romani people in contemporary Europe. Draws parallels between contemporary governance of Romani people in Romania, Italy, France, UK and the practices of colonial spatial governance in Rabat, New Delhi, Addis AbabaEurope, Roma, segregation, racism
Places Journaln.d.Black in DesignQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://placesjournal.org/reading-list/black-in-design/?cn-reloaded=1Reading List
Porter, Amanda2016Decolonizing policing: Indigenous patrols, counter-policing and safetyTheoretical CriminologyJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480615625763Everyday operation and politics of Indigenous patrols, community-run initiatives with formal agendas that focus on keeping young people safe and preventing contact between young people and the state police. Patrols used as a lens through which to critically examine contemporary issues in the policing of Indigenous Australian communities and as a way of exploring what it means to decolonize the institutions and activities of policing.AustraliaNew South Wales, Australia, colonialism, Indigenous peoples, juvenile justice, legal pluralism, policing
Porter, Libby2018Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their historySBSReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/05/09/indigenous-communities-are-reworking-urban-planning-planners-need-accept-theirOn the exclusion of Indigenous Australians from urban areas; towards urban land justice.AustraliaIndigenous people, First Nations Australians, urban planning
Prison Policyn.d.Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for AbolitionistsQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/
Pronczuk, Monika and Megan Specia2020Belgium’s King Sends Letter of Regret Over Colonial Past in CongoThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/europe/belgium-king-congo.html?campaign_id=51&emc=edit_MBE_p_20200701&instance_id=19902&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=97678672&section=topNews&segment_id=32301&te=1&user_id=5235e29b73bd30b16c0d5a261af74e09Reckoning with postcolonial Belgium-DRC relations in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the toppling of monuments to King Leopold II.BelgiumThe Democratic Republic of Congo, colonialism, monuments
Raven, Rakia2016A sinking jail: The environmental disaster that is Rikers IslandGristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/justice/a-sinking-jail-the-environmental-disaster-that-is-rikers-island/The physical and environmental violence (landfill history) of New York CIty’s Rikers Island jail complex.United Statesenvironmental justice, prisons, mass incarceration, Rikers Island
Razack, Sherene2002Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler SocietyBetween the LinesBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://btlbooks.com/book/race-space-and-the-lawExamining the production of spaces through planning and law: hierarchies that emerge from spatial categories. Unmapping drinking establishments, parks, slums, classrooms, urban spaces of prostitution, parliaments, main streets, and borders. “How place becomes race” (Manitoba Court of Appeal Judge).US-Mexico Border, US-Canada Border, Manitoba, Canada, racism, critical scholarship, geography, law
Ricciulli, Valeria2020NYC immigrants fear losing their homes during the pandemicCurbedReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://ny.curbed.com/2020/5/27/21265692/nyc-coronavirus-immigrants-rent-queens-brooklynThe disproportionate impact of the pandemic on communities of color and immigrant New Yorkers, and in particular on housing security as many people are unable to pay rent.United StatesCovid-19, housing, migration
Robinson, Cedric J1983Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical TraditionUniversity of North Carolina PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdfRobinson’s seminal text takes Marx to task for failing to understand the racial character of capitalism, the Black Radical Tradition, or categories of class outside of Europe.Capitalism, Black Radical Tradition, Black Marxism
Rothstein, Richard2017The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated AmericaLiverightBook/TextAcademic WorkA history of residential segregation in AmericaUnited StatesAmerica, segregation, housing, zoning, racism
Roy, Ananya2017Dis/possessive collectivism: property and personhood at city’s end.Geoforum 80Journal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718516302949Roy explores the Chicago Anti-Eviction campaign.United StatesChicago, America, dispossession, property, racial banishment, displacement, collectivism
Roy, Ananya2019Racial BanishmentKeywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50Journal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119558071.ch42Roy develops concept of racial banishment: State‐instituted violence against racialised bodies and communities. Racial banishment as the territorial proliferation of prison logics, manifested in geographies of forced mobility and illegalised presence that stretch far beyond the prison but that are inevitably refracted through the institutions of mass incarceration.United StatesAmerica, mass incarceration, racial banishment, racialization, critical scholarship, white supremacy
Roy, Arundhati2020The Pandemic is a PortalFinancial TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920caArundhati Roy on the global forces that led to the pandemic; the politics at different levels of the Indian state in face of the pandemic; and the devastating effects of both Covid-19 and the lockdown itself across India.IndiaCovid-19, capitalism
RTPIn.d.5 Reasons for Climate Justice in Spatial PlanningRTPIQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.rtpi.org.uk/research/2020/january/five-reasons-for-climate-justice-in-spatial-planning/United Kingdom
Rutten, Koen2020What a planner might learn from the Black Lives Matter movementTown and Country Planning Association BlogReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.tcpa.org.uk/blog/blog-what-a-planner-might-learn-from-the-black-lives-matter-movementThe current planning system in the UK, with its focus on housing numbers and deregulation, cultivates an environment with few people of color in positions of power. Lacking opportunities for participatory, democratic planning reinforces race-based exclusions.United Kingdomurban planning, segregation, public health
Ruzicka, Michal2012Continuity or rupture? Roma/Gypsy communities in rural and urban environments under post-socialismJournal of Rural StudiesJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743016712000204Brief outline of the experience of Czech and Slovak Romani people from 1950s to present, also paying attention to the differentiated experiences between different Romani groups (rural and urban).Czech RepublicCzech Republic and Slovakia; post-socialism, social exclusion, marginalization, Roma/Gypsies.
Sabrina Bazilen.d.Urban Planners as Organizers Toward Liberation: A resource guide and frameworkQuick linkAccessible Article https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGcdwuWLt3zO-MqYU1UIMl7422zEdIKUKEAEtOTSnzk/editUrban planning, abolition
Sacoby WilsonCommunity Engagement, Environmental Justice and HealthQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://sph.umd.edu/laboratory-resources/community-engagement-environmental-justice-and-health-ceejh
Satariano, Adam2010He’s Buying Up Brixton’: Beloved Grocer’s Eviction Sparks Gentrification FightThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/europe/brixton-london-eviction-grocer-nour.htmlThe story of a battle over Nour Cash & Carry, a grocery store in Brixton, London. The iconic shop got an eviction notice, igniting a wave of activism to save Brixton.United Kingdomgentrification, Covid-19, migration
Saviano, Roberto2010Italy's African HeroesThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible ArticleOn a protest of African migrants in the south of Italy against the mafia which controls all economic activity and keeps African migrants in poor working and life conditions, outside of the law’s reach. While protesters are portrayed as criminals, the real criminals are those they rebel against.Italymafia, migration, exploitation
Schneider, Benjamin2019CityLab University: Shared-Equity HomeownershipBloomberg CityLabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/alternative-homeownership-land-trusts-and-co-opsThe article is part of Bloomberg CityLab University. It describes community land trusts and housing co-ops as alternative land- and home-ownership structures that provide benefits traditional markets cannot, but face significant financial and logistical challenges.Community land trust, cooperative housing, homeownership, housing
Sen, Amartya2009The Idea of JusticeHarvard University PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://dutraeconomicus.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/amartya-sen-the-idea-of-justice-2009.pdfAmartya Sen critiques John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice.Critical scholarship, philosophy, law
Shedd, Carla2015Unequal city: race, schools, and perceptions of injusticeRussell Sage FoundationBook/TextAcademic WorkOn racial segregation and its impacts on schoolchildren (race, place, and opportunity) in ChicagoUnited StatesChicago, Illinois, America, racism, segregation, education
Shildrick, Tracy2018Lessons from Grenfell: Poverty propaganda, stigma and class power.The Sociological ReviewJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026118777424This article draws on the example of Grenfell Tower to interrogate issues around poverty, inequality and austerity.United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, housing, poverty, class
Simpson, Sheryl-Ann, Steil, Justin, and Mehta, Aditi2020Planning Beyond Mass IncarcerationJournal of Planning Education and ResearchJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739456X20915505Relationships between planning and law enforcement. Attention to racial justice including analyzing moments where planning supported and produced injustice, and identifying opportunities to support greater equity, decarceration and even abolition where planning practice, education and research support the creation of systems of safety and care beyond mass incarceration.America, prisons, policing, mass incarceration, urban planning, critical scholarship
Smith, Neil2006There’s No Such Thing as a Natural DisasterSocial Science Research CouncilReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://items.ssrc.org/understanding-katrina/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-natural-disaster/Denaturalizing environmental disaster; identifying how social differentiation is politically produced :Inclusive environmentalism, disaster, critical scholarship
Sorin, Gretchen2020Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil RightsLiverightBook/TextAcademic WorkHow the automobile fundamentally changed African-American life. Against the historical backdrop of restrictions on Black movement, Sorin positions the car as a device for freedom and social networking. She discusses Green Book, a travel guide “which helped grant black Americans that most basic American rite, the family vacation.” Sorin weaves photos, along with her own family history, throughout.America, cars, transportation, racism
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committeen.d.1969: Fannie Lou Hamer Founds Freedom Farm CooperativeReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/A history of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative.Freedom farms, food, collective land ownership
Suzuki, David2020Rethinking roads can drive down species declineStraight.comReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.straight.com/news/david-suzuki-rethinking-roads-can-drive-down-species-declineRethinking Canadian road-wildlife relations during Covid-19 lockdown.CanadaCovid-19, climate change, urban planning
Suzuki, David2020Returning to normal after pandemic isn’t good enoughChek NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://cheknews.ca/david-suzuki-returning-to-normal-after-pandemic-isnt-good-enough-67242David Suzuki argues that tackling the pandemic is a start to addressing other crises like climate disruption and species extinction.CanadaCovid-19, climate change
Sze, Julie2006Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental JusticeMIT PressBook/TextAcademic WorkOn community-based environmental activism across underserved NYC boroughsNew York City, America, environmental justice, pollution
Tayob, Huda and Hall, Suzanne2019Race, space and architecture: towards an open-access curriculumLondon School of Economics and Political Science, Department of SociologyReportAcademic Workhttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdfThis project asks what a curriculum on space-making and race-making might look like with architecture and the designed world as a key reference point. At the project’s core is an understanding of racialization as a process of violent displacement - of person, of land, of future - simultaneously with an emplacement through citizenship status, territory, built objects and knowledge forms. Three key questions 1) What are the spatial contours of capitalism that produce racial hierarchy and injustice? 2) What are the inventive repertoires of refusal, resistance and re-making that are neither reduced to nor exhausted by racial capitalism, and how are they spatialized? 3) How is ‘race’ configured differently across space, and how can a more expansive understanding of entangled world space broaden our imagination for teaching and learning?Education, Race, Space, Architecture
The Baltimore Housing Roundtable2016Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development Without Displacement.Partners for Dignity and RightsReportAcademic Workhttps://dignityandrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CLT_web-copy.pdfOf the 50 largest cities in the United States, Baltimore has moved to 15th in terms of census tracts that have gentrified. On the development and segregation of Baltimore; forging an answer through community land trusts and community-driven development.United StatesBaltimore, Maryland, America, segregation, community land trust
The Senate2006Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wagesStanding Committee on Legal and Constitutional AffairReportAcademic Workhttps://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/legal_and_constitutional_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/stolen_wages/report/indexThe terms of reference for this inquiry relate to 'Indigenous workers whose paid labour was controlled by Government'. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, governments put in place extensive controls over the employment, working conditions and wages of Indigenous workers. These controls permitted, both explicitly and implicitly, the non-payment of wages to some Indigenous workers, as well as the underpayment of wages, and the diversion of wages into trust and savings accounts.Australia, Aboriginality, First Nations Australians, stolen wages
The Syllabusn.d.Coronavirus ReadingsThe SyllabusQuick linkAccessible Article https://covid19syllabus.substack.com/comprehensive lists of work engaging the politics of the unfolding pandemicCovid-19
Thomas, Destiny2020Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives.CityLabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/06/open-streets-transportation-planning-urban-design-racism/612763/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=citylabOn how pandemic-induced pedestrian street redesigns can deepen inequity and mistrust in disenfranchised communities.United StatesUrban planning, racism
Thompson, Claire Elise2020Why racial justice is climate justiceGristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/fix/combatting-climate-change-covid-19-and-systemic-injustice-on-the-same-front/On why disasters are never colorblind; words from EJ activists on what to do.United Statesenvironmental justice, police brutality, climate change, disaster
UBCn.d.Reading List of Black GeographersQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.geog.ubc.ca/a-reading-list-of-black-geographers/
UCL/Hutchins (Harvard)n.d.Legacies of British Slave Ownership ProjectQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
UCLAn.d.Institute on Inequality and DemocracyQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/work on housing justice; policing and incarceration
University of Pennsylvanian.d.Covid x ClimateQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/experiments/covid-x-climate?fbclid=IwAR3QKP9ZkWFIFBMgCvNYo8sq7hpeddSG3VuZGZBcula1kodKWREvGM5mGGg
Urban Omnibusn.d.The Location of JusticeQuick linkAccessible Article https://urbanomnibus.net/2017/11/map-location-justice/Architectural League NY on carceral infrastructure throughout New York CityUrban planning, prisons
Velasco, Gabriella2020How Community Land Trusts Can Advance Racial and Economic JusticeHousing Matters: an Urban Institute InitiativeReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-community-land-trusts-can-advance-racial-and-economic-justiceExploring Community Land Trusts as a tool to shift leadership, power, and decision-making to residents and equip communities with more resources to combat gentrification and displacement.Community land trusts, gentrification urban planning, Design Justice
Wallace, Rob2006Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of ScienceMonthly Review PressBook/TextAcademic WorkOn agribusiness and shocks in the industrial, global food system which breed diseases in humansfood, capitalism, supply chains
Wang, R., Cahen, C., Acolin, A. and Walter R. J.2019Tracking Growth and Evaluating Performance of Shared Equity Homeownership Programs During Housing Market FluctuationsLincoln Institute of Land PolicyReportAcademic Workhttps://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/tracking-growth-evaluating-performance-shared-equity-homeownershipFindings from this study not only confirm that shared equity models provide affordable homeownership to lower income families generation after generation, but also establish that the sector provides financial security and mitigates risks for homeowners facing housing market turmoil.United StatesAmerica, shared equity, homeownership, affordability
Waquant, Loïc2007Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced MarginalityPolity PressBook/TextAcademic WorkComparing the “inner city” of Chicago and the “outer city” of Paris. In both cases, sociologist Waquant articulate’s the state’s role in producing class, race, and place.Chicago, Illinois, America, Paris, France, banlieue, class, racism
Waquant, Loïc2009Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social InsecurityDuke University PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://libcom.org/files/Lo%C3%AFc%20Wacquant%20-%20Punishing%20the%20Poor.pdfWaquant considers America as “living laboratory of neoliberal failure,” framing the crisis of the welfare state as the “irruption of the penal state.”United StatesAmerica, neoliberalism, capitalism, poverty, policing
Washington, Hariet2008Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to PresentBook/TextAcademic WorkA lengthy history of medical experimentation on African Americans.United StatesAmerica, apartheid, racism, scientific racism, public health
Wensing, E. & Porter, L2016Unsettling planning's paradigms: towards a just accommodation of Indigenous rights and interests in Australian urban planning?Australian PlannerJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07293682.2015.1118394Planning persistently renders Aboriginal people invisible, and perpetuates colonial dispossession. Article highlights need to understand how Australian cities and towns can be understood as Aboriginal places, and the contemporary ways in which Aboriginal people are seeking recognition of their rights in cities and towns through processes like native title claims and determinations.AustraliaAustralia, Aboriginality, Indigenous land, urban planning
Wilkins, Craig2020It’s Time for Architects to Accept ResponsibilityCurbedReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.curbed.com/2020/7/21/21331734/architecture-equity-black-lives-matter-craig-wilkinsCraig L. Wilkins argues for an urgent reckoning from the architectural field, reflecting on why it does not have a Hippocratic Oath, like medicine. “There has to be some statement that architects don’t just work for the highest bidder.”Architecture, racism, solidarity, critical scholarship
Wilkins, Craig L2007The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and MusicUniversity of Minnesota press.Book/TextAcademic WorkHow African Americans are marginalized within the architectural field; how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communitiesUnited StatesAmerica, architecture, racism, critical scholarship
Williams, Finn and David Chipperfield2020Boris Johnson is wrong to blame the housing crisis on overregulationThe GuardianReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/11/boris-johnson-wrong-housing-crisis-overregulationHow Boris Johnson’s plan to “build, build, build” the UK out of the coronavirus pandemic “shows a frightening misunderstanding of planning and infrastructure.”United KingdomBoris Johnson, housing, urban planning
Yancy, Roy2020Judith Butler: Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its DisparitiesTruthoutReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://truthout.org/articles/judith-butler-mourning-is-a-political-act-amid-the-pandemic-and-its-disparities/In conversation with theorist Judith Butler about lessons to be gleaned from the pandemic.Covid-19, critical scholarship
Zalta, Michael2020Beyond the Critical Framework of Ashkenormativity: Reimagining Jewish Solidarity and Klal IsraelZaman CollectiveReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.zamancollective.com/all-posts/michaelbeyondashkenormativity?fbclid=IwAR0HoaTerJtRxP9YWvjPF0WE0Glu4huYGN-qv7EaO5fB_MmO3p_4E3rTOSMThinking beyond familiar modes of solidarity, reflecting on Ashkenormativity in Jewish community spaces, and imagining a new Jewish Commons.IsraelJewish Commons, Ashkenormativity, solidarity
AuthorYear of PublicationTitleSourceSource FormatStyleLinkSummaryCountryKeyword
ABCn.d.Resource Guide: Engaging with Indigenous ContentABCQuick linkAccessible Article https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408Australia, Aboriginality
Agyeman, Julian2012Just sustainabilities.Blog, Julian AgyemanReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://julianagyeman.com/2012/09/21/just-sustainabilities/Agyeman lays out his framework for just sustainabilities (further developed in Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice). Challenging hegemonic “sustainability” discourse and advocating for more place-based, inclusive conceptions that champion social welfare.sustainability, just sustainabilities, inclusive environmentalism, ecological modernization, welfare
Agyeman, Julian and Kofi Boone2020Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation—Is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership?The ConversationReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://theconversation.com/land-loss-has-plagued-black-america-since-emancipation-is-it-time-to-look-again-at-black-commons-and-collective-ownership-140514Context to police brutality: fundamental inequity in wealth, land and power that has circumscribed black lives since the end of slavery, when the promised “40 acres and a mule” never came to pass. Discrimination effects who owns property, as well as land.
Expanding the black commons: Fundamental power of land ownership, shared. + Economic, cultural, and digital resources. Freedom farms, credit unions, co-ops.
United StatesAmerica, reparations, land, black commons, collective land ownership, freedom farms, homeownership, property, redlining, restrictive covenants.
Agyeman, Julian, Caitlin Matthews and Hannah Sobel2017Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social JusticeBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://julianagyeman.com/books/food-trucks-cultural-identity-and-social-justice/Using food trucks as a lens to explore the racialized political economies of changing foodscapes. Vending, criminalization, and gentrification.food, culture, social justice
Agyeman, Julian, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans2002Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and EquitySpace and PolityJournal ArticleAcademic WorkThe issue of environmental equity is inextricably tied to that of human equality at all scales. Exploring different traditions, approaches of environmental justiceinclusive environmentalism, environmental justice, just sustainabilities
Ajani, Ashia2020Making it Easier to Breathe.”Sierra MagReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/making-it-easier-breathe?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sierramag&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3ppgn7taJs9FuQuehdYJ_WOLIKOmInKr6NsgJjTJ4KwHiv4UEXFGtj-O4On Black environmentalism and defunding the police: “For many, the lived experience of being violently policed and not being protected from toxic pollution coincide.”
“As we move toward a transformative justice model of thinking, we are also going to have to think about land in new ways … What is our world going to look like once we finally return the large swaths of territory that was seized through violence back to the Cheyenne, the Mohawk, the Ohlone people, and countless other Indigenous groups? How are we going to heal the thousands of lives that have been impacted by terror? How are we working to undo our own complicated relationships to punishment?”
Inclusive environmentalism, police brutality, environmental justice, ethics of care, Indigenous land
Alexander, Michelle2010The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessThe New Press.Book/TextAcademic WorkAlexander argues that mass incarceration is a comprehensive and well-disguised system of racial control that functions remarkably similarly to Jim Crow. She holds that a racial caste system emerged in response to the Civil Rights Movement, and traces the impact of the War on Drugs.United StatesAmerica, mass incarceration, policing, racism, drug policy, Jim Crow
Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman2011Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and SustainabilityThe MIT PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://julianagyeman.com/books/cultivating-food-justice/Highlighting how race and class permeate the food system; how communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food.United StatesAmerica, food, food justice, environmental justice, racism, class, sustainability, public health
American Institute of Architectsn.d.50 Years After Whitney Young, JrQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.50yearsafterwhitneyyoung.org/introduction-aia-and-whitney-young
Andrews, Eve2020A River Runs Through It: Southern California’s coastal and mountainous regions face the same, fickle climate enemy.GristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/climate/san-diego-county-atmospheric-river-imperial-beach/San Diego, California facing climate change. Columbia University: the American West is suffering a climate-induced drought. Profiles of Imperial Beach, on US-Mexico border, and Native American reservation, La Jolla. Issue of sewerage flooding from Tijuana, and the working-class IB community getting sick in its wake.United StatesSan Diego, California, America, Tijuana, Mexico, US-Mexico border, climate change, coastal cities, Indigenous land
Angotti, Tom and Morse, Sylvia2017Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York CityTerreform Urban Research.Book/TextAcademic Work- Collection of writings on how zoning, land use and housing policies have influenced gentrification and displacement in NYC neighborhoods across Williamsburg, Harlem, and Chinatown.United StatesNew York City, America, zoning, urban planning, gentrification
Anthony, Thalia and Stephen Gray2020Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate.SBS NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/was-there-slavery-in-australia-yes-it-shouldn-t-even-be-up-for-debateLegal history of slavery in Australia, where Melanesian people were brought and enslaved to work in Queensland sugar plantations, and where First Nations Australians were forced into state-sanctioned labor.AustraliaAustralia, First Nations Australians, slavery
Architectural League NYn.d.Statement and Resources on Race and ArchitectureQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://archleague.org/the-architectural-leagues-statement-on-racial-justice/
Association of American Geographersn.d.tribute to Harold M. RoseQuick linkAcademic Workhttp://www.aag.org/cs/membership/tributes_memorials/mr/rose_harold
Bagley, Katherine2020Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the CoronavirusYale Environment 360Reading ListAccessible Articlehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/connecting-the-dots-between-environmental-injustice-and-the-coronavirusEJ scholar-advocate Sacoby Wilson on the ways that social and environmental inequality have contributed to the outsized impact of Covid-19 on low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
Studies show links between high levels of pollution and increased risk of death from Covid-19. Same communities lack a political voice (economic capital drives political capital). Also lack of advanced scientific work examining true costs.
United StatesAmerica, Detroit, Environmental justice, Covid-19
Bailey, Philip M. and Tessa Duvall2020Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers sayCourier JournalReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/05/lawyers-breonna-taylor-case-connected-gentrification-plan/5381352002/Connecting the murder of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police to a gentrification plan, as the city purchases a so-called “drug house” for a mere $1.United StatesLouisville, Kentucky, America, Breonna Taylor, police brutality, gentrification, community land trust
Baker, Mike and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Manny Fernandez and Michael LaForgia2020Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.The New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/28/us/i-cant-breathe-police-arrest.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-george-floyd&variant=show&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menuThe New York Times finds 70 cases over the past decade of American people dying in police custody after saying, “I cant breathe.”United StatesAmerica, police brutality, racism
Barry, Ellen20207 Lessons (And Warnings) From Those Who Marched With Dr. King.The New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/george-floyd-protests.htmlOrganizers who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on the George Floyd protests.United StatesAmerica, protest, racism, George Floyd, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Bennhold, Katrin and Melissa Eddy2020In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy is an Essential Part of Police Training.The New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/germany-police.htmlLearning from the overhauls of policing in Germany, after World War II. How cadets are taught shameful Nazi legacies, to prompt meaningful institutional reform.GermanyGermany, policing, institutional memory, reform
Berkeley Black Geographiesn.d.The Berkeley Black Geographies projectQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.theblackgeographic.com/berkeley-black-geographies
Bethea, Sally2020Above the Waterline: the convergence of the civil rights and environmental justice movements.Atlanta In Town PaperReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://atlantaintownpaper.com/2020/07/above-the-waterline-the-convergence-of-the-civil-rights-and-environmental-justice-movements/Brief history of environmental justice movement in the US, as it relates to civil rights. Sparked by protest over an illegal and toxic landfill in Warren County, North Carolina.United StatesWarren County, North Carolina, America, environmental justice, racism, protest
Bronin, Sara C.2020In fight for justice, zoning laws that exclude low-income people must be changedCourier JournalReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://eu.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2020/06/09/zoning-laws-exclude-poor-people-neighborhoods-must-change/3138316001/How zoning perpetuates structural inequities and preserves property values, although U.S. Supreme Court ruled “racial zoning” illegal in 1916 case, Buchanan v. Warley. How concept of orderliness becomes tool for exclusion.United StatesAmerica, zoning, urban planning
Brooks-LaSure, Allyn2020Your Confederacy is Choking my People.The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RightsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://civilrights.org/blog/your-confederacy-is-choking-my-people/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=confederacy&utm_content=blog&fbclid=IwAR1X6WEK66DPvU0x7wF-Aca7uYxdfelXj2V-eHs9-RgNWoNcD27xCxSRRkcTracing legacies of racial apartheid in the U.S., arguing that the confederacy cannot exist within a pluralistic America.United StatesAmerica, confederacy, monuments, racism, apartheid, protest
Brown, Aleen2020Inside Rikers: An Account of the Virus-Stricken Jail from a Man Who Managed to Get OutThe InterceptReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://theintercept.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-rikers-island-jail-nyc/The politics of Covid-19 release lists as the coronavirus sweeps New York City’s Rikers Island prison, where conditions render social distancing impossible.United StatesAmerica, New York City, Rikers Island, prisons, Covid-19
Butler, Tamika2020Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes.Bicycling MagazineReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32783551/cycling-talk-fight-racism/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflowTWBIOn race and cycling: Relationship between bike lanes and gentrification; marketing strategies which assume cisgender white maleness as the norm.United StatesAmerica, Los Angeles, cycling, urban planning, racism
Canadian Urban Instituten.d.How do we respond to anti-black racism in urbanist practices and conversations?Quick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.canurb.org/new-blog-1/2020/6/10/how-do-we-respond-to-anti-black-racism-in-urbanist-practices-and-conversationslinked panel moderated by placemaker Jay Pitter
Carmody, Rebecca2019The little-known story of when Perth banned Indigenous people from the city and suburbs.ABC NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-29/when-perth-banned-aboriginal-people-from-the-city/11818540History of Indigenous Ban in Perth, where Aboriginal populations were not allowed without a Native Pass from 1927-1954.AustraliaAustralia, Perth, zoning, segregation, First Nations Australians, racism
Carpenter, Zoe2020Will Covid-19 be a turning point in the fight against racial disparities in health care?The NationReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-19-racial-disparities-health/On the death of Jason Hargrove and racial disparities in health care across America.United StatesDetroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, America, Covid-19, racism, public health
Chapman, Isabelle and Drew Kann2020For some environmentalists, ‘I can’t breathe’ is about more than police brutality.CNNReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/environmental-racism-explainer-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2ptq-mjAFELpUMs9oxKh1YYu76oHD2kHcgRNKwlV-wYByxesjjPKfsEl8Connections between air pollution and police brutality--communities of color in the US are more likely to breathe air pollution, despite contributing less to it. Temporality: while some issues (ie police brutality) are more immediately obvious, air pollution contributes slowly to the same disproportionate deaths. Robert Bullard says that race is the most potent predictor of which communities are more polluted.United StatesAmerica, environmental justice, air pollution, public health, racism
Chayka, Kyle2020How the Coronavirus will reshape architectureThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architectureExploring how Covid-19 might impact architecture, as much of modernist design is a consequence of the fear of disease. Relationships between lockdown and domestic space; office space; city space. Tactical urbanism in NYC, London. The future of cities now a question of density.Covid-19, architecture, public health, tactical urbanism, density.
Choudhury, Bedatri D2019How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough SurvivedHyperallergicReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://hyperallergic.com/509397/decade-of-fire-bronx-documentary/Reviewing Decade of Fire, a 2019 documentary which tells the story of the South Bronx fires in New York City. The film “uncovers the ugly nexus of power that stood to gain by standing by and watching the area burn.” Operation Bootstrap, redlining, urban renewal. Profiling community organizations which rebuilt their borough.United StatesNew York, America, culture, community organizing, urban renewal, redlining, racism
Christ, Meehan2020What the Coronavirus Means for Climate ChangeThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.htmlExploring what the coronavirus crisis, despite tragedy, might mean for the climate crisis. “Humans are part of nature, not separate from it, and human activity that hurts the environment also hurts us.”Covid-19, climate change, nature
Coates, Ta-Nehisi2014The Case for ReparationsThe AtlanticReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/Developing a case for reparations by tracing the story of Clyde Ross, who grew up in a family of sharecroppers in Jim Crow Mississippi. Ross later joined the US Army and fought for America in World War II. Coates explores Ross’ mounting losses, on the grounds of his race: debt peonage, insufficient education, the terror of Klansmen. After the War, Ross experienced redlining and housing discrimination in North Lawndale, Chigago--Predatory agreements like contract buying. Neighborhood disinvestment prompted Ross to join the Contract Buyers League; “[They were no longer seeking the protection of the law. They were seeking reparations.”

History of reparations advocacy in the US--N’COBRA and HR 40. History of Reconstruction; how Roosevelt’s New Deal rested on the foundation of Jim Crow. White flight, active + institutional racism. Promises/pitfalls of affirmative action.

Defining reparations as “the full acceptance of our collective biography and its consequences … Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.” Important parallels between US and post-Holocaust Germany.
United StatesAmerica, Jim Crow, racism, reparations, contract buying, redlining
Coates, Ta-Nehisi2017My President Was BlackThe AtlanticReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on the Obama presidency and its (in)compalities with the hegemonic Black American experience--its enormous successes, and its excessive optimisms which laid an unexpected groundwork for Trumpism.United StatesAmerica, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, racism, culture
Colomina, Beatriz2018X-Ray ArchitectureLars Muller PublishersBook/TextAcademic WorkExplores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. Challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th Century was shaped by tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.architecture, public health, Covid-19
Columbia GSAPPn.d.Unlearning WhitenessQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site/
Crenshaw, Kimberlé and Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas1995Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the MovementThe New PressBook/TextAcademic WorkProgressive theories on law, race, and racial power; critical intersections between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class.Racism, critical scholarship
Curbedn.d.5 essential books on making cities anti-racistCurbedQuick linkAccessible Article https://www.curbed.com/2020/6/5/21281828/5-essential-books-for-designing-equitable-citiesRacism, urban planning
Daniella Fergussonn.d.Inclusive Urbanism Reading ListMediumQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://medium.com/@daniella.fergusson/anti-racist-urbanism-reading-list-1846f8c7b57f
Fataar, Rashiq and Brett Petzer2014Cape Town’s Anti-Apartheid Urban PlanNext CityReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://nextcity.org/features/view/cape-towns-anti-apartheid-urban-planSpatial segregation of Cape Town under Grand Apartheid; democratization of its central rail terminal, which formerly concretized apartheid ideology.South AfricaCape Town, South Africa, apartheid, architecture, racism, segregation, urban planning
Felber, Garrett2020The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not NewBoston ReviewReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://bostonreview.net/race/garrett-felber-struggle-abolish-police-not-new?fbclid=IwAR2ll7rHBgfB0ZOLeU3MJEFCWODdJodCwcjhGPlK6SdCzeP7iM1WkgsKMpgA history of abolitionism (rather than reform) in American civil rights/policing activismUnited StatesAmerica, racism, policing, abolition
Finley, Mary Lou2016Inside the Contract Buyers League’s fight against housing discriminationChicago ReporterReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.chicagoreporter.com/inside-the-contract-buyers-leagues-fight-against-housing-discrimination/Story of the Contract Buyers League, which organized to fight the housing discrimination unfolding in Chicago through predatory deals.United StatesChicago, America, housing discrimination, contract buying, racism
Florido, Adrian2011How Segregation Defined San Diego’s NeighborhoodsVoice of San DiegoReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.voiceofsandiego.org/neighborhoods/how-segregation-defined-san-diegos-neighborhoods/History of restrictive covenants and neighborhood segregation in San Diego, California.United StatesSan Diego, California, America, restrictive covenants, housing discrimination, segregation, property
Gardener, Beth2020Unequal impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate ChangeYale Environment 360Reading ListAccessible Articlehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-changeElizabeth Yeampierre on systemic links between racism, capitalism, and climate change--drawing a direct line from legacies of slavery, colonialism and extraction to current environmental justice issues.United StatesAmerica, environmental justice, just transition, capitalism, racism, public health
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson2007Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaUniversity of California PressBook/TextAcademic WorkPolitical economy of prisons in California. Abolition geography; prisons as spatial fix.United StatesCalifornia, America, carceral geography, capitalism, abolition
Goldsmithsn.d.Forensic ArchitectureQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://forensic-architecture.org/
Goldstein, Eric An.d.NYC Council Must Restore Funds for Community CompostingReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nrdc.org/experts/eric-goldstein/nyc-council-must-restore-funds-community-composting?fbclid=IwAR3y_Cu_67oictyz_0Z4bfx2ceV2popQ54ZbqHwurWGf4nqV52_6M_ftKBENew York City Environment Director Eric A. Goldstein on the importance of community composting.United StatesNew York City, America, climate change, community composting
Gongadze, Salome2020Four months on: looking back at the COVID-19 epidemic in LondonReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://blogstest.lse.ac.uk/lselondon/four-months-on-looking-back-on-the-covid-19-epidemic-in-london/Emerging data on disproportionate impact of coronavirus pandemic on BAME communities in London; implications of housing/poverty.United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, Covid-19, racism, BAME communities, environmental justice
Gonnerman, Jennifer2014Before the LawThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-lawCentering the story of Kalief Browder in a profile on the brutality and injustice of New York City’s Rikers Island prison, the bail system, and mass incarceration in America.United StatesNew York City, America, Rikers Island, Kalief Browder, bail, prisons, mass incarceration, juvenile justice, racism
GSAPP Black Students Alliancen.d.On the futility of listeningQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/
Hamilton, Aretina R2020The Geography of Despair (or All These Rubber Bullets)MediumReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://medium.com/@blackgeographer/the-geography-of-despair-or-all-these-rubber-bullets-6f6d711159f5Dr. Aretina R. Hamilton on institutional racism in the geographic academy. “How race takes place.”United StatesAmerica, academia, geography, police brutality, racism
Harney, Stefano and Moten, Fred2013The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.Minor CompositionsBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdfAn exploration of The Undercommons: a liberatory possibility-space in the university and in life practice. Blackness and emancipatory governance.Black studies, Black Radical Tradition, culture, critical scholarship
Harris, Dianne2012Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in AmericaUniversity of Minnesota PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/little-white-housesHow the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era.United StatesAmerica, housing, racism, architecture
Harvardn.d.Covid-19 PM 2.5Quick linkAcademic Workhttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm/homeStudy on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the USUnited States
Harvard GSDn.d.Just City LabQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.designforthejustcity.org/
Harvard GSDn.d.Just City EssaysQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5dfb72697a9837b1f6751b/t/5b7d8b5a88251b1adad06c60/1534954340713/JustCityEssays.pdf
Hinton, Elizabeth2017From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.Book/TextAcademic WorkTracing the rise of mass incarceration in America to Lyndon-era “Great Society” social welfare programs.United StatesAmerica, mass incarceration, prisons, poverty, neoliberalism
Hinton, Elizabeth2020George Floyd’s Death is a Failure of Generations of LeadershipThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/george-floyd-protests-1960s.htmlLearning from misguided US policy decisions in response to 1960s protests. Also learning from the failed War on Poverty; Johnson’s Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) “the first and only time in the history of the United States that grassroots organizations received direct federal funding to transform unequal conditions on their own terms.” (Nixon diffused the OEO).United Statesracism, police brutality, protest
Hirsch, Afua2020The racism that killed George Floyd was built in BritainThe GuardianReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/03/racism-george-floyd-britain-america-uk-black-peopleLinking Geogre Floyd’s death to systemic racism and the dispensability of Black lives worldwide, demonstrated also by the disparity in Covid-19 deaths. Acknowledging Britain’s colonial past and its role in enslavement.George Floyd, Covid-19, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, Public Health, Colonialism, America, United Kingdom
Howard, Neil, and Roberto Forin2019Migrant Workers, ‘Modern Slavery’ and the Politics of Representation in Italian Tomato ProductionEconomy and SocietyJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085147.2019.1672426?journalCode=reso20Representational politics in relation to the production and marketization of Italy's ‘red Gold’, the tomato. Depiction of living and working conditions that are bad, but better than the alternative, and workers who are exploited, but nevertheless understand themselves as consenting to their exploitation.ItalyFoggia, Italy, modern slavery, supply chains, migrant workers
Ibram X. Kendin.d.An Antiracist Reading ListNew York TimesQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
Interboro Partnersn.d.The Arsenal of Exclusion and InclusionQuick linkAcademic Workhttp://www.interboropartners.com/projects/the-arsenal-of-exclusion-inclusion
Isabel Hunter and Lorenzo Di Pietro2017The Terrible Truth about Your Tin of Italian Tomatoes.Reading ListAccessible Articlewww.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/24/the-terrible-truth-about-your-tin-of-italian-tomatoes.Describes the inhumane conditions on tomato farms in Italy and the exploitation of migrant workers. About prosecution of food giants Mutti and Conserve Italia, linked to the death of seasonal labourer Abdullah Muhammed.ItalyItaly, Europe, working conditions, exploitation, migration, food, Abdullah Muhammed
Jaffe, Eric2014The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates the PoorFast CompanyReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.fastcompany.com/3034206/the-hidden-ways-urban-design-segregates-the-poorOn exclusionary design practices like poor doors, inaccessible ‘public’ spaces, surveillance or anti-homeless spikes.Architecture, urban planning, exclusionary design
Jash, Tahnee2020How to learn from Indigenous people about the Black Lives Matter movement in AustraliaABC NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408A collection of resources by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content creators and storytellers, narrating Australia’s silenced history. How storytelling is linked to Black Lives Matter.AustraliaIndigenous people, Indigenous land, Black Lives Matter
Jones, Tobias, and Ayo Awokoya2019Are Your Tinned Tomatoes Picked by Slave Labour?The GuardianReading ListAccessible Articlewww.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy-mafia-migrant-labour-modern-slavery.A long read about the conditions of modern slavery in southern Italian agriculture. Hundreds of thousands of workers from Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia and Eastern Europe are enslaved by gangmasters and have to work and live in inhumane conditions.ItalyModern slavery, working conditions, migration, food industry, mafia, Europe, Italy
Jones, William P2020The Dignity of LaborDissent MagazineReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-dignity-of-laborThe exploitation--despite reification--of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.Covid-19, public health, labor
Kaplan, Victoria.2006Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States.Rowman and Littlefield.Book/TextAcademic Workhttps://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Structural_Inequality.html?id=SmtL1cm0OmYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=falseOn systemic racism in architecture in the U.SUnited StatesAmerica, architecture, racism, critical scholarship
Kelly, Robin D.G.2017What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?Boston ReviewReading ListAccessible Articlehttp://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-what-did-cedric-robinson-mean-racial-capitalismOn the intellectual contributions of Cedric Robinson, who critiqued Marx for failing to understand the racial character of capitalism, the Black Radical Tradition, or categories of class outside of Europe.Capitalism, racial capitalism, Black Radical Tradition, Black Marxism
Klein, Ezra2020Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is HopefulVoxReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21279530/ta-nehisi-coates-ezra-klein-show-george-floyd-police-brutality-trump-bidenEzra Klein in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about parallels and differences between today and 1968.United Statesracism, protest, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Klein, Naomi2007The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.Metropolitan BooksBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tsd_nk.pdfKlein defines disaster capitalism as “orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market opportunities.” Discusses Milton Friedman, Thatcherism, the CIA, Iraq War intervention and other global examplesCapitalism, disaster, critical scholarship
Kolinjivadi, Vijay2020The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisisAl JazeeraReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-outbreak-part-climate-change-emergency-200325135058077.htmlOn the common roots of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.Climate change, Covid-19
Kolinjivadi, Vijay2020This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same songUneven EarthReading ListAccessible Articlehttp://unevenearth.org/2020/04/this-pandemic-is-ecological-breakdown-different-tempo-same-song/Kolinjivadi takes the argument further: fundamentally linking crises of Covid-19, climate, and capitalism.Climate change, Covid-19, capitalism
Lee Jr, Bryan2020America’s Cities Were Designed to OppressCitylabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/06/george-floyd-protest-urban-design-history-racism-architecture/612622/For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned and designed to perpetuate it.” On the Design Justice Movement, which “seeks to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture as a tool of oppression and sees it as an opportunity to envision radically just spaces centered on the liberation of disinherited communities.”United Statesurban planning, Design Justice
Lens, Michael C. and Paavo Monkkonen2015Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated By Income?Journal of the American Planning AssociationJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2015.1111163?journalCode=rjpa20#.VoqIIbYrLrcZoning (density restrictions) drives income segregation; towards planning for inclusionary housing requirements.United StatesAmerica; income segregation, land use regulations, zoning
Lerner, Sharon2020The Coronavirus Pandemic and Police Violence Have Reignited the Fight Against Toxic RacismThe InterceptReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://theintercept.com/2020/06/17/coronavirus-environmental-justice-racism-robert-bullard/In conversation with Robert Bullard: re-launching the National Black Environmental Justice Network in the wake of Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on black communities--and the resurgence of protests against police brutality. “You tell me your zip code, and I can tell you how healthy you are.”United Statesenvironmental justice, police brutality, Covid-19, public health, Robert Bullard, Damu Smith
Lewan, Todd and Dolores Barclay2001When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your FutureLA TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-02-mn-10514-story.htmlThe AP reports on legacies of Black American land loss; sweeping evidence of violent land-taking.United Statesracism, property, land
LSE Sociologyn.d.Open Access CurriculumQuick linkAcademic Workhttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdfon race, space, and architecture
Make the Road NY2020Excluded in the Epicenter: Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis on Working-Class Immigrant, Black, and Brown New YorkersReportAcademic Workhttps://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MRNY_SurveyReport_small.pdfThe report examines in detail the experience of working-class immigrant, Black and Brown New Yorkers during this crisis. Based on a survey of 244 primarily Latinx immigrants across New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, one third of whom are undocumented, it provides striking findings related to the pandemic’s toll on community members’ health, income and work, housing insecurity, and education. The report demands for New York State to advance a true recovery for all by creating a $3.5 million fund for excluded workers, canceling rent, and addressing the public health crisis in the state’s jails and prisons by freeing at-risk detained and incarcerated people.United StatesNew York, America, Covid-19, crisis, migration
Manoeli, Sebabatso C.2020We Have no Harlem in SudanAfrica is a CountryReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://africasacountry.com/2020/06/we-have-no-harlem-in-sudan?fbclid=IwAR15K6OIFSkbtYG8D46axsA1MRaIpPoze5ojW8KsCD2JegdydDjHmfqrlIYArguing that the current global public discourse does not yet adequately include anti-black racism beyond how the West and white settler states experience/theorize it. “The American framework for anti-black racism is rooted in white supremacy, stemming from Europe’s long history of racism and through its imperialist occupations in large parts of the world. However, although this specific prism illuminates anti-black racism in postcolonial cities and countries, it inadvertently conceals it in places with different histories.” To Manoeli, this is damaging: while the world can understand how to fight racism in Harlem and Soweto, it does not have the framework (and as such, the international attention/support) to combat how anti-black racism operates in Sudan.Pan-Africa, White supremacy, police brutality, protest, racism, colonialism, global discourse
Massey, Douglas S2003American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclassHarvard University PressBook/TextAcademic WorkTracing legacies of de jure and de facto segregation in the U.S., and the detrimental impact this has had on Black communities.United StatesAmerica, racism, segregation, neoliberalism, urban planning
Mbao, Wamuwi2020What continuities can be drawn from the murder of Ahmed Timol in apartheid Joburg to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis?Johannesburg Review of BooksReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2020/07/03/what-continuities-can-be-drawn-from-the-murder-of-ahmed-timol-in-apartheid-joburg-to-the-killing-of-george-floyd-in-minneapolis-wamuwi-mbao-unpacks-the-debased-tradition-of-police-murdering-civilians/Assessing what can be learned about histories of police brutality across contexts--from apartheid South Africa to America. Reviewing hidden narratives revealed in The Murder of Ahmed Timol, and asking how this story provides a structure for reckoning with police killings of Black Americans. “The past is buried when people dig in their heels and say ‘nothing will be gained from excavating and uncovering’.”South Africapolice brutality, Ahmed Timol, protest, apartheid
McKibben, Bill2020How Public Opinion Changes for the BetterThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-public-opinion-changes-for-the-betterLongtime climate activist Bill McKibben reflects on waves of public opinion change in the US and what protests against police brutality could mean for the fight against systemic racism. “The video of George Floyd’s death was so stark that it summed up, in an iconic way no witness could avoid understanding, so much of the country’s racial history.” On digital organizing and how to effectively build pressure; also considering what has (and has not) changed since the 1960s.United Statesclimate change, environmental justice, police brutality, protest, public opinion, George Floyd
McKibben, Bill2020Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate are Not Separate IssuesThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible ArticleBill McKibben on the intersectional causes/experiences of racism, police brutality, and climate change. Toward environmental justice.United Statesclimate change, environmental justice, inclusive environmentalism, police brutality, Covid-19
McKittrick, Katherine and Woods, Clide2007Black geographies and the politics of placeBetween the linesBook/TextAcademic WorkCollection of writings on intersections between space and race; cultural property. “Is it even possible that advocating for preserving historic locations can act as a vehicle for social justice and spur community development?”America, Caribbean, Canada
Melosi, Martin V2008The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the PresentUniversity of Pittsburgh PressBook/TextAcademic WorkA comprehensive history of sanitary services in urban America, from The Age of Miasmas, to the Bacteriological revolution, to The New Ecology.United StatesAmerica, sanitation, infrastructure, ecology, public health
Merrifield, Andy2002Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist CityMonthly Review PressBook/TextAcademic WorkMarxist geographer Merrifield explores case studies of Liverpool, Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles. He contextualizes issues like gentrification and development, affordability, government accountability, and policing within the broader political economy of global capitalism.Liverpool, United Kingdom, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York City, America, gentrification, capitalism
Minton, Anna2017Big Capital: Who is London For?Penguin PressBook/TextAcademic WorkMinton details the political and economic forces which produced London’s housing crisis, arguing that austerity is a key driver of inequality.United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, housing, capitalism, neoliberalism, austerity
Misra, Tanvi2016Instead of Trump’s Wall, Why Not a Binational Border City?CitylabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.citylab.com/design/2016/09/instead-of-a-wall-build-a-binational-city-us-mexico-border-trump/499634/Mexican architect Fernando Romero’s vision for a walkable city straddling the U.S.-Mexico border--bridging cultural/political divides.
Link to his practice: Fr-ee
Borders, US-Mexico Border, urban planning
Mitman, Gregg2008Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and LandscapesYale University PressBook/TextAcademic WorkDrawing on environmental, medical, and cultural history and the life stories of people, plants, and insects, Mitman traces how America’s changing environment from the late 1800s to the present day has led to the epidemic growth of allergic disease. Especially see Choking Cities (Chapter 4), on the “ecologies of injustice” which structure urban life.United StatesAmerica, ecology, pollution, public health, environmental justice
National Organization of Minority Architectsn.d.Statement on Racial InjusticeQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://noma.net/nomas-public-statement-regarding-racial-injustice-2020-may-31/United States
New York Timesn.d.Read up on the links between racism and climate changeNew York TimesQuick linkAccessible Article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/05/climate/racism-climate-change-reading-list.htmlRacism, climate change
Nixon, Rob2013Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorHarvard University PressBook/TextAcademic WorkNixon develops framework of slow violence to problematize environmental racism and inequality.Inclusive environmentalism, environmental humanities
Nonko, Emily2016Redlining: How one racist, Depression-era policy still shapes New York real estateBrick UndergroundReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/10/history_of_redliningHistory of redlining and its legacy in New York CityUnited Statesredlining, housing discrimination, segregation, urban planning
NYUn.d.Urban Democracy LabQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://urbandemos.nyu.edu/
NYUn.d.The Latinx ProjectQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/
Oliveri, Federico2017Racialization and Counter-Racialization in Times of Crisis: Taking Migrant Struggles in Italy as a Critical Standpoint on Race.Ethnic and Racial StudiesJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1391404Racialization first as a structural feature of neoliberalism in Italian society, and then as a crisis management strategy in the transition to late neoliberalism. Migrant struggles – for freedom of movement and the right to life, for equality at work, for the right to housing –interpreted as examples of counter-racialization.Italy; racialization, racism, neoliberalism, crisis, migration
Osaka, Shannon2020Tear gas and coronavirus are a ‘recipe for disaster,’ experts warn.GristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/justice/tear-gas-and-coronavirus-are-a-recipe-for-disaster-experts-warn/Examining problematic use of tear gas on protestors, against the backdrop of a respiratory pandemic disproportionately affecting communities which experience environmental racism.United Statesprotest, Covid-19, environmental racism, public health
Packer, George2015The Other FranceThe New YorkerReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-franceOn the racial tensions underpinning the public housing projects of Paris, the French banlieues.FranceHLM, banlieue, public housing, racism
Perera, Jessica2019The London Clearances: Race, Housing and PolicingThe Institute of Race RelationsReportAcademic Workhttp://www.irr.org.uk/app/uploads/2019/02/The-London-Clearances-Race-Housing-and-Policing.pdfDemonstrates how, under policies developed since the 2008 financial crisis and 2011 urban riots, a dangerous symbiosis has been forged between housing policies directed toward the ‘regeneration’ of London’s council housing estates, and new forms of policinUnited KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, austerity, policing, housing, public housing
Peters, Adele2020This Atlanta jail will transform into a center for justice and equityFast CompanyReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.fastcompany.com/90515296/this-atlanta-jail-will-transform-into-a-center-for-justice-and-equity?fbclid=IwAR2AztDuBxLHSq1JHMqLJ-M2nfGBufwSex-vOoM0zGTBzUXHAldql4N4V_QProfiling the makeover of an Atlanta prison, designed by architect Deanna Van Buren who co-founded nonprofit design firm Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. The project will transform into a restorative justice center.United Statesprisons, mass incarceration, restorative justice, Design justice
Picker, G.2017Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban EuropeBook/TextAcademic WorkOn the mechanisms of racial segregation of Romani people in contemporary Europe. Draws parallels between contemporary governance of Romani people in Romania, Italy, France, UK and the practices of colonial spatial governance in Rabat, New Delhi, Addis AbabaEurope, Roma, segregation, racism
Places Journaln.d.Black in DesignQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://placesjournal.org/reading-list/black-in-design/?cn-reloaded=1Reading List
Porter, Amanda2016Decolonizing policing: Indigenous patrols, counter-policing and safetyTheoretical CriminologyJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480615625763Everyday operation and politics of Indigenous patrols, community-run initiatives with formal agendas that focus on keeping young people safe and preventing contact between young people and the state police. Patrols used as a lens through which to critically examine contemporary issues in the policing of Indigenous Australian communities and as a way of exploring what it means to decolonize the institutions and activities of policing.AustraliaNew South Wales, Australia, colonialism, Indigenous peoples, juvenile justice, legal pluralism, policing
Porter, Libby2018Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their historySBSReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/05/09/indigenous-communities-are-reworking-urban-planning-planners-need-accept-theirOn the exclusion of Indigenous Australians from urban areas; towards urban land justice.AustraliaIndigenous people, First Nations Australians, urban planning
Prison Policyn.d.Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for AbolitionistsQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/
Pronczuk, Monika and Megan Specia2020Belgium’s King Sends Letter of Regret Over Colonial Past in CongoThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/europe/belgium-king-congo.html?campaign_id=51&emc=edit_MBE_p_20200701&instance_id=19902&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=97678672&section=topNews&segment_id=32301&te=1&user_id=5235e29b73bd30b16c0d5a261af74e09Reckoning with postcolonial Belgium-DRC relations in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the toppling of monuments to King Leopold II.BelgiumThe Democratic Republic of Congo, colonialism, monuments
Raven, Rakia2016A sinking jail: The environmental disaster that is Rikers IslandGristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/justice/a-sinking-jail-the-environmental-disaster-that-is-rikers-island/The physical and environmental violence (landfill history) of New York CIty’s Rikers Island jail complex.United Statesenvironmental justice, prisons, mass incarceration, Rikers Island
Razack, Sherene2002Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler SocietyBetween the LinesBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://btlbooks.com/book/race-space-and-the-lawExamining the production of spaces through planning and law: hierarchies that emerge from spatial categories. Unmapping drinking establishments, parks, slums, classrooms, urban spaces of prostitution, parliaments, main streets, and borders. “How place becomes race” (Manitoba Court of Appeal Judge).US-Mexico Border, US-Canada Border, Manitoba, Canada, racism, critical scholarship, geography, law
Ricciulli, Valeria2020NYC immigrants fear losing their homes during the pandemicCurbedReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://ny.curbed.com/2020/5/27/21265692/nyc-coronavirus-immigrants-rent-queens-brooklynThe disproportionate impact of the pandemic on communities of color and immigrant New Yorkers, and in particular on housing security as many people are unable to pay rent.United StatesCovid-19, housing, migration
Robinson, Cedric J1983Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical TraditionUniversity of North Carolina PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdfRobinson’s seminal text takes Marx to task for failing to understand the racial character of capitalism, the Black Radical Tradition, or categories of class outside of Europe.Capitalism, Black Radical Tradition, Black Marxism
Rothstein, Richard2017The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated AmericaLiverightBook/TextAcademic WorkA history of residential segregation in AmericaUnited StatesAmerica, segregation, housing, zoning, racism
Roy, Ananya2017Dis/possessive collectivism: property and personhood at city’s end.Geoforum 80Journal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718516302949Roy explores the Chicago Anti-Eviction campaign.United StatesChicago, America, dispossession, property, racial banishment, displacement, collectivism
Roy, Ananya2019Racial BanishmentKeywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50Journal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119558071.ch42Roy develops concept of racial banishment: State‐instituted violence against racialised bodies and communities. Racial banishment as the territorial proliferation of prison logics, manifested in geographies of forced mobility and illegalised presence that stretch far beyond the prison but that are inevitably refracted through the institutions of mass incarceration.United StatesAmerica, mass incarceration, racial banishment, racialization, critical scholarship, white supremacy
Roy, Arundhati2020The Pandemic is a PortalFinancial TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920caArundhati Roy on the global forces that led to the pandemic; the politics at different levels of the Indian state in face of the pandemic; and the devastating effects of both Covid-19 and the lockdown itself across India.IndiaCovid-19, capitalism
RTPIn.d.5 Reasons for Climate Justice in Spatial PlanningRTPIQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.rtpi.org.uk/research/2020/january/five-reasons-for-climate-justice-in-spatial-planning/United Kingdom
Rutten, Koen2020What a planner might learn from the Black Lives Matter movementTown and Country Planning Association BlogReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.tcpa.org.uk/blog/blog-what-a-planner-might-learn-from-the-black-lives-matter-movementThe current planning system in the UK, with its focus on housing numbers and deregulation, cultivates an environment with few people of color in positions of power. Lacking opportunities for participatory, democratic planning reinforces race-based exclusions.United Kingdomurban planning, segregation, public health
Ruzicka, Michal2012Continuity or rupture? Roma/Gypsy communities in rural and urban environments under post-socialismJournal of Rural StudiesJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743016712000204Brief outline of the experience of Czech and Slovak Romani people from 1950s to present, also paying attention to the differentiated experiences between different Romani groups (rural and urban).Czech RepublicCzech Republic and Slovakia; post-socialism, social exclusion, marginalization, Roma/Gypsies.
Sabrina Bazilen.d.Urban Planners as Organizers Toward Liberation: A resource guide and frameworkQuick linkAccessible Article https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGcdwuWLt3zO-MqYU1UIMl7422zEdIKUKEAEtOTSnzk/editUrban planning, abolition
Sacoby WilsonCommunity Engagement, Environmental Justice and HealthQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://sph.umd.edu/laboratory-resources/community-engagement-environmental-justice-and-health-ceejh
Satariano, Adam2010He’s Buying Up Brixton’: Beloved Grocer’s Eviction Sparks Gentrification FightThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/europe/brixton-london-eviction-grocer-nour.htmlThe story of a battle over Nour Cash & Carry, a grocery store in Brixton, London. The iconic shop got an eviction notice, igniting a wave of activism to save Brixton.United Kingdomgentrification, Covid-19, migration
Saviano, Roberto2010Italy's African HeroesThe New York TimesReading ListAccessible ArticleOn a protest of African migrants in the south of Italy against the mafia which controls all economic activity and keeps African migrants in poor working and life conditions, outside of the law’s reach. While protesters are portrayed as criminals, the real criminals are those they rebel against.Italymafia, migration, exploitation
Schneider, Benjamin2019CityLab University: Shared-Equity HomeownershipBloomberg CityLabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/alternative-homeownership-land-trusts-and-co-opsThe article is part of Bloomberg CityLab University. It describes community land trusts and housing co-ops as alternative land- and home-ownership structures that provide benefits traditional markets cannot, but face significant financial and logistical challenges.Community land trust, cooperative housing, homeownership, housing
Sen, Amartya2009The Idea of JusticeHarvard University PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://dutraeconomicus.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/amartya-sen-the-idea-of-justice-2009.pdfAmartya Sen critiques John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice.Critical scholarship, philosophy, law
Shedd, Carla2015Unequal city: race, schools, and perceptions of injusticeRussell Sage FoundationBook/TextAcademic WorkOn racial segregation and its impacts on schoolchildren (race, place, and opportunity) in ChicagoUnited StatesChicago, Illinois, America, racism, segregation, education
Shildrick, Tracy2018Lessons from Grenfell: Poverty propaganda, stigma and class power.The Sociological ReviewJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026118777424This article draws on the example of Grenfell Tower to interrogate issues around poverty, inequality and austerity.United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom, housing, poverty, class
Simpson, Sheryl-Ann, Steil, Justin, and Mehta, Aditi2020Planning Beyond Mass IncarcerationJournal of Planning Education and ResearchJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739456X20915505Relationships between planning and law enforcement. Attention to racial justice including analyzing moments where planning supported and produced injustice, and identifying opportunities to support greater equity, decarceration and even abolition where planning practice, education and research support the creation of systems of safety and care beyond mass incarceration.America, prisons, policing, mass incarceration, urban planning, critical scholarship
Smith, Neil2006There’s No Such Thing as a Natural DisasterSocial Science Research CouncilReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://items.ssrc.org/understanding-katrina/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-natural-disaster/Denaturalizing environmental disaster; identifying how social differentiation is politically produced :Inclusive environmentalism, disaster, critical scholarship
Sorin, Gretchen2020Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil RightsLiverightBook/TextAcademic WorkHow the automobile fundamentally changed African-American life. Against the historical backdrop of restrictions on Black movement, Sorin positions the car as a device for freedom and social networking. She discusses Green Book, a travel guide “which helped grant black Americans that most basic American rite, the family vacation.” Sorin weaves photos, along with her own family history, throughout.America, cars, transportation, racism
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committeen.d.1969: Fannie Lou Hamer Founds Freedom Farm CooperativeReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/A history of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative.Freedom farms, food, collective land ownership
Suzuki, David2020Rethinking roads can drive down species declineStraight.comReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.straight.com/news/david-suzuki-rethinking-roads-can-drive-down-species-declineRethinking Canadian road-wildlife relations during Covid-19 lockdown.CanadaCovid-19, climate change, urban planning
Suzuki, David2020Returning to normal after pandemic isn’t good enoughChek NewsReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://cheknews.ca/david-suzuki-returning-to-normal-after-pandemic-isnt-good-enough-67242David Suzuki argues that tackling the pandemic is a start to addressing other crises like climate disruption and species extinction.CanadaCovid-19, climate change
Sze, Julie2006Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental JusticeMIT PressBook/TextAcademic WorkOn community-based environmental activism across underserved NYC boroughsNew York City, America, environmental justice, pollution
Tayob, Huda and Hall, Suzanne2019Race, space and architecture: towards an open-access curriculumLondon School of Economics and Political Science, Department of SociologyReportAcademic Workhttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdfThis project asks what a curriculum on space-making and race-making might look like with architecture and the designed world as a key reference point. At the project’s core is an understanding of racialization as a process of violent displacement - of person, of land, of future - simultaneously with an emplacement through citizenship status, territory, built objects and knowledge forms. Three key questions 1) What are the spatial contours of capitalism that produce racial hierarchy and injustice? 2) What are the inventive repertoires of refusal, resistance and re-making that are neither reduced to nor exhausted by racial capitalism, and how are they spatialized? 3) How is ‘race’ configured differently across space, and how can a more expansive understanding of entangled world space broaden our imagination for teaching and learning?Education, Race, Space, Architecture
The Baltimore Housing Roundtable2016Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development Without Displacement.Partners for Dignity and RightsReportAcademic Workhttps://dignityandrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CLT_web-copy.pdfOf the 50 largest cities in the United States, Baltimore has moved to 15th in terms of census tracts that have gentrified. On the development and segregation of Baltimore; forging an answer through community land trusts and community-driven development.United StatesBaltimore, Maryland, America, segregation, community land trust
The Senate2006Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wagesStanding Committee on Legal and Constitutional AffairReportAcademic Workhttps://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/legal_and_constitutional_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/stolen_wages/report/indexThe terms of reference for this inquiry relate to 'Indigenous workers whose paid labour was controlled by Government'. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, governments put in place extensive controls over the employment, working conditions and wages of Indigenous workers. These controls permitted, both explicitly and implicitly, the non-payment of wages to some Indigenous workers, as well as the underpayment of wages, and the diversion of wages into trust and savings accounts.Australia, Aboriginality, First Nations Australians, stolen wages
The Syllabusn.d.Coronavirus ReadingsThe SyllabusQuick linkAccessible Article https://covid19syllabus.substack.com/comprehensive lists of work engaging the politics of the unfolding pandemicCovid-19
Thomas, Destiny2020Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives.CityLabReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/06/open-streets-transportation-planning-urban-design-racism/612763/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=citylabOn how pandemic-induced pedestrian street redesigns can deepen inequity and mistrust in disenfranchised communities.United StatesUrban planning, racism
Thompson, Claire Elise2020Why racial justice is climate justiceGristReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://grist.org/fix/combatting-climate-change-covid-19-and-systemic-injustice-on-the-same-front/On why disasters are never colorblind; words from EJ activists on what to do.United Statesenvironmental justice, police brutality, climate change, disaster
UBCn.d.Reading List of Black GeographersQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.geog.ubc.ca/a-reading-list-of-black-geographers/
UCL/Hutchins (Harvard)n.d.Legacies of British Slave Ownership ProjectQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
UCLAn.d.Institute on Inequality and DemocracyQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/work on housing justice; policing and incarceration
University of Pennsylvanian.d.Covid x ClimateQuick linkAcademic Workhttps://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/experiments/covid-x-climate?fbclid=IwAR3QKP9ZkWFIFBMgCvNYo8sq7hpeddSG3VuZGZBcula1kodKWREvGM5mGGg
Urban Omnibusn.d.The Location of JusticeQuick linkAccessible Article https://urbanomnibus.net/2017/11/map-location-justice/Architectural League NY on carceral infrastructure throughout New York CityUrban planning, prisons
Velasco, Gabriella2020How Community Land Trusts Can Advance Racial and Economic JusticeHousing Matters: an Urban Institute InitiativeReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-community-land-trusts-can-advance-racial-and-economic-justiceExploring Community Land Trusts as a tool to shift leadership, power, and decision-making to residents and equip communities with more resources to combat gentrification and displacement.Community land trusts, gentrification urban planning, Design Justice
Wallace, Rob2006Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of ScienceMonthly Review PressBook/TextAcademic WorkOn agribusiness and shocks in the industrial, global food system which breed diseases in humansfood, capitalism, supply chains
Wang, R., Cahen, C., Acolin, A. and Walter R. J.2019Tracking Growth and Evaluating Performance of Shared Equity Homeownership Programs During Housing Market FluctuationsLincoln Institute of Land PolicyReportAcademic Workhttps://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/tracking-growth-evaluating-performance-shared-equity-homeownershipFindings from this study not only confirm that shared equity models provide affordable homeownership to lower income families generation after generation, but also establish that the sector provides financial security and mitigates risks for homeowners facing housing market turmoil.United StatesAmerica, shared equity, homeownership, affordability
Waquant, Loïc2007Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced MarginalityPolity PressBook/TextAcademic WorkComparing the “inner city” of Chicago and the “outer city” of Paris. In both cases, sociologist Waquant articulate’s the state’s role in producing class, race, and place.Chicago, Illinois, America, Paris, France, banlieue, class, racism
Waquant, Loïc2009Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social InsecurityDuke University PressBook/TextAcademic Workhttps://libcom.org/files/Lo%C3%AFc%20Wacquant%20-%20Punishing%20the%20Poor.pdfWaquant considers America as “living laboratory of neoliberal failure,” framing the crisis of the welfare state as the “irruption of the penal state.”United StatesAmerica, neoliberalism, capitalism, poverty, policing
Washington, Hariet2008Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to PresentBook/TextAcademic WorkA lengthy history of medical experimentation on African Americans.United StatesAmerica, apartheid, racism, scientific racism, public health
Wensing, E. & Porter, L2016Unsettling planning's paradigms: towards a just accommodation of Indigenous rights and interests in Australian urban planning?Australian PlannerJournal ArticleAcademic Workhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07293682.2015.1118394Planning persistently renders Aboriginal people invisible, and perpetuates colonial dispossession. Article highlights need to understand how Australian cities and towns can be understood as Aboriginal places, and the contemporary ways in which Aboriginal people are seeking recognition of their rights in cities and towns through processes like native title claims and determinations.AustraliaAustralia, Aboriginality, Indigenous land, urban planning
Wilkins, Craig2020It’s Time for Architects to Accept ResponsibilityCurbedReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.curbed.com/2020/7/21/21331734/architecture-equity-black-lives-matter-craig-wilkinsCraig L. Wilkins argues for an urgent reckoning from the architectural field, reflecting on why it does not have a Hippocratic Oath, like medicine. “There has to be some statement that architects don’t just work for the highest bidder.”Architecture, racism, solidarity, critical scholarship
Wilkins, Craig L2007The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and MusicUniversity of Minnesota press.Book/TextAcademic WorkHow African Americans are marginalized within the architectural field; how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communitiesUnited StatesAmerica, architecture, racism, critical scholarship
Williams, Finn and David Chipperfield2020Boris Johnson is wrong to blame the housing crisis on overregulationThe GuardianReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/11/boris-johnson-wrong-housing-crisis-overregulationHow Boris Johnson’s plan to “build, build, build” the UK out of the coronavirus pandemic “shows a frightening misunderstanding of planning and infrastructure.”United KingdomBoris Johnson, housing, urban planning
Yancy, Roy2020Judith Butler: Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its DisparitiesTruthoutReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://truthout.org/articles/judith-butler-mourning-is-a-political-act-amid-the-pandemic-and-its-disparities/In conversation with theorist Judith Butler about lessons to be gleaned from the pandemic.Covid-19, critical scholarship
Zalta, Michael2020Beyond the Critical Framework of Ashkenormativity: Reimagining Jewish Solidarity and Klal IsraelZaman CollectiveReading ListAccessible Articlehttps://www.zamancollective.com/all-posts/michaelbeyondashkenormativity?fbclid=IwAR0HoaTerJtRxP9YWvjPF0WE0Glu4huYGN-qv7EaO5fB_MmO3p_4E3rTOSMThinking beyond familiar modes of solidarity, reflecting on Ashkenormativity in Jewish community spaces, and imagining a new Jewish Commons.IsraelJewish Commons, Ashkenormativity, solidarity