Author | Year of Publication | Title | Source | Source Format | Style | Link | Summary | Country | Keyword |
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ABC | n.d. | Resource Guide: Engaging with Indigenous Content | ABC | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408 | Australia, Aboriginality | ||
Agyeman, Julian | 2012 | Just sustainabilities. | Blog, Julian Agyeman | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 Boone | 2020 | Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation—Is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? | The Conversation | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://theconversation.com/land-loss-has-plagued-black-america-since-emancipation-is-it-time-to-look-again-at-black-commons-and-collective-ownership-140514 | Context 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 States | America, reparations, land, black commons, collective land ownership, freedom farms, homeownership, property, redlining, restrictive covenants. |
Agyeman, Julian, Caitlin Matthews and Hannah Sobel | 2017 | Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://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 Evans | 2002 | Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity | Space and Polity | Journal Article | Academic Work | The issue of environmental equity is inextricably tied to that of human equality at all scales. Exploring different traditions, approaches of environmental justice | inclusive environmentalism, environmental justice, just sustainabilities | ||
Ajani, Ashia | 2020 | Making it Easier to Breathe.” | Sierra Mag | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/making-it-easier-breathe?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sierramag&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3ppgn7taJs9FuQuehdYJ_WOLIKOmInKr6NsgJjTJ4KwHiv4UEXFGtj-O4 | On 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, Michelle | 2010 | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | The New Press. | Book/Text | Academic Work | Alexander 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 States | America, mass incarceration, policing, racism, drug policy, Jim Crow | |
Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman | 2011 | Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability | The MIT Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://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 States | America, food, food justice, environmental justice, racism, class, sustainability, public health |
American Institute of Architects | n.d. | 50 Years After Whitney Young, Jr | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.50yearsafterwhitneyyoung.org/introduction-aia-and-whitney-young | ||||
Andrews, Eve | 2020 | A River Runs Through It: Southern California’s coastal and mountainous regions face the same, fickle climate enemy. | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | San Diego, California, America, Tijuana, Mexico, US-Mexico border, climate change, coastal cities, Indigenous land |
Angotti, Tom and Morse, Sylvia | 2017 | Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City | Terreform Urban Research. | Book/Text | Academic 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 States | New York City, America, zoning, urban planning, gentrification | |
Anthony, Thalia and Stephen Gray | 2020 | Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate. | SBS News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.sbs.com.au/news/was-there-slavery-in-australia-yes-it-shouldn-t-even-be-up-for-debate | Legal 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. | Australia | Australia, First Nations Australians, slavery |
Architectural League NY | n.d. | Statement and Resources on Race and Architecture | Quick link | Academic Work | https://archleague.org/the-architectural-leagues-statement-on-racial-justice/ | ||||
Association of American Geographers | n.d. | tribute to Harold M. Rose | Quick link | Academic Work | http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/tributes_memorials/mr/rose_harold | ||||
Bagley, Katherine | 2020 | Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the Coronavirus | Yale Environment 360 | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://e360.yale.edu/features/connecting-the-dots-between-environmental-injustice-and-the-coronavirus | EJ 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 States | America, Detroit, Environmental justice, Covid-19 |
Bailey, Philip M. and Tessa Duvall | 2020 | Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say | Courier Journal | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Louisville, Kentucky, America, Breonna Taylor, police brutality, gentrification, community land trust |
Baker, Mike and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Manny Fernandez and Michael LaForgia | 2020 | Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe. | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu | The New York Times finds 70 cases over the past decade of American people dying in police custody after saying, “I cant breathe.” | United States | America, police brutality, racism |
Barry, Ellen | 2020 | 7 Lessons (And Warnings) From Those Who Marched With Dr. King. | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/george-floyd-protests.html | Organizers who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on the George Floyd protests. | United States | America, protest, racism, George Floyd, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
Bennhold, Katrin and Melissa Eddy | 2020 | In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy is an Essential Part of Police Training. | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/germany-police.html | Learning from the overhauls of policing in Germany, after World War II. How cadets are taught shameful Nazi legacies, to prompt meaningful institutional reform. | Germany | Germany, policing, institutional memory, reform |
Berkeley Black Geographies | n.d. | The Berkeley Black Geographies project | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.theblackgeographic.com/berkeley-black-geographies | ||||
Bethea, Sally | 2020 | Above the Waterline: the convergence of the civil rights and environmental justice movements. | Atlanta In Town Paper | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Warren County, North Carolina, America, environmental justice, racism, protest |
Bronin, Sara C. | 2020 | In fight for justice, zoning laws that exclude low-income people must be changed | Courier Journal | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, zoning, urban planning |
Brooks-LaSure, Allyn | 2020 | Your Confederacy is Choking my People. | The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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-RgNWoNcD27xCxSRRkc | Tracing legacies of racial apartheid in the U.S., arguing that the confederacy cannot exist within a pluralistic America. | United States | America, confederacy, monuments, racism, apartheid, protest |
Brown, Aleen | 2020 | Inside Rikers: An Account of the Virus-Stricken Jail from a Man Who Managed to Get Out | The Intercept | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, New York City, Rikers Island, prisons, Covid-19 |
Butler, Tamika | 2020 | Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes. | Bicycling Magazine | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32783551/cycling-talk-fight-racism/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflowTWBI | On race and cycling: Relationship between bike lanes and gentrification; marketing strategies which assume cisgender white maleness as the norm. | United States | America, Los Angeles, cycling, urban planning, racism |
Canadian Urban Institute | n.d. | How do we respond to anti-black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.canurb.org/new-blog-1/2020/6/10/how-do-we-respond-to-anti-black-racism-in-urbanist-practices-and-conversations | linked panel moderated by placemaker Jay Pitter | |||
Carmody, Rebecca | 2019 | The little-known story of when Perth banned Indigenous people from the city and suburbs. | ABC News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-29/when-perth-banned-aboriginal-people-from-the-city/11818540 | History of Indigenous Ban in Perth, where Aboriginal populations were not allowed without a Native Pass from 1927-1954. | Australia | Australia, Perth, zoning, segregation, First Nations Australians, racism |
Carpenter, Zoe | 2020 | Will Covid-19 be a turning point in the fight against racial disparities in health care? | The Nation | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, America, Covid-19, racism, public health |
Chapman, Isabelle and Drew Kann | 2020 | For some environmentalists, ‘I can’t breathe’ is about more than police brutality. | CNN | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/environmental-racism-explainer-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2ptq-mjAFELpUMs9oxKh1YYu76oHD2kHcgRNKwlV-wYByxesjjPKfsEl8 | Connections 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 States | America, environmental justice, air pollution, public health, racism |
Chayka, Kyle | 2020 | How the Coronavirus will reshape architecture | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architecture | Exploring 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 D | 2019 | How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived | Hyperallergic | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | New York, America, culture, community organizing, urban renewal, redlining, racism |
Christ, Meehan | 2020 | What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html | Exploring 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-Nehisi | 2014 | The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, Jim Crow, racism, reparations, contract buying, redlining |
Coates, Ta-Nehisi | 2017 | My President Was Black | The Atlantic | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, racism, culture |
Colomina, Beatriz | 2018 | X-Ray Architecture | Lars Muller Publishers | Book/Text | Academic Work | Explores 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 GSAPP | n.d. | Unlearning Whiteness | Quick link | Academic Work | https://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site/ | ||||
Crenshaw, Kimberlé and Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas | 1995 | Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement | The New Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Progressive theories on law, race, and racial power; critical intersections between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. | Racism, critical scholarship | ||
Curbed | n.d. | 5 essential books on making cities anti-racist | Curbed | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://www.curbed.com/2020/6/5/21281828/5-essential-books-for-designing-equitable-cities | Racism, urban planning | ||
Daniella Fergusson | n.d. | Inclusive Urbanism Reading List | Medium | Quick link | Academic Work | https://medium.com/@daniella.fergusson/anti-racist-urbanism-reading-list-1846f8c7b57f | |||
Fataar, Rashiq and Brett Petzer | 2014 | Cape Town’s Anti-Apartheid Urban Plan | Next City | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://nextcity.org/features/view/cape-towns-anti-apartheid-urban-plan | Spatial segregation of Cape Town under Grand Apartheid; democratization of its central rail terminal, which formerly concretized apartheid ideology. | South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa, apartheid, architecture, racism, segregation, urban planning |
Felber, Garrett | 2020 | The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not New | Boston Review | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://bostonreview.net/race/garrett-felber-struggle-abolish-police-not-new?fbclid=IwAR2ll7rHBgfB0ZOLeU3MJEFCWODdJodCwcjhGPlK6SdCzeP7iM1WkgsKMpg | A history of abolitionism (rather than reform) in American civil rights/policing activism | United States | America, racism, policing, abolition |
Finley, Mary Lou | 2016 | Inside the Contract Buyers League’s fight against housing discrimination | Chicago Reporter | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Chicago, America, housing discrimination, contract buying, racism |
Florido, Adrian | 2011 | How Segregation Defined San Diego’s Neighborhoods | Voice of San Diego | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/neighborhoods/how-segregation-defined-san-diegos-neighborhoods/ | History of restrictive covenants and neighborhood segregation in San Diego, California. | United States | San Diego, California, America, restrictive covenants, housing discrimination, segregation, property |
Gardener, Beth | 2020 | Unequal impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change | Yale Environment 360 | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-change | Elizabeth 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 States | America, environmental justice, just transition, capitalism, racism, public health |
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson | 2007 | Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California | University of California Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Political economy of prisons in California. Abolition geography; prisons as spatial fix. | United States | California, America, carceral geography, capitalism, abolition | |
Goldsmiths | n.d. | Forensic Architecture | Quick link | Academic Work | https://forensic-architecture.org/ | ||||
Goldstein, Eric A | n.d. | NYC Council Must Restore Funds for Community Composting | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nrdc.org/experts/eric-goldstein/nyc-council-must-restore-funds-community-composting?fbclid=IwAR3y_Cu_67oictyz_0Z4bfx2ceV2popQ54ZbqHwurWGf4nqV52_6M_ftKBE | New York City Environment Director Eric A. Goldstein on the importance of community composting. | United States | New York City, America, climate change, community composting | |
Gongadze, Salome | 2020 | Four months on: looking back at the COVID-19 epidemic in London | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, Covid-19, racism, BAME communities, environmental justice | |
Gonnerman, Jennifer | 2014 | Before the Law | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law | Centering 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 States | New York City, America, Rikers Island, Kalief Browder, bail, prisons, mass incarceration, juvenile justice, racism |
GSAPP Black Students Alliance | n.d. | On the futility of listening | Quick link | Academic Work | https://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/ | ||||
Hamilton, Aretina R | 2020 | The Geography of Despair (or All These Rubber Bullets) | Medium | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://medium.com/@blackgeographer/the-geography-of-despair-or-all-these-rubber-bullets-6f6d711159f5 | Dr. Aretina R. Hamilton on institutional racism in the geographic academy. “How race takes place.” | United States | America, academia, geography, police brutality, racism |
Harney, Stefano and Moten, Fred | 2013 | The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. | Minor Compositions | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf | An 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, Dianne | 2012 | Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America | University of Minnesota Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/little-white-houses | How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era. | United States | America, housing, racism, architecture |
Harvard | n.d. | Covid-19 PM 2.5 | Quick link | Academic Work | https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm/home | Study on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the US | United States | ||
Harvard GSD | n.d. | Just City Lab | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.designforthejustcity.org/ | ||||
Harvard GSD | n.d. | Just City Essays | Quick link | Academic Work | https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5dfb72697a9837b1f6751b/t/5b7d8b5a88251b1adad06c60/1534954340713/JustCityEssays.pdf | ||||
Hinton, Elizabeth | 2017 | From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. | Book/Text | Academic Work | Tracing the rise of mass incarceration in America to Lyndon-era “Great Society” social welfare programs. | United States | America, mass incarceration, prisons, poverty, neoliberalism | ||
Hinton, Elizabeth | 2020 | George Floyd’s Death is a Failure of Generations of Leadership | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/george-floyd-protests-1960s.html | Learning 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 States | racism, police brutality, protest |
Hirsch, Afua | 2020 | The racism that killed George Floyd was built in Britain | The Guardian | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/03/racism-george-floyd-britain-america-uk-black-people | Linking 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 Forin | 2019 | Migrant Workers, ‘Modern Slavery’ and the Politics of Representation in Italian Tomato Production | Economy and Society | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085147.2019.1672426?journalCode=reso20 | Representational 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. | Italy | Foggia, Italy, modern slavery, supply chains, migrant workers |
Ibram X. Kendi | n.d. | An Antiracist Reading List | New York Times | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html | |||
Interboro Partners | n.d. | The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion | Quick link | Academic Work | http://www.interboropartners.com/projects/the-arsenal-of-exclusion-inclusion | ||||
Isabel Hunter and Lorenzo Di Pietro | 2017 | The Terrible Truth about Your Tin of Italian Tomatoes. | Reading List | Accessible Article | www.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. | Italy | Italy, Europe, working conditions, exploitation, migration, food, Abdullah Muhammed | |
Jaffe, Eric | 2014 | The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates the Poor | Fast Company | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.fastcompany.com/3034206/the-hidden-ways-urban-design-segregates-the-poor | On exclusionary design practices like poor doors, inaccessible ‘public’ spaces, surveillance or anti-homeless spikes. | Architecture, urban planning, exclusionary design | |
Jash, Tahnee | 2020 | How to learn from Indigenous people about the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia | ABC News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408 | A 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. | Australia | Indigenous people, Indigenous land, Black Lives Matter |
Jones, Tobias, and Ayo Awokoya | 2019 | Are Your Tinned Tomatoes Picked by Slave Labour? | The Guardian | Reading List | Accessible Article | www.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. | Italy | Modern slavery, working conditions, migration, food industry, mafia, Europe, Italy |
Jones, William P | 2020 | The Dignity of Labor | Dissent Magazine | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-dignity-of-labor | The exploitation--despite reification--of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. | Covid-19, public health, labor | |
Kaplan, Victoria. | 2006 | Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States. | Rowman and Littlefield. | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Structural_Inequality.html?id=SmtL1cm0OmYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false | On systemic racism in architecture in the U.S | United States | America, architecture, racism, critical scholarship |
Kelly, Robin D.G. | 2017 | What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism? | Boston Review | Reading List | Accessible Article | http://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-what-did-cedric-robinson-mean-racial-capitalism | On 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, Ezra | 2020 | Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is Hopeful | Vox | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21279530/ta-nehisi-coates-ezra-klein-show-george-floyd-police-brutality-trump-biden | Ezra Klein in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about parallels and differences between today and 1968. | United States | racism, protest, Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Klein, Naomi | 2007 | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. | Metropolitan Books | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tsd_nk.pdf | Klein 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 examples | Capitalism, disaster, critical scholarship | |
Kolinjivadi, Vijay | 2020 | The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis | Al Jazeera | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-outbreak-part-climate-change-emergency-200325135058077.html | On the common roots of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. | Climate change, Covid-19 | |
Kolinjivadi, Vijay | 2020 | This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song | Uneven Earth | Reading List | Accessible Article | http://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, Bryan | 2020 | America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress | Citylab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | urban planning, Design Justice |
Lens, Michael C. and Paavo Monkkonen | 2015 | Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated By Income? | Journal of the American Planning Association | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2015.1111163?journalCode=rjpa20#.VoqIIbYrLrc | Zoning (density restrictions) drives income segregation; towards planning for inclusionary housing requirements. | United States | America; income segregation, land use regulations, zoning |
Lerner, Sharon | 2020 | The Coronavirus Pandemic and Police Violence Have Reignited the Fight Against Toxic Racism | The Intercept | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | environmental justice, police brutality, Covid-19, public health, Robert Bullard, Damu Smith |
Lewan, Todd and Dolores Barclay | 2001 | When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your Future | LA Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-02-mn-10514-story.html | The AP reports on legacies of Black American land loss; sweeping evidence of violent land-taking. | United States | racism, property, land |
LSE Sociology | n.d. | Open Access Curriculum | Quick link | Academic Work | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdf | on race, space, and architecture | |||
Make the Road NY | 2020 | Excluded in the Epicenter: Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis on Working-Class Immigrant, Black, and Brown New Yorkers | Report | Academic Work | https://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MRNY_SurveyReport_small.pdf | The 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 States | New York, America, Covid-19, crisis, migration | |
Manoeli, Sebabatso C. | 2020 | We Have no Harlem in Sudan | Africa is a Country | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/we-have-no-harlem-in-sudan?fbclid=IwAR15K6OIFSkbtYG8D46axsA1MRaIpPoze5ojW8KsCD2JegdydDjHmfqrlIY | Arguing 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 S | 2003 | American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclass | Harvard University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Tracing legacies of de jure and de facto segregation in the U.S., and the detrimental impact this has had on Black communities. | United States | America, racism, segregation, neoliberalism, urban planning | |
Mbao, Wamuwi | 2020 | What continuities can be drawn from the murder of Ahmed Timol in apartheid Joburg to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis? | Johannesburg Review of Books | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 Africa | police brutality, Ahmed Timol, protest, apartheid |
McKibben, Bill | 2020 | How Public Opinion Changes for the Better | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-public-opinion-changes-for-the-better | Longtime 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 States | climate change, environmental justice, police brutality, protest, public opinion, George Floyd |
McKibben, Bill | 2020 | Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate are Not Separate Issues | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | Bill McKibben on the intersectional causes/experiences of racism, police brutality, and climate change. Toward environmental justice. | United States | climate change, environmental justice, inclusive environmentalism, police brutality, Covid-19 | |
McKittrick, Katherine and Woods, Clide | 2007 | Black geographies and the politics of place | Between the lines | Book/Text | Academic Work | Collection 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 V | 2008 | The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present | University of Pittsburgh Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | A comprehensive history of sanitary services in urban America, from The Age of Miasmas, to the Bacteriological revolution, to The New Ecology. | United States | America, sanitation, infrastructure, ecology, public health | |
Merrifield, Andy | 2002 | Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City | Monthly Review Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Marxist 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, Anna | 2017 | Big Capital: Who is London For? | Penguin Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Minton details the political and economic forces which produced London’s housing crisis, arguing that austerity is a key driver of inequality. | United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, housing, capitalism, neoliberalism, austerity | |
Misra, Tanvi | 2016 | Instead of Trump’s Wall, Why Not a Binational Border City? | Citylab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, Gregg | 2008 | Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes | Yale University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Drawing 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 States | America, ecology, pollution, public health, environmental justice | |
National Organization of Minority Architects | n.d. | Statement on Racial Injustice | Quick link | Academic Work | https://noma.net/nomas-public-statement-regarding-racial-injustice-2020-may-31/ | United States | |||
New York Times | n.d. | Read up on the links between racism and climate change | New York Times | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/05/climate/racism-climate-change-reading-list.html | Racism, climate change | ||
Nixon, Rob | 2013 | Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor | Harvard University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Nixon develops framework of slow violence to problematize environmental racism and inequality. | Inclusive environmentalism, environmental humanities | ||
Nonko, Emily | 2016 | Redlining: How one racist, Depression-era policy still shapes New York real estate | Brick Underground | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/10/history_of_redlining | History of redlining and its legacy in New York City | United States | redlining, housing discrimination, segregation, urban planning |
NYU | n.d. | Urban Democracy Lab | Quick link | Academic Work | https://urbandemos.nyu.edu/ | ||||
NYU | n.d. | The Latinx Project | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/ | ||||
Oliveri, Federico | 2017 | Racialization and Counter-Racialization in Times of Crisis: Taking Migrant Struggles in Italy as a Critical Standpoint on Race. | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1391404 | Racialization 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, Shannon | 2020 | Tear gas and coronavirus are a ‘recipe for disaster,’ experts warn. | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | protest, Covid-19, environmental racism, public health |
Packer, George | 2015 | The Other France | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-france | On the racial tensions underpinning the public housing projects of Paris, the French banlieues. | France | HLM, banlieue, public housing, racism |
Perera, Jessica | 2019 | The London Clearances: Race, Housing and Policing | The Institute of Race Relations | Report | Academic Work | http://www.irr.org.uk/app/uploads/2019/02/The-London-Clearances-Race-Housing-and-Policing.pdf | Demonstrates 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 policin | United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, austerity, policing, housing, public housing |
Peters, Adele | 2020 | This Atlanta jail will transform into a center for justice and equity | Fast Company | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.fastcompany.com/90515296/this-atlanta-jail-will-transform-into-a-center-for-justice-and-equity?fbclid=IwAR2AztDuBxLHSq1JHMqLJ-M2nfGBufwSex-vOoM0zGTBzUXHAldql4N4V_Q | Profiling 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 States | prisons, mass incarceration, restorative justice, Design justice |
Picker, G. | 2017 | Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe | Book/Text | Academic Work | On 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 Ababa | Europe, Roma, segregation, racism | |||
Places Journal | n.d. | Black in Design | Quick link | Academic Work | https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/black-in-design/?cn-reloaded=1 | Reading List | |||
Porter, Amanda | 2016 | Decolonizing policing: Indigenous patrols, counter-policing and safety | Theoretical Criminology | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480615625763 | Everyday 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. | Australia | New South Wales, Australia, colonialism, Indigenous peoples, juvenile justice, legal pluralism, policing |
Porter, Libby | 2018 | Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their history | SBS | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/05/09/indigenous-communities-are-reworking-urban-planning-planners-need-accept-their | On the exclusion of Indigenous Australians from urban areas; towards urban land justice. | Australia | Indigenous people, First Nations Australians, urban planning |
Prison Policy | n.d. | Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/ | ||||
Pronczuk, Monika and Megan Specia | 2020 | Belgium’s King Sends Letter of Regret Over Colonial Past in Congo | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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®i_id=97678672§ion=topNews&segment_id=32301&te=1&user_id=5235e29b73bd30b16c0d5a261af74e09 | Reckoning with postcolonial Belgium-DRC relations in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the toppling of monuments to King Leopold II. | Belgium | The Democratic Republic of Congo, colonialism, monuments |
Raven, Rakia | 2016 | A sinking jail: The environmental disaster that is Rikers Island | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | environmental justice, prisons, mass incarceration, Rikers Island |
Razack, Sherene | 2002 | Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society | Between the Lines | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://btlbooks.com/book/race-space-and-the-law | Examining 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, Valeria | 2020 | NYC immigrants fear losing their homes during the pandemic | Curbed | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://ny.curbed.com/2020/5/27/21265692/nyc-coronavirus-immigrants-rent-queens-brooklyn | The 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 States | Covid-19, housing, migration |
Robinson, Cedric J | 1983 | Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition | University of North Carolina Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdf | Robinson’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, Richard | 2017 | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America | Liveright | Book/Text | Academic Work | A history of residential segregation in America | United States | America, segregation, housing, zoning, racism | |
Roy, Ananya | 2017 | Dis/possessive collectivism: property and personhood at city’s end. | Geoforum 80 | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718516302949 | Roy explores the Chicago Anti-Eviction campaign. | United States | Chicago, America, dispossession, property, racial banishment, displacement, collectivism |
Roy, Ananya | 2019 | Racial Banishment | Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119558071.ch42 | Roy 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 States | America, mass incarceration, racial banishment, racialization, critical scholarship, white supremacy |
Roy, Arundhati | 2020 | The Pandemic is a Portal | Financial Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca | Arundhati 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. | India | Covid-19, capitalism |
RTPI | n.d. | 5 Reasons for Climate Justice in Spatial Planning | RTPI | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.rtpi.org.uk/research/2020/january/five-reasons-for-climate-justice-in-spatial-planning/ | United Kingdom | ||
Rutten, Koen | 2020 | What a planner might learn from the Black Lives Matter movement | Town and Country Planning Association Blog | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.tcpa.org.uk/blog/blog-what-a-planner-might-learn-from-the-black-lives-matter-movement | The 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 Kingdom | urban planning, segregation, public health |
Ruzicka, Michal | 2012 | Continuity or rupture? Roma/Gypsy communities in rural and urban environments under post-socialism | Journal of Rural Studies | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743016712000204 | Brief 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 Republic | Czech Republic and Slovakia; post-socialism, social exclusion, marginalization, Roma/Gypsies. |
Sabrina Bazile | n.d. | Urban Planners as Organizers Toward Liberation: A resource guide and framework | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGcdwuWLt3zO-MqYU1UIMl7422zEdIKUKEAEtOTSnzk/edit | Urban planning, abolition | |||
Sacoby Wilson | Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health | Quick link | Academic Work | https://sph.umd.edu/laboratory-resources/community-engagement-environmental-justice-and-health-ceejh | |||||
Satariano, Adam | 2010 | He’s Buying Up Brixton’: Beloved Grocer’s Eviction Sparks Gentrification Fight | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/europe/brixton-london-eviction-grocer-nour.html | The 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 Kingdom | gentrification, Covid-19, migration |
Saviano, Roberto | 2010 | Italy's African Heroes | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | On 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. | Italy | mafia, migration, exploitation | |
Schneider, Benjamin | 2019 | CityLab University: Shared-Equity Homeownership | Bloomberg CityLab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/alternative-homeownership-land-trusts-and-co-ops | The 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, Amartya | 2009 | The Idea of Justice | Harvard University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://dutraeconomicus.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/amartya-sen-the-idea-of-justice-2009.pdf | Amartya Sen critiques John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. | Critical scholarship, philosophy, law | |
Shedd, Carla | 2015 | Unequal city: race, schools, and perceptions of injustice | Russell Sage Foundation | Book/Text | Academic Work | On racial segregation and its impacts on schoolchildren (race, place, and opportunity) in Chicago | United States | Chicago, Illinois, America, racism, segregation, education | |
Shildrick, Tracy | 2018 | Lessons from Grenfell: Poverty propaganda, stigma and class power. | The Sociological Review | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026118777424 | This article draws on the example of Grenfell Tower to interrogate issues around poverty, inequality and austerity. | United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, housing, poverty, class |
Simpson, Sheryl-Ann, Steil, Justin, and Mehta, Aditi | 2020 | Planning Beyond Mass Incarceration | Journal of Planning Education and Research | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739456X20915505 | Relationships 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, Neil | 2006 | There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster | Social Science Research Council | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, Gretchen | 2020 | Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights | Liveright | Book/Text | Academic Work | How 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 Committee | n.d. | 1969: Fannie Lou Hamer Founds Freedom Farm Cooperative | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, David | 2020 | Rethinking roads can drive down species decline | Straight.com | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.straight.com/news/david-suzuki-rethinking-roads-can-drive-down-species-decline | Rethinking Canadian road-wildlife relations during Covid-19 lockdown. | Canada | Covid-19, climate change, urban planning |
Suzuki, David | 2020 | Returning to normal after pandemic isn’t good enough | Chek News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://cheknews.ca/david-suzuki-returning-to-normal-after-pandemic-isnt-good-enough-67242 | David Suzuki argues that tackling the pandemic is a start to addressing other crises like climate disruption and species extinction. | Canada | Covid-19, climate change |
Sze, Julie | 2006 | Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice | MIT Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | On community-based environmental activism across underserved NYC boroughs | New York City, America, environmental justice, pollution | ||
Tayob, Huda and Hall, Suzanne | 2019 | Race, space and architecture: towards an open-access curriculum | London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology | Report | Academic Work | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdf | This 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 Roundtable | 2016 | Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development Without Displacement. | Partners for Dignity and Rights | Report | Academic Work | https://dignityandrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CLT_web-copy.pdf | Of 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 States | Baltimore, Maryland, America, segregation, community land trust |
The Senate | 2006 | Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages | Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affair | Report | Academic Work | https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/legal_and_constitutional_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/stolen_wages/report/index | The 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 Syllabus | n.d. | Coronavirus Readings | The Syllabus | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://covid19syllabus.substack.com/ | comprehensive lists of work engaging the politics of the unfolding pandemic | Covid-19 | |
Thomas, Destiny | 2020 | Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives. | CityLab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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=citylab | On how pandemic-induced pedestrian street redesigns can deepen inequity and mistrust in disenfranchised communities. | United States | Urban planning, racism |
Thompson, Claire Elise | 2020 | Why racial justice is climate justice | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | environmental justice, police brutality, climate change, disaster |
UBC | n.d. | Reading List of Black Geographers | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.geog.ubc.ca/a-reading-list-of-black-geographers/ | ||||
UCL/Hutchins (Harvard) | n.d. | Legacies of British Slave Ownership Project | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ | ||||
UCLA | n.d. | Institute on Inequality and Democracy | Quick link | Academic Work | https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/ | work on housing justice; policing and incarceration | |||
University of Pennsylvania | n.d. | Covid x Climate | Quick link | Academic Work | https://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/experiments/covid-x-climate?fbclid=IwAR3QKP9ZkWFIFBMgCvNYo8sq7hpeddSG3VuZGZBcula1kodKWREvGM5mGGg | ||||
Urban Omnibus | n.d. | The Location of Justice | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://urbanomnibus.net/2017/11/map-location-justice/ | Architectural League NY on carceral infrastructure throughout New York City | Urban planning, prisons | ||
Velasco, Gabriella | 2020 | How Community Land Trusts Can Advance Racial and Economic Justice | Housing Matters: an Urban Institute Initiative | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-community-land-trusts-can-advance-racial-and-economic-justice | Exploring 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, Rob | 2006 | Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science | Monthly Review Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | On agribusiness and shocks in the industrial, global food system which breed diseases in humans | food, capitalism, supply chains | ||
Wang, R., Cahen, C., Acolin, A. and Walter R. J. | 2019 | Tracking Growth and Evaluating Performance of Shared Equity Homeownership Programs During Housing Market Fluctuations | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Report | Academic Work | https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/tracking-growth-evaluating-performance-shared-equity-homeownership | Findings 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 States | America, shared equity, homeownership, affordability |
Waquant, Loïc | 2007 | Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality | Polity Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Comparing 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, Loïc | 2009 | Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity | Duke University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://libcom.org/files/Lo%C3%AFc%20Wacquant%20-%20Punishing%20the%20Poor.pdf | Waquant considers America as “living laboratory of neoliberal failure,” framing the crisis of the welfare state as the “irruption of the penal state.” | United States | America, neoliberalism, capitalism, poverty, policing |
Washington, Hariet | 2008 | Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present | Book/Text | Academic Work | A lengthy history of medical experimentation on African Americans. | United States | America, apartheid, racism, scientific racism, public health | ||
Wensing, E. & Porter, L | 2016 | Unsettling planning's paradigms: towards a just accommodation of Indigenous rights and interests in Australian urban planning? | Australian Planner | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07293682.2015.1118394 | Planning 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. | Australia | Australia, Aboriginality, Indigenous land, urban planning |
Wilkins, Craig | 2020 | It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility | Curbed | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.curbed.com/2020/7/21/21331734/architecture-equity-black-lives-matter-craig-wilkins | Craig 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 L | 2007 | The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music | University of Minnesota press. | Book/Text | Academic Work | How African Americans are marginalized within the architectural field; how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communities | United States | America, architecture, racism, critical scholarship | |
Williams, Finn and David Chipperfield | 2020 | Boris Johnson is wrong to blame the housing crisis on overregulation | The Guardian | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/11/boris-johnson-wrong-housing-crisis-overregulation | How Boris Johnson’s plan to “build, build, build” the UK out of the coronavirus pandemic “shows a frightening misunderstanding of planning and infrastructure.” | United Kingdom | Boris Johnson, housing, urban planning |
Yancy, Roy | 2020 | Judith Butler: Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its Disparities | Truthout | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, Michael | 2020 | Beyond the Critical Framework of Ashkenormativity: Reimagining Jewish Solidarity and Klal Israel | Zaman Collective | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.zamancollective.com/all-posts/michaelbeyondashkenormativity?fbclid=IwAR0HoaTerJtRxP9YWvjPF0WE0Glu4huYGN-qv7EaO5fB_MmO3p_4E3rTOSM | Thinking beyond familiar modes of solidarity, reflecting on Ashkenormativity in Jewish community spaces, and imagining a new Jewish Commons. | Israel | Jewish Commons, Ashkenormativity, solidarity |
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ABC | n.d. | Resource Guide: Engaging with Indigenous Content | ABC | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408 | Australia, Aboriginality | ||
Agyeman, Julian | 2012 | Just sustainabilities. | Blog, Julian Agyeman | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 Boone | 2020 | Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation—Is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? | The Conversation | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://theconversation.com/land-loss-has-plagued-black-america-since-emancipation-is-it-time-to-look-again-at-black-commons-and-collective-ownership-140514 | Context 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 States | America, reparations, land, black commons, collective land ownership, freedom farms, homeownership, property, redlining, restrictive covenants. |
Agyeman, Julian, Caitlin Matthews and Hannah Sobel | 2017 | Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://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 Evans | 2002 | Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity | Space and Polity | Journal Article | Academic Work | The issue of environmental equity is inextricably tied to that of human equality at all scales. Exploring different traditions, approaches of environmental justice | inclusive environmentalism, environmental justice, just sustainabilities | ||
Ajani, Ashia | 2020 | Making it Easier to Breathe.” | Sierra Mag | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/making-it-easier-breathe?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sierramag&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3ppgn7taJs9FuQuehdYJ_WOLIKOmInKr6NsgJjTJ4KwHiv4UEXFGtj-O4 | On 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, Michelle | 2010 | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | The New Press. | Book/Text | Academic Work | Alexander 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 States | America, mass incarceration, policing, racism, drug policy, Jim Crow | |
Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman | 2011 | Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability | The MIT Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://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 States | America, food, food justice, environmental justice, racism, class, sustainability, public health |
American Institute of Architects | n.d. | 50 Years After Whitney Young, Jr | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.50yearsafterwhitneyyoung.org/introduction-aia-and-whitney-young | ||||
Andrews, Eve | 2020 | A River Runs Through It: Southern California’s coastal and mountainous regions face the same, fickle climate enemy. | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | San Diego, California, America, Tijuana, Mexico, US-Mexico border, climate change, coastal cities, Indigenous land |
Angotti, Tom and Morse, Sylvia | 2017 | Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City | Terreform Urban Research. | Book/Text | Academic 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 States | New York City, America, zoning, urban planning, gentrification | |
Anthony, Thalia and Stephen Gray | 2020 | Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate. | SBS News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.sbs.com.au/news/was-there-slavery-in-australia-yes-it-shouldn-t-even-be-up-for-debate | Legal 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. | Australia | Australia, First Nations Australians, slavery |
Architectural League NY | n.d. | Statement and Resources on Race and Architecture | Quick link | Academic Work | https://archleague.org/the-architectural-leagues-statement-on-racial-justice/ | ||||
Association of American Geographers | n.d. | tribute to Harold M. Rose | Quick link | Academic Work | http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/tributes_memorials/mr/rose_harold | ||||
Bagley, Katherine | 2020 | Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the Coronavirus | Yale Environment 360 | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://e360.yale.edu/features/connecting-the-dots-between-environmental-injustice-and-the-coronavirus | EJ 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 States | America, Detroit, Environmental justice, Covid-19 |
Bailey, Philip M. and Tessa Duvall | 2020 | Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say | Courier Journal | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Louisville, Kentucky, America, Breonna Taylor, police brutality, gentrification, community land trust |
Baker, Mike and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Manny Fernandez and Michael LaForgia | 2020 | Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe. | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu | The New York Times finds 70 cases over the past decade of American people dying in police custody after saying, “I cant breathe.” | United States | America, police brutality, racism |
Barry, Ellen | 2020 | 7 Lessons (And Warnings) From Those Who Marched With Dr. King. | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/george-floyd-protests.html | Organizers who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on the George Floyd protests. | United States | America, protest, racism, George Floyd, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
Bennhold, Katrin and Melissa Eddy | 2020 | In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy is an Essential Part of Police Training. | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/germany-police.html | Learning from the overhauls of policing in Germany, after World War II. How cadets are taught shameful Nazi legacies, to prompt meaningful institutional reform. | Germany | Germany, policing, institutional memory, reform |
Berkeley Black Geographies | n.d. | The Berkeley Black Geographies project | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.theblackgeographic.com/berkeley-black-geographies | ||||
Bethea, Sally | 2020 | Above the Waterline: the convergence of the civil rights and environmental justice movements. | Atlanta In Town Paper | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Warren County, North Carolina, America, environmental justice, racism, protest |
Bronin, Sara C. | 2020 | In fight for justice, zoning laws that exclude low-income people must be changed | Courier Journal | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, zoning, urban planning |
Brooks-LaSure, Allyn | 2020 | Your Confederacy is Choking my People. | The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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-RgNWoNcD27xCxSRRkc | Tracing legacies of racial apartheid in the U.S., arguing that the confederacy cannot exist within a pluralistic America. | United States | America, confederacy, monuments, racism, apartheid, protest |
Brown, Aleen | 2020 | Inside Rikers: An Account of the Virus-Stricken Jail from a Man Who Managed to Get Out | The Intercept | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, New York City, Rikers Island, prisons, Covid-19 |
Butler, Tamika | 2020 | Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes. | Bicycling Magazine | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32783551/cycling-talk-fight-racism/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflowTWBI | On race and cycling: Relationship between bike lanes and gentrification; marketing strategies which assume cisgender white maleness as the norm. | United States | America, Los Angeles, cycling, urban planning, racism |
Canadian Urban Institute | n.d. | How do we respond to anti-black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.canurb.org/new-blog-1/2020/6/10/how-do-we-respond-to-anti-black-racism-in-urbanist-practices-and-conversations | linked panel moderated by placemaker Jay Pitter | |||
Carmody, Rebecca | 2019 | The little-known story of when Perth banned Indigenous people from the city and suburbs. | ABC News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-29/when-perth-banned-aboriginal-people-from-the-city/11818540 | History of Indigenous Ban in Perth, where Aboriginal populations were not allowed without a Native Pass from 1927-1954. | Australia | Australia, Perth, zoning, segregation, First Nations Australians, racism |
Carpenter, Zoe | 2020 | Will Covid-19 be a turning point in the fight against racial disparities in health care? | The Nation | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, America, Covid-19, racism, public health |
Chapman, Isabelle and Drew Kann | 2020 | For some environmentalists, ‘I can’t breathe’ is about more than police brutality. | CNN | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/environmental-racism-explainer-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2ptq-mjAFELpUMs9oxKh1YYu76oHD2kHcgRNKwlV-wYByxesjjPKfsEl8 | Connections 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 States | America, environmental justice, air pollution, public health, racism |
Chayka, Kyle | 2020 | How the Coronavirus will reshape architecture | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architecture | Exploring 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 D | 2019 | How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived | Hyperallergic | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | New York, America, culture, community organizing, urban renewal, redlining, racism |
Christ, Meehan | 2020 | What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html | Exploring 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-Nehisi | 2014 | The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, Jim Crow, racism, reparations, contract buying, redlining |
Coates, Ta-Nehisi | 2017 | My President Was Black | The Atlantic | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | America, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, racism, culture |
Colomina, Beatriz | 2018 | X-Ray Architecture | Lars Muller Publishers | Book/Text | Academic Work | Explores 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 GSAPP | n.d. | Unlearning Whiteness | Quick link | Academic Work | https://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site/ | ||||
Crenshaw, Kimberlé and Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas | 1995 | Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement | The New Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Progressive theories on law, race, and racial power; critical intersections between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. | Racism, critical scholarship | ||
Curbed | n.d. | 5 essential books on making cities anti-racist | Curbed | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://www.curbed.com/2020/6/5/21281828/5-essential-books-for-designing-equitable-cities | Racism, urban planning | ||
Daniella Fergusson | n.d. | Inclusive Urbanism Reading List | Medium | Quick link | Academic Work | https://medium.com/@daniella.fergusson/anti-racist-urbanism-reading-list-1846f8c7b57f | |||
Fataar, Rashiq and Brett Petzer | 2014 | Cape Town’s Anti-Apartheid Urban Plan | Next City | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://nextcity.org/features/view/cape-towns-anti-apartheid-urban-plan | Spatial segregation of Cape Town under Grand Apartheid; democratization of its central rail terminal, which formerly concretized apartheid ideology. | South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa, apartheid, architecture, racism, segregation, urban planning |
Felber, Garrett | 2020 | The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not New | Boston Review | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://bostonreview.net/race/garrett-felber-struggle-abolish-police-not-new?fbclid=IwAR2ll7rHBgfB0ZOLeU3MJEFCWODdJodCwcjhGPlK6SdCzeP7iM1WkgsKMpg | A history of abolitionism (rather than reform) in American civil rights/policing activism | United States | America, racism, policing, abolition |
Finley, Mary Lou | 2016 | Inside the Contract Buyers League’s fight against housing discrimination | Chicago Reporter | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | Chicago, America, housing discrimination, contract buying, racism |
Florido, Adrian | 2011 | How Segregation Defined San Diego’s Neighborhoods | Voice of San Diego | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/neighborhoods/how-segregation-defined-san-diegos-neighborhoods/ | History of restrictive covenants and neighborhood segregation in San Diego, California. | United States | San Diego, California, America, restrictive covenants, housing discrimination, segregation, property |
Gardener, Beth | 2020 | Unequal impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change | Yale Environment 360 | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-change | Elizabeth 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 States | America, environmental justice, just transition, capitalism, racism, public health |
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson | 2007 | Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California | University of California Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Political economy of prisons in California. Abolition geography; prisons as spatial fix. | United States | California, America, carceral geography, capitalism, abolition | |
Goldsmiths | n.d. | Forensic Architecture | Quick link | Academic Work | https://forensic-architecture.org/ | ||||
Goldstein, Eric A | n.d. | NYC Council Must Restore Funds for Community Composting | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nrdc.org/experts/eric-goldstein/nyc-council-must-restore-funds-community-composting?fbclid=IwAR3y_Cu_67oictyz_0Z4bfx2ceV2popQ54ZbqHwurWGf4nqV52_6M_ftKBE | New York City Environment Director Eric A. Goldstein on the importance of community composting. | United States | New York City, America, climate change, community composting | |
Gongadze, Salome | 2020 | Four months on: looking back at the COVID-19 epidemic in London | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, Covid-19, racism, BAME communities, environmental justice | |
Gonnerman, Jennifer | 2014 | Before the Law | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law | Centering 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 States | New York City, America, Rikers Island, Kalief Browder, bail, prisons, mass incarceration, juvenile justice, racism |
GSAPP Black Students Alliance | n.d. | On the futility of listening | Quick link | Academic Work | https://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/ | ||||
Hamilton, Aretina R | 2020 | The Geography of Despair (or All These Rubber Bullets) | Medium | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://medium.com/@blackgeographer/the-geography-of-despair-or-all-these-rubber-bullets-6f6d711159f5 | Dr. Aretina R. Hamilton on institutional racism in the geographic academy. “How race takes place.” | United States | America, academia, geography, police brutality, racism |
Harney, Stefano and Moten, Fred | 2013 | The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. | Minor Compositions | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf | An 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, Dianne | 2012 | Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America | University of Minnesota Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/little-white-houses | How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era. | United States | America, housing, racism, architecture |
Harvard | n.d. | Covid-19 PM 2.5 | Quick link | Academic Work | https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm/home | Study on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the US | United States | ||
Harvard GSD | n.d. | Just City Lab | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.designforthejustcity.org/ | ||||
Harvard GSD | n.d. | Just City Essays | Quick link | Academic Work | https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5dfb72697a9837b1f6751b/t/5b7d8b5a88251b1adad06c60/1534954340713/JustCityEssays.pdf | ||||
Hinton, Elizabeth | 2017 | From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. | Book/Text | Academic Work | Tracing the rise of mass incarceration in America to Lyndon-era “Great Society” social welfare programs. | United States | America, mass incarceration, prisons, poverty, neoliberalism | ||
Hinton, Elizabeth | 2020 | George Floyd’s Death is a Failure of Generations of Leadership | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/george-floyd-protests-1960s.html | Learning 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 States | racism, police brutality, protest |
Hirsch, Afua | 2020 | The racism that killed George Floyd was built in Britain | The Guardian | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/03/racism-george-floyd-britain-america-uk-black-people | Linking 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 Forin | 2019 | Migrant Workers, ‘Modern Slavery’ and the Politics of Representation in Italian Tomato Production | Economy and Society | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085147.2019.1672426?journalCode=reso20 | Representational 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. | Italy | Foggia, Italy, modern slavery, supply chains, migrant workers |
Ibram X. Kendi | n.d. | An Antiracist Reading List | New York Times | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html | |||
Interboro Partners | n.d. | The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion | Quick link | Academic Work | http://www.interboropartners.com/projects/the-arsenal-of-exclusion-inclusion | ||||
Isabel Hunter and Lorenzo Di Pietro | 2017 | The Terrible Truth about Your Tin of Italian Tomatoes. | Reading List | Accessible Article | www.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. | Italy | Italy, Europe, working conditions, exploitation, migration, food, Abdullah Muhammed | |
Jaffe, Eric | 2014 | The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates the Poor | Fast Company | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.fastcompany.com/3034206/the-hidden-ways-urban-design-segregates-the-poor | On exclusionary design practices like poor doors, inaccessible ‘public’ spaces, surveillance or anti-homeless spikes. | Architecture, urban planning, exclusionary design | |
Jash, Tahnee | 2020 | How to learn from Indigenous people about the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia | ABC News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/how-to-engage-with-indigenous-content-black-lives-matter/12373408 | A 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. | Australia | Indigenous people, Indigenous land, Black Lives Matter |
Jones, Tobias, and Ayo Awokoya | 2019 | Are Your Tinned Tomatoes Picked by Slave Labour? | The Guardian | Reading List | Accessible Article | www.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. | Italy | Modern slavery, working conditions, migration, food industry, mafia, Europe, Italy |
Jones, William P | 2020 | The Dignity of Labor | Dissent Magazine | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-dignity-of-labor | The exploitation--despite reification--of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. | Covid-19, public health, labor | |
Kaplan, Victoria. | 2006 | Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States. | Rowman and Littlefield. | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Structural_Inequality.html?id=SmtL1cm0OmYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false | On systemic racism in architecture in the U.S | United States | America, architecture, racism, critical scholarship |
Kelly, Robin D.G. | 2017 | What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism? | Boston Review | Reading List | Accessible Article | http://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-what-did-cedric-robinson-mean-racial-capitalism | On 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, Ezra | 2020 | Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is Hopeful | Vox | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21279530/ta-nehisi-coates-ezra-klein-show-george-floyd-police-brutality-trump-biden | Ezra Klein in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about parallels and differences between today and 1968. | United States | racism, protest, Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Klein, Naomi | 2007 | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. | Metropolitan Books | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tsd_nk.pdf | Klein 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 examples | Capitalism, disaster, critical scholarship | |
Kolinjivadi, Vijay | 2020 | The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis | Al Jazeera | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-outbreak-part-climate-change-emergency-200325135058077.html | On the common roots of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. | Climate change, Covid-19 | |
Kolinjivadi, Vijay | 2020 | This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song | Uneven Earth | Reading List | Accessible Article | http://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, Bryan | 2020 | America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress | Citylab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | urban planning, Design Justice |
Lens, Michael C. and Paavo Monkkonen | 2015 | Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated By Income? | Journal of the American Planning Association | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2015.1111163?journalCode=rjpa20#.VoqIIbYrLrc | Zoning (density restrictions) drives income segregation; towards planning for inclusionary housing requirements. | United States | America; income segregation, land use regulations, zoning |
Lerner, Sharon | 2020 | The Coronavirus Pandemic and Police Violence Have Reignited the Fight Against Toxic Racism | The Intercept | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | environmental justice, police brutality, Covid-19, public health, Robert Bullard, Damu Smith |
Lewan, Todd and Dolores Barclay | 2001 | When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your Future | LA Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-02-mn-10514-story.html | The AP reports on legacies of Black American land loss; sweeping evidence of violent land-taking. | United States | racism, property, land |
LSE Sociology | n.d. | Open Access Curriculum | Quick link | Academic Work | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdf | on race, space, and architecture | |||
Make the Road NY | 2020 | Excluded in the Epicenter: Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis on Working-Class Immigrant, Black, and Brown New Yorkers | Report | Academic Work | https://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MRNY_SurveyReport_small.pdf | The 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 States | New York, America, Covid-19, crisis, migration | |
Manoeli, Sebabatso C. | 2020 | We Have no Harlem in Sudan | Africa is a Country | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/we-have-no-harlem-in-sudan?fbclid=IwAR15K6OIFSkbtYG8D46axsA1MRaIpPoze5ojW8KsCD2JegdydDjHmfqrlIY | Arguing 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 S | 2003 | American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclass | Harvard University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Tracing legacies of de jure and de facto segregation in the U.S., and the detrimental impact this has had on Black communities. | United States | America, racism, segregation, neoliberalism, urban planning | |
Mbao, Wamuwi | 2020 | What continuities can be drawn from the murder of Ahmed Timol in apartheid Joburg to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis? | Johannesburg Review of Books | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 Africa | police brutality, Ahmed Timol, protest, apartheid |
McKibben, Bill | 2020 | How Public Opinion Changes for the Better | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-public-opinion-changes-for-the-better | Longtime 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 States | climate change, environmental justice, police brutality, protest, public opinion, George Floyd |
McKibben, Bill | 2020 | Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate are Not Separate Issues | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | Bill McKibben on the intersectional causes/experiences of racism, police brutality, and climate change. Toward environmental justice. | United States | climate change, environmental justice, inclusive environmentalism, police brutality, Covid-19 | |
McKittrick, Katherine and Woods, Clide | 2007 | Black geographies and the politics of place | Between the lines | Book/Text | Academic Work | Collection 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 V | 2008 | The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present | University of Pittsburgh Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | A comprehensive history of sanitary services in urban America, from The Age of Miasmas, to the Bacteriological revolution, to The New Ecology. | United States | America, sanitation, infrastructure, ecology, public health | |
Merrifield, Andy | 2002 | Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City | Monthly Review Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Marxist 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, Anna | 2017 | Big Capital: Who is London For? | Penguin Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Minton details the political and economic forces which produced London’s housing crisis, arguing that austerity is a key driver of inequality. | United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, housing, capitalism, neoliberalism, austerity | |
Misra, Tanvi | 2016 | Instead of Trump’s Wall, Why Not a Binational Border City? | Citylab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, Gregg | 2008 | Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes | Yale University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Drawing 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 States | America, ecology, pollution, public health, environmental justice | |
National Organization of Minority Architects | n.d. | Statement on Racial Injustice | Quick link | Academic Work | https://noma.net/nomas-public-statement-regarding-racial-injustice-2020-may-31/ | United States | |||
New York Times | n.d. | Read up on the links between racism and climate change | New York Times | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/05/climate/racism-climate-change-reading-list.html | Racism, climate change | ||
Nixon, Rob | 2013 | Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor | Harvard University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Nixon develops framework of slow violence to problematize environmental racism and inequality. | Inclusive environmentalism, environmental humanities | ||
Nonko, Emily | 2016 | Redlining: How one racist, Depression-era policy still shapes New York real estate | Brick Underground | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/10/history_of_redlining | History of redlining and its legacy in New York City | United States | redlining, housing discrimination, segregation, urban planning |
NYU | n.d. | Urban Democracy Lab | Quick link | Academic Work | https://urbandemos.nyu.edu/ | ||||
NYU | n.d. | The Latinx Project | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/ | ||||
Oliveri, Federico | 2017 | Racialization and Counter-Racialization in Times of Crisis: Taking Migrant Struggles in Italy as a Critical Standpoint on Race. | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1391404 | Racialization 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, Shannon | 2020 | Tear gas and coronavirus are a ‘recipe for disaster,’ experts warn. | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | protest, Covid-19, environmental racism, public health |
Packer, George | 2015 | The Other France | The New Yorker | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-france | On the racial tensions underpinning the public housing projects of Paris, the French banlieues. | France | HLM, banlieue, public housing, racism |
Perera, Jessica | 2019 | The London Clearances: Race, Housing and Policing | The Institute of Race Relations | Report | Academic Work | http://www.irr.org.uk/app/uploads/2019/02/The-London-Clearances-Race-Housing-and-Policing.pdf | Demonstrates 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 policin | United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, austerity, policing, housing, public housing |
Peters, Adele | 2020 | This Atlanta jail will transform into a center for justice and equity | Fast Company | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.fastcompany.com/90515296/this-atlanta-jail-will-transform-into-a-center-for-justice-and-equity?fbclid=IwAR2AztDuBxLHSq1JHMqLJ-M2nfGBufwSex-vOoM0zGTBzUXHAldql4N4V_Q | Profiling 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 States | prisons, mass incarceration, restorative justice, Design justice |
Picker, G. | 2017 | Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe | Book/Text | Academic Work | On 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 Ababa | Europe, Roma, segregation, racism | |||
Places Journal | n.d. | Black in Design | Quick link | Academic Work | https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/black-in-design/?cn-reloaded=1 | Reading List | |||
Porter, Amanda | 2016 | Decolonizing policing: Indigenous patrols, counter-policing and safety | Theoretical Criminology | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480615625763 | Everyday 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. | Australia | New South Wales, Australia, colonialism, Indigenous peoples, juvenile justice, legal pluralism, policing |
Porter, Libby | 2018 | Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their history | SBS | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/05/09/indigenous-communities-are-reworking-urban-planning-planners-need-accept-their | On the exclusion of Indigenous Australians from urban areas; towards urban land justice. | Australia | Indigenous people, First Nations Australians, urban planning |
Prison Policy | n.d. | Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/ | ||||
Pronczuk, Monika and Megan Specia | 2020 | Belgium’s King Sends Letter of Regret Over Colonial Past in Congo | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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®i_id=97678672§ion=topNews&segment_id=32301&te=1&user_id=5235e29b73bd30b16c0d5a261af74e09 | Reckoning with postcolonial Belgium-DRC relations in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the toppling of monuments to King Leopold II. | Belgium | The Democratic Republic of Congo, colonialism, monuments |
Raven, Rakia | 2016 | A sinking jail: The environmental disaster that is Rikers Island | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | environmental justice, prisons, mass incarceration, Rikers Island |
Razack, Sherene | 2002 | Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society | Between the Lines | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://btlbooks.com/book/race-space-and-the-law | Examining 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, Valeria | 2020 | NYC immigrants fear losing their homes during the pandemic | Curbed | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://ny.curbed.com/2020/5/27/21265692/nyc-coronavirus-immigrants-rent-queens-brooklyn | The 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 States | Covid-19, housing, migration |
Robinson, Cedric J | 1983 | Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition | University of North Carolina Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdf | Robinson’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, Richard | 2017 | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America | Liveright | Book/Text | Academic Work | A history of residential segregation in America | United States | America, segregation, housing, zoning, racism | |
Roy, Ananya | 2017 | Dis/possessive collectivism: property and personhood at city’s end. | Geoforum 80 | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718516302949 | Roy explores the Chicago Anti-Eviction campaign. | United States | Chicago, America, dispossession, property, racial banishment, displacement, collectivism |
Roy, Ananya | 2019 | Racial Banishment | Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119558071.ch42 | Roy 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 States | America, mass incarceration, racial banishment, racialization, critical scholarship, white supremacy |
Roy, Arundhati | 2020 | The Pandemic is a Portal | Financial Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca | Arundhati 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. | India | Covid-19, capitalism |
RTPI | n.d. | 5 Reasons for Climate Justice in Spatial Planning | RTPI | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.rtpi.org.uk/research/2020/january/five-reasons-for-climate-justice-in-spatial-planning/ | United Kingdom | ||
Rutten, Koen | 2020 | What a planner might learn from the Black Lives Matter movement | Town and Country Planning Association Blog | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.tcpa.org.uk/blog/blog-what-a-planner-might-learn-from-the-black-lives-matter-movement | The 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 Kingdom | urban planning, segregation, public health |
Ruzicka, Michal | 2012 | Continuity or rupture? Roma/Gypsy communities in rural and urban environments under post-socialism | Journal of Rural Studies | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743016712000204 | Brief 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 Republic | Czech Republic and Slovakia; post-socialism, social exclusion, marginalization, Roma/Gypsies. |
Sabrina Bazile | n.d. | Urban Planners as Organizers Toward Liberation: A resource guide and framework | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGcdwuWLt3zO-MqYU1UIMl7422zEdIKUKEAEtOTSnzk/edit | Urban planning, abolition | |||
Sacoby Wilson | Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health | Quick link | Academic Work | https://sph.umd.edu/laboratory-resources/community-engagement-environmental-justice-and-health-ceejh | |||||
Satariano, Adam | 2010 | He’s Buying Up Brixton’: Beloved Grocer’s Eviction Sparks Gentrification Fight | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/europe/brixton-london-eviction-grocer-nour.html | The 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 Kingdom | gentrification, Covid-19, migration |
Saviano, Roberto | 2010 | Italy's African Heroes | The New York Times | Reading List | Accessible Article | On 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. | Italy | mafia, migration, exploitation | |
Schneider, Benjamin | 2019 | CityLab University: Shared-Equity Homeownership | Bloomberg CityLab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/alternative-homeownership-land-trusts-and-co-ops | The 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, Amartya | 2009 | The Idea of Justice | Harvard University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://dutraeconomicus.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/amartya-sen-the-idea-of-justice-2009.pdf | Amartya Sen critiques John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. | Critical scholarship, philosophy, law | |
Shedd, Carla | 2015 | Unequal city: race, schools, and perceptions of injustice | Russell Sage Foundation | Book/Text | Academic Work | On racial segregation and its impacts on schoolchildren (race, place, and opportunity) in Chicago | United States | Chicago, Illinois, America, racism, segregation, education | |
Shildrick, Tracy | 2018 | Lessons from Grenfell: Poverty propaganda, stigma and class power. | The Sociological Review | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026118777424 | This article draws on the example of Grenfell Tower to interrogate issues around poverty, inequality and austerity. | United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom, housing, poverty, class |
Simpson, Sheryl-Ann, Steil, Justin, and Mehta, Aditi | 2020 | Planning Beyond Mass Incarceration | Journal of Planning Education and Research | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739456X20915505 | Relationships 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, Neil | 2006 | There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster | Social Science Research Council | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, Gretchen | 2020 | Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights | Liveright | Book/Text | Academic Work | How 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 Committee | n.d. | 1969: Fannie Lou Hamer Founds Freedom Farm Cooperative | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, David | 2020 | Rethinking roads can drive down species decline | Straight.com | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.straight.com/news/david-suzuki-rethinking-roads-can-drive-down-species-decline | Rethinking Canadian road-wildlife relations during Covid-19 lockdown. | Canada | Covid-19, climate change, urban planning |
Suzuki, David | 2020 | Returning to normal after pandemic isn’t good enough | Chek News | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://cheknews.ca/david-suzuki-returning-to-normal-after-pandemic-isnt-good-enough-67242 | David Suzuki argues that tackling the pandemic is a start to addressing other crises like climate disruption and species extinction. | Canada | Covid-19, climate change |
Sze, Julie | 2006 | Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice | MIT Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | On community-based environmental activism across underserved NYC boroughs | New York City, America, environmental justice, pollution | ||
Tayob, Huda and Hall, Suzanne | 2019 | Race, space and architecture: towards an open-access curriculum | London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology | Report | Academic Work | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdf | This 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 Roundtable | 2016 | Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development Without Displacement. | Partners for Dignity and Rights | Report | Academic Work | https://dignityandrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CLT_web-copy.pdf | Of 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 States | Baltimore, Maryland, America, segregation, community land trust |
The Senate | 2006 | Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages | Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affair | Report | Academic Work | https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/legal_and_constitutional_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/stolen_wages/report/index | The 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 Syllabus | n.d. | Coronavirus Readings | The Syllabus | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://covid19syllabus.substack.com/ | comprehensive lists of work engaging the politics of the unfolding pandemic | Covid-19 | |
Thomas, Destiny | 2020 | Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives. | CityLab | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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=citylab | On how pandemic-induced pedestrian street redesigns can deepen inequity and mistrust in disenfranchised communities. | United States | Urban planning, racism |
Thompson, Claire Elise | 2020 | Why racial justice is climate justice | Grist | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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 States | environmental justice, police brutality, climate change, disaster |
UBC | n.d. | Reading List of Black Geographers | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.geog.ubc.ca/a-reading-list-of-black-geographers/ | ||||
UCL/Hutchins (Harvard) | n.d. | Legacies of British Slave Ownership Project | Quick link | Academic Work | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ | ||||
UCLA | n.d. | Institute on Inequality and Democracy | Quick link | Academic Work | https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/ | work on housing justice; policing and incarceration | |||
University of Pennsylvania | n.d. | Covid x Climate | Quick link | Academic Work | https://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/experiments/covid-x-climate?fbclid=IwAR3QKP9ZkWFIFBMgCvNYo8sq7hpeddSG3VuZGZBcula1kodKWREvGM5mGGg | ||||
Urban Omnibus | n.d. | The Location of Justice | Quick link | Accessible Article | https://urbanomnibus.net/2017/11/map-location-justice/ | Architectural League NY on carceral infrastructure throughout New York City | Urban planning, prisons | ||
Velasco, Gabriella | 2020 | How Community Land Trusts Can Advance Racial and Economic Justice | Housing Matters: an Urban Institute Initiative | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-community-land-trusts-can-advance-racial-and-economic-justice | Exploring 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, Rob | 2006 | Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science | Monthly Review Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | On agribusiness and shocks in the industrial, global food system which breed diseases in humans | food, capitalism, supply chains | ||
Wang, R., Cahen, C., Acolin, A. and Walter R. J. | 2019 | Tracking Growth and Evaluating Performance of Shared Equity Homeownership Programs During Housing Market Fluctuations | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Report | Academic Work | https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/tracking-growth-evaluating-performance-shared-equity-homeownership | Findings 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 States | America, shared equity, homeownership, affordability |
Waquant, Loïc | 2007 | Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality | Polity Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | Comparing 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, Loïc | 2009 | Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity | Duke University Press | Book/Text | Academic Work | https://libcom.org/files/Lo%C3%AFc%20Wacquant%20-%20Punishing%20the%20Poor.pdf | Waquant considers America as “living laboratory of neoliberal failure,” framing the crisis of the welfare state as the “irruption of the penal state.” | United States | America, neoliberalism, capitalism, poverty, policing |
Washington, Hariet | 2008 | Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present | Book/Text | Academic Work | A lengthy history of medical experimentation on African Americans. | United States | America, apartheid, racism, scientific racism, public health | ||
Wensing, E. & Porter, L | 2016 | Unsettling planning's paradigms: towards a just accommodation of Indigenous rights and interests in Australian urban planning? | Australian Planner | Journal Article | Academic Work | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07293682.2015.1118394 | Planning 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. | Australia | Australia, Aboriginality, Indigenous land, urban planning |
Wilkins, Craig | 2020 | It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility | Curbed | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.curbed.com/2020/7/21/21331734/architecture-equity-black-lives-matter-craig-wilkins | Craig 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 L | 2007 | The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music | University of Minnesota press. | Book/Text | Academic Work | How African Americans are marginalized within the architectural field; how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communities | United States | America, architecture, racism, critical scholarship | |
Williams, Finn and David Chipperfield | 2020 | Boris Johnson is wrong to blame the housing crisis on overregulation | The Guardian | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/11/boris-johnson-wrong-housing-crisis-overregulation | How Boris Johnson’s plan to “build, build, build” the UK out of the coronavirus pandemic “shows a frightening misunderstanding of planning and infrastructure.” | United Kingdom | Boris Johnson, housing, urban planning |
Yancy, Roy | 2020 | Judith Butler: Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its Disparities | Truthout | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://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, Michael | 2020 | Beyond the Critical Framework of Ashkenormativity: Reimagining Jewish Solidarity and Klal Israel | Zaman Collective | Reading List | Accessible Article | https://www.zamancollective.com/all-posts/michaelbeyondashkenormativity?fbclid=IwAR0HoaTerJtRxP9YWvjPF0WE0Glu4huYGN-qv7EaO5fB_MmO3p_4E3rTOSM | Thinking beyond familiar modes of solidarity, reflecting on Ashkenormativity in Jewish community spaces, and imagining a new Jewish Commons. | Israel | Jewish Commons, Ashkenormativity, solidarity |