Displacement and the Racial State in Olympic Atlanta 1990–1996

Gustafson, Seth

doi:10.1353/sgo.2013.0016

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“…Next, the seven qualitative peer‐reviewed articles were read and their findings were analyzed. Two involved micro‐analyses of specific phenomena: panhandling and social humiliation in Washington, DC (Lankenau, ), and early 1990s gentrification in Atlanta (Gustafson, ). While the other five qualitative studies shed light on the relationship between race and homelessness, these two did not, so they were set aside.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Race Matter in Addressing Homelessness? A Review of the Literature

Jones¹

2016

World Medical &Amp; Health Policy

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Since the 1980s, black persons have been overrepresented in the United States homeless population. Given that morbidity and mortality is elevated among both the black population and the homeless population in comparison to the general U.S. population, this overrepresentation has important implications for health policy. However, the racial demographics of homelessness have received little attention from policymakers. This article reviews published social and behavioral science literature that addresses the relationship between race and contemporary homelessness in the United States. This literature points to substantial differences between racial subgroups of the U.S. homeless population in vulnerabilities, health risks, behaviors, and service outcomes. Such observed differences suggest that policies and programs to prevent and end homelessness must explicitly consider race as a factor in order to be of maximum effectiveness. The limited scope of these findings also suggests that more research is needed to better understand these differences and their implications.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Race Matter in Addressing Homelessness? A Review of the Literature

Jones¹

2016

World Medical &Amp; Health Policy

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“…To this end, global cities have increasingly become landscapes of selective memory, where certain pasts are highlighted over others. These are gated landscapes in the sense that memories are pre‐screened and barred from urban space, a space which is thereby made smoother and more easily traversable for a neoliberal elite, even while others become stuck or forgotten (see Fernandes, ; Sparke, ; Gustafson, ). Such an experience of time belongs to what Pred (: 15) calls hypermodernity—‘capitalist modernity accentuated and sped up’.…”

Section: Global Cities and The Current Moment Of Dangermentioning

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Hamburg's Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City

MacFarlane¹,

Mitchell²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right‐wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg's urban boosterism relies on, while simultaneously obscuring, the same structures of racial violence that embolden reactionary movements. Drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin and Allan Pred, we present an archaeology of Hamburg's landscape, uncovering some of its ‘spaces of danger’—sites layered with histories of violence, many of which lie buried and forgotten. We find that these spaces, when they become visible, threaten to undermine Hamburg's cosmopolitan narrative. They must, as a result, be continually erased or downplayed in order to secure the city as an attractive site for capital investment. To illustrate this argument, we give three historical examples: Hamburg's role in the Hanseatic League during the medieval and early modern period; the city under the Nazi regime; and the recent treatment of Black African refugees. The article's main contribution is to better situate issues of historical landscape, collective memory and racialized violence within the political economy of today's global city.

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“…For example, Kennelly and Watt's (2011) study of the impact of the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games on homeless and poorly housed children and young adults highlights how the prioritisation of event-associated developments over the improvement of dilapidated supported housing accommodation was interpreted as a manifestation of society's disregard for their well-being with the associated implications for personal perceptions of value and inclusion. Moving forward on the basis of an informed understanding of the social housing impacts of MSEs is, however, extremely challenging as calculations concerning the housing opportunities presented infrequently account for the losses created (Gustafson, 2015;Pentifallo and Van Wynsberghe, 2015). Determining how these impacts flow down to children is even more challenging because, as with displacement, the information provided does not generally separate them out as a distinct stakeholder group.…”

Section: Housing Mses and Children's Rights And Interestsmentioning

confidence: 99%