Everyday Life, Spatiality and Inner City Disinvestment in a US City

Wilson, David

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1993.tb00242.x

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“…Indeed, words like ''glocalization'' (Swyngedouw 1992;Robertson 1995) 1 highlight the dialectical relationship between the global and local, in which both dynamics shape peoples' daily lives and experiences. Neighborhood organizing occurs across and within varied sets of contexts and relationships, ranging from the daily life experiences of residents and organizers to the local economic and political context and broader national and global forces operating on and affecting the urban area in which the neighborhood is situated (Wilson 1993;Jonas 1998 are constructed and portrayed in discourses of neighborhood organizations operating in a ''racially'' and ethnically diverse urban area. 2 These references to shared daily life in the spaces of a neighborhood seek to legitimate community organizing at the neighborhood scale.…”

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“Place-Framing” as Place-Making: Constituting a Neighborhood for Organizing and Activism

Martin

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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This article uses social-movement theory to analyze how neighborhood organizations portray activism as grounded in a particular place and scale. I apply the concept of collective-action frames to a case study of four organizations in a single neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. Using organizational documents such as annual reports, comprehensive plans, and flyers, I present a discourse analysis of the ways that organizations describe their goals and agenda. In particular, I assess the extent to which the organizations characterize the neighborhood in their justifications of organizational goals and actions. In order to legitimate their own agendas and empower community activism, neighborhood organizations foster a neighborhood identity that obscures social differences, such as ethnicity and class, among residents. They do so by describing the physical condition of the neighborhood and the daily life experiences of its residents. These ''place-frames'' constitute a motivating discourse for organizations seeking to unite residents for a neighborhood-oriented agenda, despite very different substantive issues, from crime to land-use planning. This perspective allows for a more effective understanding of how place informs activism at a variety of spatial scales. Further, by inserting place into theories of collective-action framing, this research helps to introduce a new research agenda that addresses the gap between geographical analyses of territorial identities and activism and other scholarly literatures on contentious politics.

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“Place-Framing” as Place-Making: Constituting a Neighborhood for Organizing and Activism

Martin

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Our second paper, David Wilson's (1993) study of spatiality and redevelopment in Indianapolis, also illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of these early attempts. At issue is the dramatic gentrification of downtown enclaves amid neglect of crumbling inner-city neighborhoods.…”

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Spatiality and Urban Redevelopment Movements

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Grammenos

2000

Urban Geography

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“…Various challenges have confronted this binary of the city and suburban space and population. Particularly, cultural geographers have theoretically unpacked and empirically refuted these assumptions (i.e., Soja 1998;Wilson 1993). A few conducting contemporary educational research have also begun to follow suit by examining what is implied and at work in constructing urban educational spaces and subjects.…”

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“…The rationale was that as sovereign suburban municipalities, they could circumvent court orders to integrate by becoming separate cities; that is, these extensions of cities could become legally codified as not city, or urban, spaces (Clotfelter 2004;Jacobs 1998;Kruse 2005). Furthermore, as resident groups and local and state government enacted succession movements, the built environment of cities bore the scars of these juridical, economic, and representational battles as state and city planners constructed beltways and railroad lines that divided physically what was imagined as suburban and inner city spaces (Wilson 1993).…”

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Reconsidering the Urban in Urban Education: Interdisciplinary Conversations

Buendía

2010

Urban Rev

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The field of education has become comfortable in its use of the construct urban to describe particular schools in particular metropolitan places. This article argues that the construct has come to signify not just place but also to denote particular meanings of 'urban' populations. It analyzes how literary and socialscientific practices converged to anchor this construct paradigmatically in the registers of educational practitioners and researchers. Drawing from cultural geography, the article then demonstrates why the framework of the urban, and its other implicit pole the suburban, is no longer satisfactory for conceptualizing empirical questions about metropolitan schools. Lastly, the author identifies and discusses exemplars within the field of educational research that help us to remap our theoretical and empirical work.

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Everyday Life, Spatiality and Inner City Disinvestment in a US City

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

“Place-Framing” as Place-Making: Constituting a Neighborhood for Organizing and Activism

“Place-Framing” as Place-Making: Constituting a Neighborhood for Organizing and Activism

Spatiality and Urban Redevelopment Movements

Reconsidering the Urban in Urban Education: Interdisciplinary Conversations

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