"Everyone Gets a Blister": Sexism, Gender Empowerment, and Race in the People's Park Movement

Lovell, Kera

doi:10.1353/wsq.2018.0034

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“…Overall, this strand of literature is concentrated around young men, and it is also the category drawing most explicitly on LGBTQ issues. In some instances, however, women have used art as a tool to challenge sexism within ongoing protests, as with the People's Park movement in California that converted unused spaces into urban green space (Lovell, 2018).…”

Section: (6) Young Artists Pushing For Urban Transformation and Nature Conservationmentioning

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Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

Rodríguez‐Labajos

Ray

2021

Global Environmental Change

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The ubiquitous use of artworks (e.g., paintings, music, films) in environmental activism has been shown to trigger specific cognitive processes as well as changes in personal values and behaviours. There is less understanding of whether (or how) gender-differentiated environmental claims and gender-transformative initiatives are voiced and promoted through art and cultural expressions. Using network analysis, this paper comprehensively reviews ninety-eight years of peer-reviewed literature on gender and environmental activism. We identify six avenues of gendered artistic activism (or 'artivism') on environmental issues that communities have pursued in the past. We present a non-prescriptive description of each avenue based on key references in the literature. A gendered lens on artistic activism makes visible the power of different groups to act, be they women, men, LGBTQ or other collectives, their chosen (or available) scopes of creative action when engaging with environmental protection and their thematic foci. A highlight of the study is the significant presence of younger demographics, including children and students in environmental artivism. Finally, we discuss how gendered artivism expands our understanding of environmental action, putting our results in conversation with well-known current environmentalism(s).

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Section: (6) Young Artists Pushing For Urban Transformation and Nature Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

Rodríguez‐Labajos

Ray

2021

Global Environmental Change

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Does artistic activism change anything? Strategic and transformative effects of arts in anti-coal struggles in Oakland, CA

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Rodríguez‐Labajos

2021

Geoforum

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Free Food, Free Space: People's Stews and the Spatial Identity Politics of People's Parks

Lovell¹

2018

American Studies

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As radio host and historian Studs Terkel discovered when he arrived at Chicago's activist-created Poor People's Park at the corner of Halsted and Armitage one fall evening in 1969, food served as a symbolic form of cultural and territorial reclamation. Created spontaneously by activists days prior, the park was the most recent spatial occupation by Lincoln Park residents who had been protesting the impact of urban renewal on affordable housing. Terkel heard the crunch of shovels and rakes hitting the rocky dirt, yet the smell of simmering Puerto Rican asopao de pollo or chicken stew continued to draw the residents' attention. 1 When asked by Terkel why she came out to cook for park workers, Ceil Keegan explained that the dish honored the ethnic heritage of the Young Lords leading the park's construction. Her calm and earnest tone conveyed her pride in cooking for these activists as a form of emotional caretaking, encouraging denigrated members in her community to be proud of their culture. Local newspapers had characterized the protest as militant and hypermasculine, yet Keegan made a public display of slowly cooking a delicious vat of chicken stew-its tantalizingly rich aroma pouring into the lungs of their surrounding white middle-class critics who looked on from the sidewalks with derision. Within Poor People's Park, food was a medium for asserting power and reclaiming space that became a foundation for building cross-cultural alliances across boundaries of race, gender, ethnicity, and class in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

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"Everyone Gets a Blister": Sexism, Gender Empowerment, and Race in the People's Park Movement

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

Does artistic activism change anything? Strategic and transformative effects of arts in anti-coal struggles in Oakland, CA

Free Food, Free Space: People's Stews and the Spatial Identity Politics of People's Parks

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