From “Five Angry Women” to “Kick-ass Community”: Gentrification and Environmental Activism in Brooklyn and Beyond

Hamilton, Trina; Curran, Winifred

doi:10.1177/0042098012465128

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“…In Boston, the EJ organization ACE has recently included affordable housing or rent stabilization within its advocacy strategy (Anguelovski, ). In other cases, vulnerable groups ally themselves with middle‐class residents who support their advocacy and invigorate their environmental activism (Curran and Hamilton, ; Hamilton and Curran, ).…”

Section: Neighborhood Revitalization Environmental Gentrification Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods

Anguelovski

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

120

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Local activists engaged in contemporary environmental justice struggles not only fight against traditional forms of hazardous locally unwanted land uses (LULUs), they also organize to make their neighborhoods livable and green. However, urban environmental justice activism is at a crossroads: as marginalized neighborhoods become revitalized, out side investors start to value them again and they themselves invest in green amenities. Yet vulnerable residents are now raising concerns about the risk of displacement from their neighborhoods in consequence of environmental gentrification processes. Their fear is linked to environmental amenities such as new parks or remodeled waterfronts, as well as (most recently) healthy food stores. Using the case of a conflict around a new Whole Foods supermarket in Boston, MA, I examine how food venues and stores labeled as healthy and natural can create sociospatial inequality together with privilege, exclusion and displace ment in racially diverse neighborhoods. I analyze how highend supermarket chains target innercity neighborhoods for their growth and profit potential, and demonstrate that their arrival contributes to what I call 'supermarket greenlining'. This greenlining illustrates the process of food gentrification, and the manipulation of health and sustainability discourses about food by healthy and natural food investors and their supporters. The opening of high end supermarkets thus converts such stores into new LULUs for historically marginalized groups.

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Section: Neighborhood Revitalization Environmental Gentrification Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods

Anguelovski

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

120

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“…In some cases, it may be enough that the potential for future cleanup and profit exists; however, reinvestment must be facilitated by place marketing that reframes the future as one that is eco-friendly (Hamilton and Curran, 2013). Bryson (2013) highlights the ways that developers market greening initiatives to housing consumers to drive up real estate prices in undesirable areas.…”

Section: Environmental Gentrificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body

Kern

2015

Environ Plan D

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This paper takes up the challenge o f extending and enhancing the literature on environm ental gentrification by considering bodies and embodied practices as significant dimensions o f this process. In considering the question o f how a polluted past can be mobilized as an asset for neighbourhood rebranding and gentrification, this research suggests that the conflation o f both pollution and 'health' with different kinds o f urban bodies and practices is an im portant strategy for solidifying a clean and green neighbourhood future. I argue that some bodies are constituted as 'dirty' by the symbolic and substantive displacement o f environmental pollution onto those bodies, in ways that allow the neighbourhood to redefine itself as clean (whether it is environmentally clean or not) once those bodies are displaced, contained, or made invisible. This perspective requires us to consider the radically coconstitutive character o f representations and materiality, bodies and cities, nature and social relations. Based on a case study of T oronto's Junction neighbourhood, this paper m aintains th at bringing bodies to the foreground attends to the power o f em bodim ent in producing and reproducing urban change and, critically, urban inequalities.

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“…Wolch, Byrne, and Newell (2014) argued that in addition to a “just green enough” strategy, interventions should include the commitment of public officials and planners to control real estate developments that catalyze gentrification and residential segregation. Additionally, Hamilton and Curran (2013) pointed out that the new residents (some of whom worked in nonprofits) were also motivated by social justice concerns and that they were not always oppositional to long‐term residents or their concerns.…”

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confidence: 99%

Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification

Krings

Schusler

2020

Int J Soc Welfare

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Sustainable development aims to address economic, social, and environmental imperatives; yet, in practice, it often embodies a neoliberal market logic that reinforces inequalities. Thus, as the social work profession grapples with its role in advancing environmental sustainability, practice models must explicitly attend to social and economic justice. For example, environmental gentrification refers to situations in which the cleanup of contaminated land or the installation of environmental amenities intentionally or unintentionally catalyzes increased housing costs, thereby contributing to the displacement of vulnerable residents. With the goal of contributing to practice knowledge, we conducted a systematic review of peer‐reviewed articles (1997−2017) to learn how community groups have responded to the threat of environmental gentrification. We found that community organizations employ a range of strategies, including blocking development, negotiating for protections, planning alternatives, and allying with gentrifiers. We conclude by exploring ethical implications and practice principles to help social workers engage in truly sustainable development. Key Practitioner Message: • The term environmental gentrification describes situations where improvements to environmental quality increase real estate prices, contributing to the displacement of vulnerable residents; • An environmental justice framework attending to procedural, distributional, and recognition‐based claims provides a model for social work practice; • Opportunities exist for social workers to take an intersectional rather than siloed approach to integrate economic, social, and environmental concerns.

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From “Five Angry Women” to “Kick-ass Community”: Gentrification and Environmental Activism in Brooklyn and Beyond

Abstract: In this article, a new conceptual framework is advocated to evaluate the range of environmental activism in already-gentrifying neighbourhoods and to recognise the agency and resilience of long-term residents.

Cited by 35 publications

References 30 publications

Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods

Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods

From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body

Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification

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