Sanitizing Public Space in Olympic Host Cities: The Spatial Experiences of Marginalized Youth in 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London

Kennelly, Jacqueline; Watt, Paul

doi:10.1177/0038038511413425

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“…Respondents commented on the increasing concentration of poverty in a small area of the DTES (also observed by Dale and Newman, 2009;Kennelly and Watt, 2011) The respondent is referencing the blocks of Hastings Street that surrounded the thenlocation of the United We Can depot, where the interview took place. This section of the DTES has been the epicentre of visible poverty in the city, largely because of the prevalence of street vending, the line-ups of informal recyclers with their carts at the depot, the line-ups of people waiting for food at soup kitchens and other food service providers, and common open drug use in this area (all of this despite the close proximity of a police station).…”

Section: The Production Of Gentrified Space In the Dtesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Witnessing urban change: Insights from informal recyclers in Vancouver, BC

Parizeau

2016

Urban Studies

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The perspectives of those most affected by urban change are often understudied, although these voices have the potential to inform academic understandings of the production of gentrified space. The Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver, BC is undergoing a period of intense redevelopment, raising concerns about the potential displacement of its predominantly low-income residents. In this study, informal recyclers (people who earn income from collecting recyclable or resaleable items) share their observations of neighbourhood change based on their lives and work in the DTES. Informal recyclers' observations reveal that diverse gentrifying processes are at play in the DTES, including restricted access to space, the social exclusion of othered bodies, and the symbolic construction of the DTES as a place of poverty that is in need of intervention. The inclusion of informal recyclers' perspectives provides nuance to place-based processes of gentrification, and acknowledges the concerns of low-income urbanites most affected by urban change.

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Section: The Production Of Gentrified Space In the Dtesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Anywhere I walk, under my two feet is private property. (Respondent #11,male) Increased securitisation in the DTES can lead to reduced access to previously public spaces (see also Kennelly and Watt, 2011).…”

Section: The Production Of Gentrified Space In the Dtesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Witnessing urban change: Insights from informal recyclers in Vancouver, BC

Parizeau

2016

Urban Studies

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“…Kennelly & Watt, 2011;Silk, 2014). As observed in the wake of a bid announcement, event construction is perpetually paired with policies that dismantle social welfarism, promote entrepreneurialism of a certain kind, and mobilize new strategies of social control to securitize, sanitize, and spectacularize the cityscape (Hodkinson, 2011;Paton, Mooney, & McKee, 2012;Peck, Theodore, & Brenner, 2009).…”

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Economies of (Alleged) Deviance: Sex Work and the Sport Mega-Event

2018

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Based on ethnographic data collected during the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this article is interested to examine urban processes which reinvent the changing (sexual) landscape. Focusing on the way (host) cities shape sex work both imaginatively and physically, we explore the (lived) realities of neoliberal imaginaries that shape urban space. Often thought to exist in the urban shadow as an absent-presence in cosmopolitan processes, we demonstrate the manner in which sexualized and racialized women creatively resist the political and economic trajectories of neoliberal urbanism that seek to expropriate land and dispossess certain bodies. In the context of Rio de Janeiro-as in other host cities-this is particularly evident in the routine encounter between sexual minorities and local law enforcement. Mindful of the literature on state incursion into social-sexual life, we remain attentive to the everyday strategies through which those deemed sexually deviant and/or victim navigate local authorities in search of new opportunities for economic salvation in the midst of the sport mega-event.

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“…Indeed, in recent decades, despite the attempt of various cities to curb and limit homeless people's use of, and presence in, public space (such as laws against sitting on the curb in San Francisco; the criminalisation of begging in Melbourne; Major Guiliani's move-on practices in New York City; and the various 'management' techniques of homelessness in preparation for large events such as the Olympics: e.g. Kennelly and Watt, 2011;Lynch, 2002;Mitchell, 1997; see also Stuart, 2014) homelessness has not abated. In addition, whilst Lois Wacquant (2007) suggests an emergent spatial alienation, a 'territorial stigmatisation' in which 'the poor' are increasingly ghettoised in particular neighbourhoods and areas, encounters with homelessness in cities and towns still remain a feature of everyday urban life.…”

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The ‘lamentable sight’ of homelessness and the society of the spectacle

Gerrard

Farrugia

2014

Urban Studies

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In this paper, we contend that the visual discourses of poverty and inequality are constructed through everyday social relations -the visual, spatial and bodily 'encounter' with homelessness in public space, steeped in the politics of the stigmatised Other. Bringing together Erving Goffman's theory of everyday encounters with Guy Debord's society of the spectacle, we explore the intersection between the 'sight' and 'scene' of homelessness and the spectacle of capital in public space. We identify how everyday encounters with homelessness perpetuate the notion that homelessness is 'out of joint' in relation to the spatial and aesthetic logic of capital and commodity consumption and performance. Reflecting on the repercussions of this for understanding homelessness, we explore the aesthetic dimension of the experience of homelessness within the context of a public space saturated by the social and aesthetic relations and of capital.

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Sanitizing Public Space in Olympic Host Cities: The Spatial Experiences of Marginalized Youth in 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London

Cited by 75 publications

References 17 publications

Witnessing urban change: Insights from informal recyclers in Vancouver, BC

Witnessing urban change: Insights from informal recyclers in Vancouver, BC

Economies of (Alleged) Deviance: Sex Work and the Sport Mega-Event

The ‘lamentable sight’ of homelessness and the society of the spectacle

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