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作者

Lisa Berglund

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue3,P.390-413

语言

英文

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作者单位

University of California

摘要

Communities that experience severe disinvestment represent unique political spheres in their mobilization against loss of amenities and simultaneous place attachment to such geographies. 48217, a predominantly Black neighborhood of Southwest Detroit (that is called by its ZIP code), is in close proximity to noxious industries like Marathon Petroleum and steel production. In this article, discourse analysis of interviews with residents was done, concluding that a history of industrial zoning that has depleted land values and prompted school closures and loss of basic amenities has resulted in a collective identity around community activism and resistance to such development patterns. This article finds that 48217 uses collective action framing of disinvestment in predominantly Black communities to drive organizing efforts across shrinking cities as a mobilization strategy. Finally, perhaps counterintuitively, the 48217 community developed a sense of collective identity and place attachment around their experiences of disinvestment and stigma.Additional informationAuthor informationLisa BerglundLisa Berglund is an Instructor in the Urban Planning Department at UCLA. Her research interests focus on community development in the context of the redevelopment of postdisaster cities and the historically demonstrated potential for uneven development favoring certain race and class identities. This research engages with communities to understand the policy obstacles that disenfranchise some groups from the redevelopment process. Focusing on the perspectives of politically marginalized urban populations, especially those experiencing economic, natural, and/or social disasters, her work aims to share narratives of communities that are often left out of planning processes and disproportionately treated as the objects of policy expertise.