Ecological Gentrification: A Research Agenda Exploring Justice in the City

作者：Sarah Dooling · 发表于：International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 年份：2009 · DOI：10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00860.x · 被引用次数：523 · 研究领域：Water Governance and Infrastructure、Geographies of human-animal interactions、Homelessness and Social Issues

Abstract In this symposium convened to celebrate the tenth anniversary of David Harvey's Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference , it is fitting to re‐visit key themes in that seminal work, including: (1) the mutual reciprocity between social and environmental changes; and (2) the contradictions that emerge from a dialectical analysis of these changes in urban spaces. In challenging scholars to explore the spatial dialectics associated with environmental and social changes, Harvey's political and intellectual project included demonstrating the dialectical linkages between notions of justice and nature in urban environments. My work responds to Harvey's challenge by documenting how the ideological constructions of home , homeless and public green space produce and perpetuate injustices experienced materially and spatially in the daily lives of homeless people living in urban green spaces. Using Agamben's notion of bare life as my analytic framework, I explore two issues: (1) the disconnection between notions of home articulated by homeless people living in green spaces and the ideological constructions of homeless espoused by government and planning agencies; and (2) the tensions in urban green spaces resulting from homeless people who have opted to live there because all other options are not viable for them, and the ideological constructions of urban green spaces developed by the city parks department and housed citizens involved in planning for future green spaces i...