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cholars and practitioners of urban planning need to rethink the field’s futures at this important historical juncture: some might call it a moment of truth when there is little left to hide. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, contradictions, and inequalities that have always existed but are now more visible. This also includes the global vaccine apartheid that is ongoing as I write these words. Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
- Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
- Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
- They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining.
- I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
- Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
- Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
- They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Geographers Caleb Johnston and Gerry Pratt provide the following field note from their recent trip to Manila to mount their play Nanay, along with a brief clip from one of the play’s performances.
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In November 2013 we worked with theatre artists from Canada and in the Philippines to present our performance installation, Nanay: a testimonial play, to audiences in Manila, at the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). The play has been developed from Geraldine Pratt’s research into the lives of Filipina foreign domestic workers in Canada, as well as the circumstances of the employers who hire them. It is a series of monologues and scenes developed verbatim from interview transcripts, which are performed in different spaces throughout the theatre for small audiences of fifteen to thirty. Shown here is one scene from the Manila production, the monologue of a child who tells of being left with her father in the Philippines and then rejoining her mother in Vancouver after a long period of separation while her mother fulfilled the requirements of Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program. The rationale for the play is to bring academic research to a wider audience and to use the occasion to stimulate intimate public debate. Given the new context and in response to earlier criticism, we rewrote and restaged sections of the play in order to engage audiences from the perspective of the Philippines.
One criticism of the earlier performances (staged in Vancouver and Berlin) is that monologues presented Filipina domestic workers as isolated victims; there was no scene where the vibrant organizing of migrant workers was shown. And so, in preparation for our Manila production, we staged and video-recorded a conversation with members of Migrante BC in Vancouver. We used some of this material in this scene to accentuate the challenges of family separation and the stresses of caring at a distance. Several of the participants in the videoed conversation are well known activists in Vancouver; we anticipated that they would be read as such by at least some of the members of our Manila audience. The Manila PETA-based actor, Anj Heruela, addresses her narrative of her troubles and successes as the child of a migrant worker both to the audience and to the women in the video; one of these women is presumably her mother, who is otherwise engaged in a close community of domestic workers in Vancouver. [vc_video title="Nanay" link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w97C8dfT5s"]
