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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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he dedication to Eric Stanley’s (2021) Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable reads simply, “For those lost to the world and all who remain as its antagonism.” From these opening lines through all its pages, this staggering text maintains a project of both honouring and hailing; honouring the lives and memories of trans, queer and/ or gender non-conforming people of color lost to racialized and gendered violence in the United States, and hailing “all who remain” to become ungovernable in the face of structural antagonizing violence. Writing with care and fierce determination, and drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews as well as a wide array of anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer and trans scholarship, Stanley precisely and compellingly analyses the ways in which advances in LGBTQ rights in the US have perpetuated rather than ameliorated an ‘atmosphere of violence.’ Turning away from a politics of inclusion and recognition, they push us toward abolitionist futures that will yield livable lives.
This forum includes four responses to Atmospheres of Violence and a reply from its author. Ren-yo Hwang powerfully highlights Stanley’s “focus on the testimonies at ‘the end of the world’” and its mandate for readers “to not turn away from the terror and beauty that is the breaking away and breaking free from the slow infliction of a deathworld characterized by fear and the abuse of power.” K’eguro Macharia writes movingly of the ways in which reading Stanley’s text was difficult for “how it maps the banal ways trans* and queer name vulnerability to killability,” while also praising the care that Stanley takes in narrating these “archives of disposability.” Mel Y. Chen dwells on Stanley’s investments in abolitionism and ungovernability, and how the book, even as it rejects ‘proper feeling,’ is alive with love in the face of the law’s “ever more explicit terror.” SA Smythe discusses Stanley’s anarchic approach to the project of “rememory,” noting its sustained attention on insurgencies “in part by holding forth a litany of immeasurable loss that does not reduce those lives to yet another record or another rote counting.” In addition to their essay, Smythe beautifully offers a graphic poem titled “Requiem for an Ending Where Nobodies Never Die.” Finally, Stanley offers thoughts on “hope and nonhope,” noting that the “archive of destruction” with which AOV grapples has only intensified since the book’s publication, and concluding that “if anti-trans-queer violence is atmospheric, so too must be our resistance.”
Natalie Oswin is an associate professor of human geography at the University of Toronto Scarorough, and managing editor of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and the Society and Space Magazine.
