A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Although focused on buildings that have since been destroyed, the tone of this genealogy is not mournful. It instead is generative, revealing the creative outputs that have emerged and continue to shape this district. It demonstrates how architecture transforms and is transformed by a range of living and nonliving agents.
Although focused on buildings that have since been destroyed, the tone of this genealogy is not mournful. It instead is generative, revealing the creative outputs that have emerged and continue to shape this district. It demonstrates how architecture transforms and is transformed by a range of living and nonliving agents.
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility by Andrea Noelani Brower offers a powerful critique of Hawaiʻi's GMO industry that gives us a roadmap for liberation, solidarity, and abundance in the face of corporate dominance.
Black Disability Politics is a critical intervention in a field that remains tethered to white ways of knowing and being.
In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and argues for measuring social movements’ impact in a manner that foregrounds the production the brick-and-mortar achievements of community organizations, as well as the networks of support, solidarity and care that those sites and landscapes continue to facilitate.
In Animal Traffic, Rosemary-Claire Collard combines Marxist theory with animal studies to offer a powerful analysis of how capitalism structures human-animal relations, and what the “oddity” (2020: 8) of the exotic pet case can teach us about our more common relations with animals.
Citizen Designs is a careful depiction of what democracy feels like, with all its discomforts, disagreements, and unresolved tensions. Elinoff manages to present a picture of the struggle for equal citizenship that is at once optimistic and unromantic. In this, the book makes a timely and important contribution to understandings of the relationship between politics and design
Though not an exhaustive list, these are many of the main areas we cover.