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1. Intersections of Race, Waste, and Space in the Production of Environmental Injustice.

Author

Dillon, Lindsey

Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL sociology, GENTRIFICATION, ENVIRONMENTAL justice, EQUALITY, JUSTICE, URBAN planning, DUST
Abstract

Scholars have demonstrated how gentrification and urban change produce new social and economic inequalities. "Green gentrification" is proposed as a term referring to the ways these inequalities increasingly take place through discourses of nature and sustainability. This paper examines urban environmental changes in Bayview-Hunters Point, a neighborhood in the southeastern corner of San Francisco. Based on ten years of engaged fieldwork, I show how long-time Black Bayview-Hunters Point residents live with, suffer the health consequences of, and protest the dusts of market-based redevelopment. Their experiences reveal how gentrification does not only produce social and economic inequalities, but can produce distinct forms of environmental injustice. This paper brings critical spatial theory and the "new materialisms" literature into conversation with environmental sociology, and specifically with scholarship on environmental justice. I contribute to an "intersectional environmental justice" framework (Malin and Ryder 2018) by considering the interlocking nature of race, waste, and space in the production of environmental injustices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019

2. NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES: A CULTURAL MAP OF THE BEAT GENERATION.

Author

COSMA, ANDREEA

Subjects
BEAT generation, POLITICAL movements, URBAN policy, SOCIAL movements, EQUALITY, ACTIVISM, TOPOGRAPHIC maps
Abstract

This paper explores the topographical and socio-cultural developments during the Golden Age in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, three Beat Generation epicenters, which determined the deconstruction of traditional norms. Modifications at both city and society levels were represented by the emergence of countercultures, such as the Beat. The visibility received by urban problems, due to the increase in social demonstrations and activism, fostered the formation of a unified front that demanded equality and encouraged social and political movements, such as the Civil Rights and the Second Wave Feminism. The socio-political challenges which the American society was confronted with from the 1950s to the 1970s in these three cities, also reveal a few problems regarding the status of the Beats as well as of minorities in metropolises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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3. 'I Name It and I Claim It--In the Name of Jesus, This Job Is Mine': Job Search, Networks, and Careers for Low-Income Women.

Author

Chapple, Karen

Subjects
EQUALITY, OCCUPATIONS & society, WOMEN employees, LABOR market, JOB hunting
Abstract

Presents a study that examined why job histories differ, with particular focus on how the use of social contacts reinforces and reproduces inequality for low-income women in San Francisco, California. Discussion on variation within the labor market segment; Information on the factors that affect job search; Background on human capital theory.

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2002
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