Christopher Mele
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 206240 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher Mele |
| NOMBRES | Christopher |
| APELLIDO | Mele |
| FIRMA | MELE C |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 181 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Race and the Politics of Deception
What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales? In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space. Mele focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania—a small city comprised of primarily low-income, black residents, roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia. Like many …
The strategic uses of race to legitimize 'social mix' urban redevelopment
This article contends examines how racialization – the strategic employment of racial discourses to both define- and legitimize-specific social and spatial changes – serves as an adaptive and strategic means for city leaders and developers to control, define, plan and implement efforts to reshape impoverished neighborhoods. The deployment of racial tropes and narratives, such as diversity and ‘social mix’, organize and make legible redevelopment …
Urban Uneven Development
Research on urban uneven development focuses primarily on the production of urban space as a commodity for capitalist accumulation. The free movement of capital in search of higher investment returns produces recurrent patterns of spatial unevenness; as one place is subject to disinvestment and declines, another place benefits from (re)investment and thrives. Research has shown the importance of social and cultural factors that mediate or acceler…
Film-induced pilgrimage and contested heritage space in Taipei City
Using’ race in the politics of siting environmentally hazardous facilities
The question on how to best conceptualize race and racism continues to remain relevant to current environmental justice research; concepts of race as demographic-compositional and racism as structural remain dominant but neither sufficiently captures how race and racism may be implicated in the process of siting environmentally hazardous facilities. This article adopts a third approach that demonstrates how discursive dimensions of race are deplo…
Governance within public–private partnerships and the politics of urban development
Public-private partnerships are the preferred vehicles for the planning, financing and implementation of contemporary urban development. Scholarship on public-private partnerships tends to examine their activities in advancing development. Less attention is accorded to their internal dynamics or governance. While partnerships are intended to build internal consensus and obtain consent in order to carry out urban development, this premise assumes …
Spatial order through the family
This article examines the regulation of urban public space through a study of the role of the family unit in past and present urban development in Singapore. Since the founding of modern Singapore 50 years ago, the nuclear family has remained the preferred social institution for state policies and subsequent regulation of education, housing, employment, health, leisure, social welfare and even neighborhood development. Drawing on primary governme…
Urban Nightlife
Revisiting the Citadel and the Ghetto
The author examines the relevance of racial discourses to neoliberal urban development occurring in older, former industrial cities in the United States. Rather than treating the production of new development spaces as separate from the adjacent inner-city neighborhoods, the author focuses on the significance of race to "making sense of," and, in turn, legitimizing the stark contrasts between revitalized enclaves and the inner city as a central c…
Urban markets as a ‘corrective’ to advanced urbanism
The renewed popularity of urban markets has generated substantial attention among policymakers, planners and urban scholars. In addition to their potential local economic impact, markets provide spaces for a variety of social exchanges and interactions that may strengthen communal ties, reproduce existing social tensions or simply reflect everyday diversity; consequently, the social functions of urban markets differ depending on the specific soci…
Race, Space, and Exclusion
Foreword by Nancy A. Denton 1. Racial Exclusion and Spatial Inequality in Metropolitan America by Christopher Mele and Robert M. Adelman Section 1: Racial Exclusion in Policy and Practice 2. Homeownership Expansion, Suburbanization, and Residential Segregation by Greg Mills and Mary J. Fischer 3. Fair Housing and Residential Segregation by Deirdre Oakley 4. The Lifecourse Perspective and Explaining Racial Residential Segregation by Kris Marsh and…
Civil Penalties, Social Consequences
Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and housing opportunities. This much-needed work contains pieces by scholars in law, criminology, and sociology, including: Scott Christianson, Michael Li…
Neoliberalism, Race and the Redefining of Urban Redevelopment
Neoliberal urban redevelopment is often represented as consensual, socially-neutral 'local economic development' with a positive effect on both a city's overall economy and its level of racial and ethnic diversity. The purpose of this article is to focus specifically on the key ideological premises of color-blind racial discourses that help facilitate and provide necessary legitimacy (and ideological cover) for neoliberal urban redevelopment in a…
The Urban Sociology Reader
Urban Sociology Reader
Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators, and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development
Neoliberal urban development, as a set of governance practices and regulations intended to valorize cities as sites for capital accumulation, has increased social polarization and produced enclaves or “cities within cities.” Local governments have relinquished administrative and legal control to private corporations over how certain areas in the city are developed and used (or “consumed”) and by whom. In this article I examine the emergence of go…
Understanding the City
Urban Redevelopment as Contingent Process
In this article, we generate a “middle–ground” perspective to interrogate the range of interactions between political economic processes and everyday practices in the study of urban redevelopment. Focusing on the contested redevelopment of residential, commercial, and public spaces in the Spandauer Vorstadt neighborhood of Berlin, we examine how institutions and individuals incorporated certain local everyday practices and behaviors into renewal …
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Selling the Lower East Side
The Materiality of Urban Discourse
The author uses poststructuralist advances in discourse analysis to examine the ways the circulation of symbolic representations and characterizations of the city are useful to understanding urban restructuring. He defines the relationship between discourses about the city and the material or spatial practices that transform the built environment, and then he examines how stake-holders translate, adapt, and employ discourse about the inner city t…
Asserting the Political Self
In this article, I address the collective process of politicization in a group of urban working-class black women who have departed from large cities in the northeast United States and resettled in small towns and scattered, isolated rural communities in the Southeast. The study examines how newcomes became politically involved in their new environment and particularly, how social constraints and opportunities embedded within local political cult…
The Internet and Demystifying Power Differentials
Over the course of the past three years, a group of women residents of a forty-five-year-old public housing project have struggled with the housing authority to participate in the revitalization of that project. This article examines the emergence of a “critical consciousness” and action on the part of these women as a consequence of their going on-line on the Internet with their own home page. This article also looks at the historical and social…
The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City
Globalization, Culture, and Neighborhood Change
Globalization of the production, distribution, and consumption of culture has affected the identity of locale or neighborhood. In many instances, local cultural forms, such as music and art, are appropriated for international consumer markets. The author analyzes the effect of global appropriation on urban form. The emerging global cultural economy creates new opportunities for place entrepreneurs to redevelop poor neighborhoods and challenges th…
Selling the Lower East Side
Globalization, Culture, and Neighborhood Change
Globalization of the production, distribution, and consumption of culture has affected the identity of locale or neighborhood. In many instances, local cultural forms, such as music and art, are appropriated for international consumer markets. The author analyzes the effect of global appropriation on urban form. The emerging global cultural economy creates new opportunities for place entrepreneurs to redevelop poor neighborhoods and challenges th…
Neoliberalism, Race and the Redefining of Urban Redevelopment
Neoliberal urban redevelopment is often represented as consensual, socially-neutral 'local economic development' with a positive effect on both a city's overall economy and its level of racial and ethnic diversity. The purpose of this article is to focus specifically on the key ideological premises of color-blind racial discourses that help facilitate and provide necessary legitimacy (and ideological cover) for neoliberal urban redevelopment in a…
Urban markets as a ‘corrective’ to advanced urbanism
The renewed popularity of urban markets has generated substantial attention among policymakers, planners and urban scholars. In addition to their potential local economic impact, markets provide spaces for a variety of social exchanges and interactions that may strengthen communal ties, reproduce existing social tensions or simply reflect everyday diversity; consequently, the social functions of urban markets differ depending on the specific soci…
The Materiality of Urban Discourse
The author uses poststructuralist advances in discourse analysis to examine the ways the circulation of symbolic representations and characterizations of the city are useful to understanding urban restructuring. He defines the relationship between discourses about the city and the material or spatial practices that transform the built environment, and then he examines how stake-holders translate, adapt, and employ discourse about the inner city t…
Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators, and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development
Neoliberal urban development, as a set of governance practices and regulations intended to valorize cities as sites for capital accumulation, has increased social polarization and produced enclaves or “cities within cities.” Local governments have relinquished administrative and legal control to private corporations over how certain areas in the city are developed and used (or “consumed”) and by whom. In this article I examine the emergence of go…
The strategic uses of race to legitimize 'social mix' urban redevelopment
This article contends examines how racialization – the strategic employment of racial discourses to both define- and legitimize-specific social and spatial changes – serves as an adaptive and strategic means for city leaders and developers to control, define, plan and implement efforts to reshape impoverished neighborhoods. The deployment of racial tropes and narratives, such as diversity and ‘social mix’, organize and make legible redevelopment …
Revisiting the Citadel and the Ghetto
The author examines the relevance of racial discourses to neoliberal urban development occurring in older, former industrial cities in the United States. Rather than treating the production of new development spaces as separate from the adjacent inner-city neighborhoods, the author focuses on the significance of race to "making sense of," and, in turn, legitimizing the stark contrasts between revitalized enclaves and the inner city as a central c…
Spatial order through the family
This article examines the regulation of urban public space through a study of the role of the family unit in past and present urban development in Singapore. Since the founding of modern Singapore 50 years ago, the nuclear family has remained the preferred social institution for state policies and subsequent regulation of education, housing, employment, health, leisure, social welfare and even neighborhood development. Drawing on primary governme…
Governance within public–private partnerships and the politics of urban development
Public-private partnerships are the preferred vehicles for the planning, financing and implementation of contemporary urban development. Scholarship on public-private partnerships tends to examine their activities in advancing development. Less attention is accorded to their internal dynamics or governance. While partnerships are intended to build internal consensus and obtain consent in order to carry out urban development, this premise assumes …
Asserting the Political Self
In this article, I address the collective process of politicization in a group of urban working-class black women who have departed from large cities in the northeast United States and resettled in small towns and scattered, isolated rural communities in the Southeast. The study examines how newcomes became politically involved in their new environment and particularly, how social constraints and opportunities embedded within local political cult…
Using’ race in the politics of siting environmentally hazardous facilities
The question on how to best conceptualize race and racism continues to remain relevant to current environmental justice research; concepts of race as demographic-compositional and racism as structural remain dominant but neither sufficiently captures how race and racism may be implicated in the process of siting environmentally hazardous facilities. This article adopts a third approach that demonstrates how discursive dimensions of race are deplo…
Urban Redevelopment as Contingent Process
In this article, we generate a “middle–ground” perspective to interrogate the range of interactions between political economic processes and everyday practices in the study of urban redevelopment. Focusing on the contested redevelopment of residential, commercial, and public spaces in the Spandauer Vorstadt neighborhood of Berlin, we examine how institutions and individuals incorporated certain local everyday practices and behaviors into renewal …
Urban Nightlife
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Globalization, Culture, and Neighborhood Change
Globalization of the production, distribution, and consumption of culture has affected the identity of locale or neighborhood. In many instances, local cultural forms, such as music and art, are appropriated for international consumer markets. The author analyzes the effect of global appropriation on urban form. The emerging global cultural economy creates new opportunities for place entrepreneurs to redevelop poor neighborhoods and challenges th…
The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City
The Internet and Demystifying Power Differentials
Over the course of the past three years, a group of women residents of a forty-five-year-old public housing project have struggled with the housing authority to participate in the revitalization of that project. This article examines the emergence of a “critical consciousness” and action on the part of these women as a consequence of their going on-line on the Internet with their own home page. This article also looks at the historical and social…
Selling the Lower East Side
The Materiality of Urban Discourse
The author uses poststructuralist advances in discourse analysis to examine the ways the circulation of symbolic representations and characterizations of the city are useful to understanding urban restructuring. He defines the relationship between discourses about the city and the material or spatial practices that transform the built environment, and then he examines how stake-holders translate, adapt, and employ discourse about the inner city t…
Asserting the Political Self
In this article, I address the collective process of politicization in a group of urban working-class black women who have departed from large cities in the northeast United States and resettled in small towns and scattered, isolated rural communities in the Southeast. The study examines how newcomes became politically involved in their new environment and particularly, how social constraints and opportunities embedded within local political cult…
Urban Redevelopment as Contingent Process
In this article, we generate a “middle–ground” perspective to interrogate the range of interactions between political economic processes and everyday practices in the study of urban redevelopment. Focusing on the contested redevelopment of residential, commercial, and public spaces in the Spandauer Vorstadt neighborhood of Berlin, we examine how institutions and individuals incorporated certain local everyday practices and behaviors into renewal …
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Understanding the City
Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators, and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development
Neoliberal urban development, as a set of governance practices and regulations intended to valorize cities as sites for capital accumulation, has increased social polarization and produced enclaves or “cities within cities.” Local governments have relinquished administrative and legal control to private corporations over how certain areas in the city are developed and used (or “consumed”) and by whom. In this article I examine the emergence of go…
The Urban Sociology Reader
Urban Sociology Reader
Civil Penalties, Social Consequences
Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and housing opportunities. This much-needed work contains pieces by scholars in law, criminology, and sociology, including: Scott Christianson, Michael Li…
Neoliberalism, Race and the Redefining of Urban Redevelopment
Neoliberal urban redevelopment is often represented as consensual, socially-neutral 'local economic development' with a positive effect on both a city's overall economy and its level of racial and ethnic diversity. The purpose of this article is to focus specifically on the key ideological premises of color-blind racial discourses that help facilitate and provide necessary legitimacy (and ideological cover) for neoliberal urban redevelopment in a…
Race, Space, and Exclusion
Foreword by Nancy A. Denton 1. Racial Exclusion and Spatial Inequality in Metropolitan America by Christopher Mele and Robert M. Adelman Section 1: Racial Exclusion in Policy and Practice 2. Homeownership Expansion, Suburbanization, and Residential Segregation by Greg Mills and Mary J. Fischer 3. Fair Housing and Residential Segregation by Deirdre Oakley 4. The Lifecourse Perspective and Explaining Racial Residential Segregation by Kris Marsh and…
Urban markets as a ‘corrective’ to advanced urbanism
The renewed popularity of urban markets has generated substantial attention among policymakers, planners and urban scholars. In addition to their potential local economic impact, markets provide spaces for a variety of social exchanges and interactions that may strengthen communal ties, reproduce existing social tensions or simply reflect everyday diversity; consequently, the social functions of urban markets differ depending on the specific soci…
Using’ race in the politics of siting environmentally hazardous facilities
The question on how to best conceptualize race and racism continues to remain relevant to current environmental justice research; concepts of race as demographic-compositional and racism as structural remain dominant but neither sufficiently captures how race and racism may be implicated in the process of siting environmentally hazardous facilities. This article adopts a third approach that demonstrates how discursive dimensions of race are deplo…
Governance within public–private partnerships and the politics of urban development
Public-private partnerships are the preferred vehicles for the planning, financing and implementation of contemporary urban development. Scholarship on public-private partnerships tends to examine their activities in advancing development. Less attention is accorded to their internal dynamics or governance. While partnerships are intended to build internal consensus and obtain consent in order to carry out urban development, this premise assumes …
Spatial order through the family
This article examines the regulation of urban public space through a study of the role of the family unit in past and present urban development in Singapore. Since the founding of modern Singapore 50 years ago, the nuclear family has remained the preferred social institution for state policies and subsequent regulation of education, housing, employment, health, leisure, social welfare and even neighborhood development. Drawing on primary governme…
Urban Nightlife
Revisiting the Citadel and the Ghetto
The author examines the relevance of racial discourses to neoliberal urban development occurring in older, former industrial cities in the United States. Rather than treating the production of new development spaces as separate from the adjacent inner-city neighborhoods, the author focuses on the significance of race to "making sense of," and, in turn, legitimizing the stark contrasts between revitalized enclaves and the inner city as a central c…
Urban Uneven Development
Research on urban uneven development focuses primarily on the production of urban space as a commodity for capitalist accumulation. The free movement of capital in search of higher investment returns produces recurrent patterns of spatial unevenness; as one place is subject to disinvestment and declines, another place benefits from (re)investment and thrives. Research has shown the importance of social and cultural factors that mediate or acceler…
Film-induced pilgrimage and contested heritage space in Taipei City
The strategic uses of race to legitimize 'social mix' urban redevelopment
This article contends examines how racialization – the strategic employment of racial discourses to both define- and legitimize-specific social and spatial changes – serves as an adaptive and strategic means for city leaders and developers to control, define, plan and implement efforts to reshape impoverished neighborhoods. The deployment of racial tropes and narratives, such as diversity and ‘social mix’, organize and make legible redevelopment …
Race and the Politics of Deception
What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales? In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space. Mele focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania—a small city comprised of primarily low-income, black residents, roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia. Like many …
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