Gentrification with Justice’

An Urban Ministry Collective and the Practice of Place-making in Atlanta’s Inner-city Neighbourhoods

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10859634
AutoresKatherine Hankins (0000-0002-5486-2656, Georgia State University, autor de correspondencia), Andy Walter (University of West Georgia)
Año2012
Volumen49
Número7
Páginas1507-1526
Fecha de publicación2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098011415434
OpenAlexW2145422281
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas41

Scholars and policy-makers have increasingly sought to understand the relationship between poverty and place in the inner city. This paper examines the spatiality of an anti-poverty strategy called ‘gentrification with justice’ and implemented by an urban ministry collective in three neighbourhoods in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This place-based approach centres on the movement of middle-class ‘strategic neighbours’ into impoverished neighbourhoods as a way to transform the local socio-spatial dialectic of poverty. The urban ministry collective draws upon notions of diverse community, social justice, the ‘where’ of faithful practice and a faith-governed market in seeking to redevelop neighbourhoods. Based on archival analysis and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with leaders and members of the urban ministry collective, this paper provides a deeper understanding of the place-making role that faith-motivated actors play in local contexts of poverty

Atlanta · Dialectic · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Faith · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance