When top-down infrastructures fail

Spaces and practices of care and community under Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3977677
AutoresJordin Clark (0000-0002-9601-1796, Wabash College, autor de correspondencia), Solange Muñoz (0000-0001-5353-184X, University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Jeremy Auerbach (0000-0003-0061-7943, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s Belfast University, Belfast, UK)
Año2023
Volumen24
Número3-4
Páginas542-562
Fecha de publicación2023-03-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2022.2115119
OpenAlexW4293798136
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas24

Throughout this article, we focus on the lives and experiences of residents in the Sun Valley public housing project in Denver. During the stay-at-home orders, the Sun Valley residents – an economically impoverished yet diverse community that includes refugees, Black and LatinX families, single-parent households, and individuals who are permanently disabled – faced extremely precarious conditions. COVID exposed and exacerbated the already failed infrastructures in Sun Valley, but within this failure, radical openings emerged, new connections surfaced and alternative practices developed among the residents leading to vernacular infrastructures of care. To understand and highlight these vernacular infrastructures, we utilized a combination of photography and interviews to understand 17 residents' and key community support actors' experiences during the initial stay-at-home orders from March to June 2020. From this data, we argue that, through community practices and relationships, Sun Valley residents' and community support networks addressed the crisis and uncertainty by developing vernacular infrastructures of care

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economic growth · Economics · Focus group · Geography · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Vernacular · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Urban Planning and Governance