Urban specters

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4475840
AutoresAsha Best (Clark University), Margaret Marietta Ramírez (0000-0002-2325-9790, Simon Fraser University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen39
Número6
Páginas1043-1054
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758211030286
OpenAlexW4253277102
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas15

In this piece, we take up haunting as a spatial method to consider what geography can learn from ghosts. Following Avery Gordon's theorizations of haunting as a sociological method, a consideration of the spectral offers a means of reckoning with the shadows of social life that are not always readily apparent. Drawing upon art installations in Brooklyn, NY, White Shoes (2012-2016), and Oakland, CA, House/Full of BlackWomen (2015-present), we find that in both installations, Black women artists perform hauntings, threading geographies of race, sex, and speculation across past and present. We observe how these installations operate through spectacle, embodiment, and temporal disjuncture, illuminating how Black life and labor have been central to the construction of property and urban space in the United States. In what follows, we explore the following questions: what does haunting reveal about the relationship between property, personhood, and the urban in a time of racial banishment? And the second, how might we think of haunting as a mode of refusing displacement, banishment, and archival erasure as a way of imagining "livable" urban futures in which Black life is neither static nor obsolete

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Futures contract · Personhood · Political science · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Spectacle · Speculation · Urban space · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies