Rea Zaimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rea Zaimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rea |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaimi |
| SIGNATURE | ZAIMI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0284-3744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Collateral Afterlives
Between 2014 and 2020, Chicago's Large Lots program sold hundreds of city‐owned lots for one dollar to property owners across the city's South and West Sides. While planners invoked histories of racialized dispossession to legitimize this new land market, they restricted participation to property owners, thereby naturalizing the configurations of power and capital produced by those histories while enabling their beneficiaries to acquire discounte…
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment
Between 2014 and 2020, the city of Chicago sold hundreds of city-owned lots for a dollar to property owners across its South and West Side neighborhoods through the Large Lots program. An expedient way of returning city land to tax rolls and offsetting its holding costs, the city cast Large Lots as an effort to empower residents and turn vacant lots into vibrant neighborhoods. This article examines the labor of making vibrant neighborhoods. Again…
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary
In National Historic Landmarks across North America, Laura Pulido unearths the production of a cultural memory that preserves the myth of white innocence by systematically denying the constitutive role of colonialism and chattel slavery in the territorial development of the United States. In this reflection essay, I read Pulido’s paper alongside James Baldwin’s writings on white innocence to highlight two of its many timely contributions to theor…
"Rethinking "Disinvestment
As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of planning and policy efforts, Chicago planners and private institutions attribute it to "disinvestment" and seek to remove barriers to real estate investment in order to unlock the market's purported ability to bring land to "productive use." Drawing on findings from an analysis of nearly 10,000 postwar property records in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, this article demonst…
Making Real Estate Markets
Analysing the standardisation of appraisal alongside the development of modern real estate markets in the early 20 th century, this article demonstrates that the construction of a racialised proper(tied) economic subjectivity was pivotal for realtors’ ability to secure legitimacy and profit as a burgeoning profession. Appraisal embedded racial logics within real estate markets such that their routine functioning could generate the submarket diffe…
"Rethinking "Disinvestment
As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of planning and policy efforts, Chicago planners and private institutions attribute it to "disinvestment" and seek to remove barriers to real estate investment in order to unlock the market's purported ability to bring land to "productive use." Drawing on findings from an analysis of nearly 10,000 postwar property records in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, this article demonst…
Making Real Estate Markets
Analysing the standardisation of appraisal alongside the development of modern real estate markets in the early 20 th century, this article demonstrates that the construction of a racialised proper(tied) economic subjectivity was pivotal for realtors’ ability to secure legitimacy and profit as a burgeoning profession. Appraisal embedded racial logics within real estate markets such that their routine functioning could generate the submarket diffe…
Making Real Estate Markets
Analysing the standardisation of appraisal alongside the development of modern real estate markets in the early 20 th century, this article demonstrates that the construction of a racialised proper(tied) economic subjectivity was pivotal for realtors’ ability to secure legitimacy and profit as a burgeoning profession. Appraisal embedded racial logics within real estate markets such that their routine functioning could generate the submarket diffe…
"Rethinking "Disinvestment
As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of planning and policy efforts, Chicago planners and private institutions attribute it to "disinvestment" and seek to remove barriers to real estate investment in order to unlock the market's purported ability to bring land to "productive use." Drawing on findings from an analysis of nearly 10,000 postwar property records in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, this article demonst…
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary
In National Historic Landmarks across North America, Laura Pulido unearths the production of a cultural memory that preserves the myth of white innocence by systematically denying the constitutive role of colonialism and chattel slavery in the territorial development of the United States. In this reflection essay, I read Pulido’s paper alongside James Baldwin’s writings on white innocence to highlight two of its many timely contributions to theor…
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment
Between 2014 and 2020, the city of Chicago sold hundreds of city-owned lots for a dollar to property owners across its South and West Side neighborhoods through the Large Lots program. An expedient way of returning city land to tax rolls and offsetting its holding costs, the city cast Large Lots as an effort to empower residents and turn vacant lots into vibrant neighborhoods. This article examines the labor of making vibrant neighborhoods. Again…
Collateral Afterlives
Between 2014 and 2020, Chicago's Large Lots program sold hundreds of city‐owned lots for one dollar to property owners across the city's South and West Sides. While planners invoked histories of racialized dispossession to legitimize this new land market, they restricted participation to property owners, thereby naturalizing the configurations of power and capital produced by those histories while enabling their beneficiaries to acquire discounte…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)