Summer Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5000150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Summer Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Summer |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1661-179X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Green on both sides
Urban greening projects are increasingly promoted as win-win solutions for climate resilience. Yet even well-intentioned initiatives can provoke conflict when they intersect with contested landscapes, competing environmental values, and uneven access to decision-making power. This article introduces the concept of procedural environmentalism to analyze how actors mobilize competing environmental claims to influence land use decisions through the …
Why does institutional vulnerability matter? Perceptions of community members from the 2018 Montecito debris flows in California
Privileged vulnerability
Purpose This aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of privileged vulnerability, highlighting the interconnected relationships that sustain social and environmental injustices in disaster contexts while emphasizing the link between environmental privilege, risk and the production of vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on Montecito, California, as a case study, a historical-structural approach is used to examine how affluence…
A song in a cold place
The emotions of youth climate justice activists are often demeaned or misrepresented both by popular media and by COP organisers. The COP itself, as a cold, bureaucratic, and repressive space that tokenises frontline voices to create an optics of care, is a source of frustration and disappointment for many youth activists. Despite this misrepresentation and repression, youth activists use their emotions to strengthen their movements and actions a…
Rethinking disaster utopia
While some communities appear to blossom in the wake of a disaster, others are left to struggle in the ashes. This paper introduces the concept of ‘conspicuous resilience’ to understand how emergent community‐based recovery efforts privilege some needs while marginalising others, contributing to uneven forms of recovery. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the deadly Montecito debris flow in Southern California, United States, in January 2018,…
Flows of Injustice
As the climate crisis intensifies, recovery efforts increasingly occur at the interface of diverse landscapes and overlapping struggles for justice. To better understand the environmental justice implications of climate disruption and uneven recovery, this article casts a critical light on disaster waste. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a deadly debris flow in California and the dumping of toxic sediment on public beaches, I provide a “flo…
Evacuation choice before and after major debris flows
What is marine justice
Rethinking disaster utopia
While some communities appear to blossom in the wake of a disaster, others are left to struggle in the ashes. This paper introduces the concept of ‘conspicuous resilience’ to understand how emergent community‐based recovery efforts privilege some needs while marginalising others, contributing to uneven forms of recovery. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the deadly Montecito debris flow in Southern California, United States, in January 2018,…
What is marine justice
What is marine justice
Evacuation choice before and after major debris flows
Flows of Injustice
As the climate crisis intensifies, recovery efforts increasingly occur at the interface of diverse landscapes and overlapping struggles for justice. To better understand the environmental justice implications of climate disruption and uneven recovery, this article casts a critical light on disaster waste. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a deadly debris flow in California and the dumping of toxic sediment on public beaches, I provide a “flo…
Rethinking disaster utopia
While some communities appear to blossom in the wake of a disaster, others are left to struggle in the ashes. This paper introduces the concept of ‘conspicuous resilience’ to understand how emergent community‐based recovery efforts privilege some needs while marginalising others, contributing to uneven forms of recovery. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the deadly Montecito debris flow in Southern California, United States, in January 2018,…
A song in a cold place
The emotions of youth climate justice activists are often demeaned or misrepresented both by popular media and by COP organisers. The COP itself, as a cold, bureaucratic, and repressive space that tokenises frontline voices to create an optics of care, is a source of frustration and disappointment for many youth activists. Despite this misrepresentation and repression, youth activists use their emotions to strengthen their movements and actions a…
Why does institutional vulnerability matter? Perceptions of community members from the 2018 Montecito debris flows in California
Privileged vulnerability
Purpose This aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of privileged vulnerability, highlighting the interconnected relationships that sustain social and environmental injustices in disaster contexts while emphasizing the link between environmental privilege, risk and the production of vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on Montecito, California, as a case study, a historical-structural approach is used to examine how affluence…
Green on both sides
Urban greening projects are increasingly promoted as win-win solutions for climate resilience. Yet even well-intentioned initiatives can provoke conflict when they intersect with contested landscapes, competing environmental values, and uneven access to decision-making power. This article introduces the concept of procedural environmentalism to analyze how actors mobilize competing environmental claims to influence land use decisions through the …
Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer security (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works)