Melissa Checker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 640886 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melissa Checker |
| PRENOMES | Melissa |
| SOBRENOME | Checker |
| ASSINATURA | CHECKER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 306 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Evidence of environmental gentrification in New York City
“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”
Conclusion
“This Crosses Party Lines All over the Place”
Brown Spots on the Apple
“Democracy Has Left the Building”
Wiped Out by the Green Wave
Situated mainly in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, this chapter examines “green gentrification”—the correlation between environmental improvements and high-end real estate development. Taking an historic look at urban parks and property values, this chapter begins with nineteenth-century discourses about nature, social uplift, and morality. The symbolic value attached to green space soon correlated with material value, as parks boosted nearb…
Sustainability and the City
This chapter establishes the book’s key theoretical premises, including capitalist cycles of crisis and resolution (Marx), double-bind theory (Bateson), the spatial fix (Harvey), and capitalism and schizophrenia (Deleuze and Guattari). Using New York City as an example, it discusses how city leaders resolved economic crises through the continual exploitation of natural and human resources. The constant remaking of urban neighborhoods fueled the c…
Polluted Promises
Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has become the rallying cry for many communities as they discover the contaminations of toxic chemicals and industrial waste in their own backyards. Living next door to factories and industrial sites for years, the people in these communities often have record health problems and debilitating medical con…
The Sustainability Myth
Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development From state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City’s unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth , Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs—and contradictions—of the city’s ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equall…
Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
Stop Fema Now
Rappaport Finalist Interview
Sustainability in the Global City
Anthropological Superheroes and the Consequences of Activist Ethnography
The Conflicts of Crisis
Make Us Whole
Just after 6 p.m. on a mid-summer evening, I balanced on a small orange stool attached to a yellow Formica table, along with some 60 residents of Augusta, Georgia's Hyde Park neighborhood. As the d
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d”
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections fr…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2011
"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
This essay examines the intersection of environmental justice activism and state-sponsored sustainable urban development-how is environmental justice activism enabled or disabled in the context of rapid urban development, consensual politics and the seemingly a-political language of sustainability? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, I define a process I refer to as "environmental gentrification…
Introduction
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, June 2010
Public Anthropology
A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews
In this article, we introduce the inaugural issue of the “Public Anthropology Reviews” section. The section will, thus, expose AA readers to some of the new anthropological work appearing in a wide variety of media and nontraditional academic formats that aims both to communicate primarily with nonanthropological audiences and to have an impact on critical issues of wide social significance. We here present the reviews in this issue, identify add…
The Sustainability Myth
Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate developmentFrom state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City's unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs-and contradictions-of the city's ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally …
"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
This essay examines the intersection of environmental justice activism and state-sponsored sustainable urban development-how is environmental justice activism enabled or disabled in the context of rapid urban development, consensual politics and the seemingly a-political language of sustainability? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, I define a process I refer to as "environmental gentrification…
Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008
The themes, trends, and significant events of 2008 demonstrate that anthropology has established a new foothold in the public sphere-one that makes the most of novel forms of communication to reach far beyond the ivory tower to disseminate knowledge widely and freely. This review focuses on six topical areas of robust anthropological research in 2008 that also addressed some of the year's most pressing problems and issues, including the following…
The Conflicts of Crisis
A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews
In this article, we introduce the inaugural issue of the “Public Anthropology Reviews” section. The section will, thus, expose AA readers to some of the new anthropological work appearing in a wide variety of media and nontraditional academic formats that aims both to communicate primarily with nonanthropological audiences and to have an impact on critical issues of wide social significance. We here present the reviews in this issue, identify add…
Stop Fema Now
Anthropological Superheroes and the Consequences of Activist Ethnography
Introduction
Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves
The advent of global warming portends a worsening of “eco-apartheid,” or the unequal distribution of environmental benefits and burdens among poor and minority people. This article explores how activists in the contemporary African diaspora address current and future environmental injustices, as well as the neoliberalization of their natural resources. Using case studies, including the discriminatory siting of toxic waste facilities in the United…
Like Nixon Coming to China
This article uses ethnographic fieldwork to illustrate how a multi-ethnic group of activists in Brooklyn, New York, formed a coalition for environmental justice in thhborhood. Until the late 1980s local activists had organized in separate and antagonistic movements, competing over access to housing, schools, and police protection. However, as they increasingly realized that the environment was an urban concern, and was subject to discrimination, …
Make Us Whole
Just after 6 p.m. on a mid-summer evening, I balanced on a small orange stool attached to a yellow Formica table, along with some 60 residents of Augusta, Georgia's Hyde Park neighborhood. As the d
Environmental Justice Pushed Backwards by Bush Administration
Responsibility and Liability
Like Nixon Coming to China
This article uses ethnographic fieldwork to illustrate how a multi-ethnic group of activists in Brooklyn, New York, formed a coalition for environmental justice in thhborhood. Until the late 1980s local activists had organized in separate and antagonistic movements, competing over access to housing, schools, and police protection. However, as they increasingly realized that the environment was an urban concern, and was subject to discrimination, …
"It's In the Air"
Recently, minority activists have formed a new grassroots movement, known as environmental justice, to address toxic waste in their neighborhoods. By comparing and contrasting two environmental justice groups, this paper explores how adapting environmental discourse to traditional struggles for social justice affected grassroots minority activism. As they came to view their air, water, and soil as another aspect of life subject to institutional d…
Local Actions
Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many routes people take to work toward social change. Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country—from transgender activists in New York City, to…
"We All Have Identity at the Table"
This article focuses on conflicts and resolutions among members of a south-wide environmental justice network as they negotiated their collective goals, identities, and strategies. I find that the process of building and advancing this network raised a host of questions about what it means to be a Black activist in the post-civil rights-era, as well as how to resolve multiple and divergent ideas about contemporary African American identity and th…
Anthropology and Environment
Views on Policy
Environmental Justice Pushed Backwards by Bush Administration
Responsibility and Liability
"Stony the Road" to Change
Stony the Road" to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations. Marilyn Thomas-Houston. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 213 pp
“But I Know It’s True”
Few social issues depend as heavily on scientific information as environmental problems. Yet activists, governmental officials, corporate entities, and even scientists agree that much of the science behind environmental risk assessments is controversial and uncertain. Using a low-income African-American neighborhood as a primary case example, this paper illustrates in concrete terms how environmental risk assessments can exclude the experiences o…
Anthropologists and Policy Innovators Interface
Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves
The advent of global warming portends a worsening of “eco-apartheid,” or the unequal distribution of environmental benefits and burdens among poor and minority people. This article explores how activists in the contemporary African diaspora address current and future environmental injustices, as well as the neoliberalization of their natural resources. Using case studies, including the discriminatory siting of toxic waste facilities in the United…
Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008
The themes, trends, and significant events of 2008 demonstrate that anthropology has established a new foothold in the public sphere-one that makes the most of novel forms of communication to reach far beyond the ivory tower to disseminate knowledge widely and freely. This review focuses on six topical areas of robust anthropological research in 2008 that also addressed some of the year's most pressing problems and issues, including the following…
Toxic Exposures
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, June 2010
Public Anthropology
A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews
In this article, we introduce the inaugural issue of the “Public Anthropology Reviews” section. The section will, thus, expose AA readers to some of the new anthropological work appearing in a wide variety of media and nontraditional academic formats that aims both to communicate primarily with nonanthropological audiences and to have an impact on critical issues of wide social significance. We here present the reviews in this issue, identify add…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, December 2010
Flammable
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d”
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections fr…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2011
"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
This essay examines the intersection of environmental justice activism and state-sponsored sustainable urban development-how is environmental justice activism enabled or disabled in the context of rapid urban development, consensual politics and the seemingly a-political language of sustainability? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, I define a process I refer to as "environmental gentrification…
Introduction
Make Us Whole
Just after 6 p.m. on a mid-summer evening, I balanced on a small orange stool attached to a yellow Formica table, along with some 60 residents of Augusta, Georgia's Hyde Park neighborhood. As the d
Sustainability in the Global City
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