Waging Class Struggle With Plants

Intra-class differentiation and greening labor in a public housing project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2263133
AuthorsJohn Burdick (Syracuse University)
Year2020
Volume32
Issue2
Pages448-474
Publication date2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ciso.12313
OpenAlexW3042410076
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited44

Intra-class differentiation needs to be brought back into the analysis of gentrification. In this article I argue that in the context of gentrifying pressures, greenspaces are an important site of struggle between segments of the working class. By paying attention to how different clusters of low-income residents in a housing project in Rio de Janeiro deploy plants, we gain insight into differently-situated working-class life projects, and into how neoliberal capital exacerbates competition between them. Through the lens of greening labor we discover a working class that includes not just victims of the forces of gentrification, but active resistors and savvy collaborators with those forces

Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political Economy and Marxism · Urban Planning and Governance

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