"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2280684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa Checker (Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-229 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2011.01063.x |
| OpenAlex | W2124472031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 335 |
| References cited | 27 |
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," which builds on the material and discursive successes of the environmental justice movement and appropriates them to serve high-end development. While it appears as politically-neutral, consensus-based planning that is both ecologically and socially sensitive, in practice, environmental gentrification subordinates equity to profit-minded development. I propose that this process offers a new way of exploring the paradoxes and conundrums facing contemporary urban residents as they fight to challenge the vast economic and ecological disparities that increasingly divide today's cities
Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Ethnography · Gentrification · Geography · Intergenerational equity · Political science · Politics · Redevelopment · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Urban planning · Urban politics · Anthropology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 335 |
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| Citations per year | 23,93 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 329 |