12 research outputs found
Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of Southwestern cities
Double Exposure in the Sunbelt: The Sociospatial Distribution of Vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona
Zoning and Land Use: A Tale of Incompatibility and Environmental Injustice in Early Phoenix
Estimating the Effect of Protected Lands on the Development and Conservation of Their Surroundings
Compassionate revanchism: The blurry geography of homelessness in the USA
In this article we move beyond the binary division between care and punishment in urban studies of homelessness to examine how caring institutions are themselves crucial to the punitive and exclusionary project of capitalist urbanisation. Based on ethnographic and archival analysis of homelessness management in Fresno, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, we show how punitive measures and institutions of care often emerge simultaneously and operate in tandem as part of a broader scheme for urban revitalisation. Further, we show how caring institutions themselves often perform the function of controlling homeless people’s movements in the city, while punitive institutions adopt more caring tactics. Thus, we argue for a focus on how compassion and criminalisation are regularly blurred