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Methodologies for Housing Justice Resource Guide
This Resource Guide is the outcome of a Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice convened by the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin as part of the Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1758774). Held in Los Angeles in August 2019, the Summer Institute brought together participants from cities around the world. As is the case with the overall scope and purpose of the Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network, it created a shared terrain of scholarship for movement-based and university-based scholars. Dissatisfied with the canonical methods that are in use in housing studies and guided by housing justice movements that are active research communities, the Summer Institute was premised on the assertion that methodology is political. Methodology is rooted in arguments about the world and involves relations of power and knowledge. The method itself – be it countermapping or people’s diaries – does not ensure an ethics of solidarity and a purpose of justice. Such goals require methodologies for liberation. Thus, as is evident in this Resource Guide, our endeavor foregrounds innovative methods that are being used by researchers across academia and activism and explicitly situates such methods in an orientation towards housing justice
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Urban Universities on Contested Terrain: Racial Academic Capitalism, Gentrification, and the Politics of Expansion
The ascendance of the global knowledge economy has led many research universities to heighten their focus on attracting stellar applicants, luring super-star faculty, and attaining world-class status, leaving many unanswered questions about how university efforts are affecting local communities. Universities are expanding their geographic footprint to create new research facilities and accommodate increasing enrollment. These expansion efforts can damage their public reputations, as adjacent communities feel disenfranchised and immobilized by a powerful institution. This dissertation analyzes the East Baltimore redevelopment project (EBDI) neighboring Johns Hopkins Medical campus to illuminate how academic capitalism shapes university-community relations in the new economy. I argue universities driven by an academic capitalist impetus to expand and gentrify local communities—uprooting residents from their homes for the sake of improved facilities to accommodate students, faculty, and donors.Critical race counterstories give voice to predominantly Black university-adjacent neighborhood residents, who are literally at the margins of Hopkins and the larger system of White Supremacy. Qualitative interviews and document analysis confirmed that Middle East neighborhood residents did not see themselves reflected in the lifestyle amenities prioritized by the redevelopment plan. Residents expressed a lack of accountability from the “corporate” university and its complicity with the municipal government to disenfranchise undesirable communities (read: Communities of Color). Geo-statistical analyses of economic indicators from the US Census were used to test for gentrification. A spatio-temporal difference-in-differences approach explored how median income, educational attainment rates, and racial demographics were affected by expansion for census tracts within one-mile of the university, compared to similar census tracts across Baltimore. Spatial Regression models confirmed that post-expansion, areas in the EBDI footprint experienced changes in median income, rent, and percent White population beyond the rate of change elsewhere in Baltimore. University-driven redevelopment in East Baltimore clearly contributed to gentrification.This study highlights tensions to be reconciled as White, elite, urban universities encroach upon poor communities of color, e.g., global ambition and local impact, marketization and the public good, and questions of race and class. Rather than a simple redevelopment process in an economically distressed community, the EBDI project illuminated complex legacies of racial segregation, exploitation by Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, forced decay through land-banking and vacancies, and historical governmental failures to redevelop the Middle East neighborhood. These combined processes of racial subordination inform and are perpetuated by EBDI expansion
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Special Issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies: Interrogating Knowledge Production, Social Structures and Equitable Access
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Special Issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies: Interrogating Knowledge Production, Social Structures and Equitable Access
Deep time spatio‐temporal data analysis using pyGPlates with PlateTectonicTools and GPlately
Abstract PyGPlates is an open‐source Python library to visualize and edit plate tectonic reconstructions created using GPlates. The Python API affords a greater level of flexibility than GPlates to interrogate plate reconstructions and integrate with other Python workflows. GPlately was created to accelerate spatio‐temporal data analysis leveraging pyGPlates and PlateTectonicTools within a simplified Python interface. This object‐oriented package enables the reconstruction of data through deep geologic time (points, lines, polygons and rasters), the interrogation of plate kinematic information (plate velocities, rates of subduction and seafloor spreading), the rapid comparison between multiple plate motion models, and the plotting of reconstructed output data on maps. All tools are designed to be parallel‐safe to accelerate spatio‐temporal analysis over multiple CPU processors
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Metodologías para la justicia de la vivienda: Guia de recursos
Esta Guía de Recursos es el resultado de un Instituto de Verano sobre Metodologías para la Justicia en la Vivienda convocado por el Instituto sobre Desigualdad y Democracia de UCLA Luskin como parte de la Red de Justicia en la Vivienda en Ciudades Desiguales, que es apoyada por la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias (BCS 1758774). Celebrado en Los Ángeles en agosto de 2019, el Instituto de Verano reunió a participantes de ciudades de todo el mundo. Al igual que el alcance y el propósito general de la Red de Justicia en las Ciudades Desiguales, creó un terreno compartido de para estudiosos del movimiento y académicos de universidades. Con una insatisfacción a los métodos canónicos que se utilizan en los estudios sobre la vivienda y guiado por los movimientos de justicia de la vivienda que son comunidades de investigación activa, el Instituto de verano se basó en la afirmación de que la metodología es política. La metodología se basa en argumentos sobre el mundo e implica relaciones de poder y conocimiento. El método por sí mismo -ya sea el contra ataque al mapeo o los diarios de la genteno asegura una ética de solidaridad y un propósito de justicia. Tales objetivos requieren metodologías para la liberación. Por lo tanto, como es evidente en esta Guía de Recursos, nuestro esfuerzo pone en primer plano los métodos innovadores que están siendo utilizados por los investigadores en todo el mundo académico y el activismo y sitúa explícitamente tales métodos en una orientación hacia la vivienda la justicia