(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city : Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America
Shokry, Galia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Anguelovski, Isabelle (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Connolly, James J. T (University of British Columbia)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	Through climate adaptation planning cities are transforming places and relations, most recently via green climate resilient infrastructure (GRI). Yet, GRI's incorporation into existing, racialized infrastructure systems of urban development, regeneration and finance has raised questions about the socio-cultural impacts and justice dimensions of recent directions in climate adaptation planning and urbanism. While critical scholars highlight the exclusion of historically marginalized residents, this paper's analysis of the impacts of GRI-driven planning for sense of belonging reveals a complex and multi-faceted experience of gentrification and displacement in the racialized, settler colonial city. Drawing on insights from civic actors about their lived experience of green and climate resilient projects in Boston, Massachusetts, we develop a novel understanding of belonging, which entails degrees of (mis)belonging. Our analysis uncovers three pathways by which climate urbanism shapes belonging into various alienated, subordinated, assimilated and emancipated forms, and reveals the kinds of political subjects and socio-cultural relations that emerge from the lived experience of climate adaptation projects. More broadly, this study sheds light on how less visible placemaking practices and alternative modes of addressing socio-climate vulnerability contribute to climate justice and injustice dynamics.
Grants:	European Commission 678034 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M European Commission 822357
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Climate resilience planning ; Belonging ; Climate coloniality ; Climate justice ; Gentrification ; Green infrastructure ; Placemaking
Published in:	Journal of urban affairs, Vol. 47, Núm. 1 (February 2023) , p. 454-141, ISSN 1467-9906

DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2160339
PMID: 39803634

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