Valverde Movement Project: Mapping pathways to geographies of radical resilience
Topics: Environmental Justice
, Field Methods
, Field Methods
Keywords: equity, decolonial geographies, environmental justice, community geography, participatory mapping, regenerative development, resilience planning
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 09:40 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 11:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 53
Authors:
Elizabeth A. Walsh, University of Denver, Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship & Learning
Cara DiEnno, University of Denver, Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship & Learning
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Abstract
How can community geographers work across sectors and institutional boundaries with diverse community partners to cultivate the collective knowledge and power required to redress inequities and advance community-rooted health and wealth? We will explore this “big” question through our work as scholar-practitioners with the Valverde Movement Project (VMP, http://bit.ly/ValverdeMovementProject), a community-rooted, multi-sector, inter-institutional, intersectional mobility justice initiative that emerged in 2021, with the support of the National Science Foundation's CIVIC Innovation Mobility Challenge. The Valverde neighborhood is a historically redlined and marginalized neighborhood that had the highest COVID hospitalization rates in Denver, related to its history of infrastructural racism. Our diverse partners – including neighborhood leaders, city officials, university researchers, nonprofit social justice advocates, and private mobility enterprises – seek to un-design redlining and reimagine mobility investments that advance community-rooted health and wealth, rather than triggering displacement. In sharing the story of our collaborative work, we will discuss the underlying institutional support, intersectional approaches, and cartographical methods that have contributed to trusting relationships and ongoing collaboration. More specifically, we will discuss our process of co-creating asset-maps, story maps, promise maps, and kinship maps, within a framework for community geography that we call "regenerative mapping." By centering community voices and shifting our cartographic gaze from “seeing like a State” to “sensing like a sovereign body,” our diverse team of community geographers are working together cultivate relationships that co-produce knowledge and power required to map our way to geographies of radical resilience.
Valverde Movement Project: Mapping pathways to geographies of radical resilience
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