Author Meets Critics for Akira Drake Rodriguez's "Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing"
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 2/26/2022
Start Time: 5:20 PM
End Time: 6:40 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
LaToya Eaves
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Chairs(s):
LaToya Eaves, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Description:
This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among Black women. Urban revitalization policies target public housing residents by demolishing public housing towers and dispersing poor (Black) residents into new, deconcentrated spaces in the city via housing choice vouchers and other housing-based tools of economic and urban development.
Diverging Space for Deviants establishes alternative functions for public housing developments that would necessitate their existence in any city. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income residents-a necessity as wealth inequality in cities increases-public housing developments function as a necessary political space in the city, one of the last remaining frontiers for citizens to engage in inclusive political activity and make claims on the changing face of the state.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Introduction | LaToya Eaves |
Panelist | Deshonay Dozier |
Panelist | Ashanté Reese |
Panelist | AbdouMaliq Simone |
Panelist | Asher Ghertner |
Panelist | Celeste Winston |
Panelist | Akira Drake Rodriguez |
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Author Meets Critics for Akira Drake Rodriguez's "Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing"
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
LaToya Eaves - leaves1@utk.edu