Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate...
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Asociación Española de Geografía
2020-12-01
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The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate practices, including redlining, and demonstrates how these patterns continue to shape the politics of vulnerability in the region today. Three neighborhood profiles provide evidence of the ways in which local neighborhood associations are organized to respond to both social and spatial conditions of vulnerability. In contrast to the estimates of low community resilience in these neighborhoods, the author demonstrates that neighborhood empowerment is an important counterpoint to concentrated vulnerabilities.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d98a1d0e398048c7a4413b3650e838612024-01-22T18:03:57ZengAsociación Española de GeografíaBoletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles0212-94262605-33222020-12-0187Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)Jacob Wagner0University of Missouri-Kansas City The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate practices, including redlining, and demonstrates how these patterns continue to shape the politics of vulnerability in the region today. Three neighborhood profiles provide evidence of the ways in which local neighborhood associations are organized to respond to both social and spatial conditions of vulnerability. In contrast to the estimates of low community resilience in these neighborhoods, the author demonstrates that neighborhood empowerment is an important counterpoint to concentrated vulnerabilities. https://bage.age-geografia.es/ojs/index.php/bage/article/view/3056vulnerabilitycommunity resilienceadaptive capacityracialization |
| spellingShingle | Jacob Wagner Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles vulnerability community resilience adaptive capacity racialization |
| title | Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) |
| title_full | Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) |
| title_short | Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) |
| title_sort | rethinking the politics of vulnerability neighborhood empowerment in kansas city missouri usa |
| topic | vulnerability community resilience adaptive capacity racialization |
| url | https://bage.age-geografia.es/ojs/index.php/bage/article/view/3056 |
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