Isabelle Anguelovski
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262026925
- eISBN:
- 9780262322188
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026925.003.0005
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
In Dudley, Casc Antic, and CayoHueso, people feel strongly attached to the places where they live and work, to their tangible assets, and to the relationships that they have built there. These strong ...
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In Dudley, Casc Antic, and CayoHueso, people feel strongly attached to the places where they live and work, to their tangible assets, and to the relationships that they have built there. These strong attachments have motivated them to engage in environmental revitalization initiatives. Even so, residents have suffered from environmental trauma and loss, so when activists repair community spaces, build new parks and playgrounds, and develop urban farms and community gardens, they do so to address residents’ grief and fear of erasure from a neighborhood that has been seen as a devastated war zone. Over time, environmental projects help to heal the community, achieve environmental recovery, and create a sense of rootedness and home. They create safe havens for individuals and families, offer a soothing refuge away from the pressures of the city relations. As they remake a place for residents, activists also work to create a self-sustained urban village, celebrate the community, rebuild a local collective identity, enhance ties between residents, and encourage them to continue to participate in the reconstruction and protection of their community. Social aspects of urban sustainability include here focusing on place remaking, addressing trauma and fear of erasure, and rebuilding a stronger local identity.Less
In Dudley, Casc Antic, and CayoHueso, people feel strongly attached to the places where they live and work, to their tangible assets, and to the relationships that they have built there. These strong attachments have motivated them to engage in environmental revitalization initiatives. Even so, residents have suffered from environmental trauma and loss, so when activists repair community spaces, build new parks and playgrounds, and develop urban farms and community gardens, they do so to address residents’ grief and fear of erasure from a neighborhood that has been seen as a devastated war zone. Over time, environmental projects help to heal the community, achieve environmental recovery, and create a sense of rootedness and home. They create safe havens for individuals and families, offer a soothing refuge away from the pressures of the city relations. As they remake a place for residents, activists also work to create a self-sustained urban village, celebrate the community, rebuild a local collective identity, enhance ties between residents, and encourage them to continue to participate in the reconstruction and protection of their community. Social aspects of urban sustainability include here focusing on place remaking, addressing trauma and fear of erasure, and rebuilding a stronger local identity.
Isabelle Anguelovski
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262026925
- eISBN:
- 9780262322188
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026925.001.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This book is an international comparative study of three critical and emblematic minority and low-income neighborhoods whose residents have organized to holistically improve local environmental ...
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This book is an international comparative study of three critical and emblematic minority and low-income neighborhoods whose residents have organized to holistically improve local environmental quality and livability—Casc Antic (Barcelona), Dudley (Boston), CayoHueso (Havana). It examines the role played by environmental revitalization (land clean up, parks, community gardens and farms, healthy housing, community centers, improved waste management) in addressing exclusion, reconstructing community, overcoming loss, trauma, and fear of erasure, and recreating a sense of place for vulnerable residents. In those three neighborhoods, active residents, local leaders, community organizations, environmental NGOs, and other supporters have taken action in a several complementary domains that are connected to each other in order to holistically rebuild a broken community. Environmental initiatives are holistic as activists do not envision their revitalization work in compartments. The environmental work of activists also encompasses aspects of safety that go beyond individual protection against physical, social, or financial damage and harm to include soothing, nurturing, and resilience through the construction of safe havens. This research develops a new framework for understanding urban environmental justice and for planning just and resilient cities and shows that both physical and psychological dimensions of environmental health must be taken into consideration by urban decision-makers and planners to rebuild historically marginalized and degraded communities.Less
This book is an international comparative study of three critical and emblematic minority and low-income neighborhoods whose residents have organized to holistically improve local environmental quality and livability—Casc Antic (Barcelona), Dudley (Boston), CayoHueso (Havana). It examines the role played by environmental revitalization (land clean up, parks, community gardens and farms, healthy housing, community centers, improved waste management) in addressing exclusion, reconstructing community, overcoming loss, trauma, and fear of erasure, and recreating a sense of place for vulnerable residents. In those three neighborhoods, active residents, local leaders, community organizations, environmental NGOs, and other supporters have taken action in a several complementary domains that are connected to each other in order to holistically rebuild a broken community. Environmental initiatives are holistic as activists do not envision their revitalization work in compartments. The environmental work of activists also encompasses aspects of safety that go beyond individual protection against physical, social, or financial damage and harm to include soothing, nurturing, and resilience through the construction of safe havens. This research develops a new framework for understanding urban environmental justice and for planning just and resilient cities and shows that both physical and psychological dimensions of environmental health must be taken into consideration by urban decision-makers and planners to rebuild historically marginalized and degraded communities.
Katy Long
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199673315
- eISBN:
- 9780191756139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673315.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The third chapter detailing the history of repatriation argues that during the 1990s – declared the “decade of repatriation” – the international community increasingly fixated on securing refugees’ ...
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The third chapter detailing the history of repatriation argues that during the 1990s – declared the “decade of repatriation” – the international community increasingly fixated on securing refugees’ physical return while ignoring the basic liberal principles such as “voluntariness” and “safety”. The chapter first looks at how the parallel development of “safe havens” and a growing focus on internal or “preventative” protection mechanisms reinforced return-centred policies in the early 1990s, as did the idea of a “right to remain”. It examines the failures of these policies in Northern Iraq and Bosnia, especially attempts to reverse ethnic cleansing through minority returns. The chapter then looks at how increasing pressure to end refugee crises through return led to a number of “repatriations” – including the Rohingyan return to Burma in 1994 and Rwandan return to Tanzania in 1997 – in which UNHCR-sanctioned repatriations were forcible, unsafe and tantamount to refoulement.Less
The third chapter detailing the history of repatriation argues that during the 1990s – declared the “decade of repatriation” – the international community increasingly fixated on securing refugees’ physical return while ignoring the basic liberal principles such as “voluntariness” and “safety”. The chapter first looks at how the parallel development of “safe havens” and a growing focus on internal or “preventative” protection mechanisms reinforced return-centred policies in the early 1990s, as did the idea of a “right to remain”. It examines the failures of these policies in Northern Iraq and Bosnia, especially attempts to reverse ethnic cleansing through minority returns. The chapter then looks at how increasing pressure to end refugee crises through return led to a number of “repatriations” – including the Rohingyan return to Burma in 1994 and Rwandan return to Tanzania in 1997 – in which UNHCR-sanctioned repatriations were forcible, unsafe and tantamount to refoulement.
Belgin San-Akca
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190250881
- eISBN:
- 9780190250911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190250881.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
This chapter starts with the theory that the rise of nonstate armed groups (NAGs) is not an issue solely tied to the absence of state or the rise of ungoverned territories. In contrast, many rebel ...
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This chapter starts with the theory that the rise of nonstate armed groups (NAGs) is not an issue solely tied to the absence of state or the rise of ungoverned territories. In contrast, many rebel groups manage to sustain their operations against target states because of support they receive from other states. There are several types of state support, including safe havens, funds, troops, weapons, and logistics aid. Rebel groups are characterized as purposive decision makers with specific objectives, which lead them to prioritize between autonomy in operations and resource acquisition. Depending on their priorities, rebel groups, then, either seek intentional state supporters and/or de facto state supporters. Subsequently, this chapter lays the groundwork for development of the state-rebel selection theory, which addresses state-rebel interactions through the lens of interstate relations.Less
This chapter starts with the theory that the rise of nonstate armed groups (NAGs) is not an issue solely tied to the absence of state or the rise of ungoverned territories. In contrast, many rebel groups manage to sustain their operations against target states because of support they receive from other states. There are several types of state support, including safe havens, funds, troops, weapons, and logistics aid. Rebel groups are characterized as purposive decision makers with specific objectives, which lead them to prioritize between autonomy in operations and resource acquisition. Depending on their priorities, rebel groups, then, either seek intentional state supporters and/or de facto state supporters. Subsequently, this chapter lays the groundwork for development of the state-rebel selection theory, which addresses state-rebel interactions through the lens of interstate relations.
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190939298
- eISBN:
- 9780190943257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190939298.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter provides a novel geographic and demographic approach to analyzing the survival of Jews in France.
Many began fleeing the Germans as of summer-fall 1940 to seek shelter in the so-called ...
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This chapter provides a novel geographic and demographic approach to analyzing the survival of Jews in France.
Many began fleeing the Germans as of summer-fall 1940 to seek shelter in the so-called Free Zone. Others would migrate to escape Nazi and Vichy repression. Many of them took refuge in the countryside, often in very remote rural areas, which contributed to their survival. A method is used to assess this dispersal in numerical and geographical terms, even though some remained at home or did not go far.Less
This chapter provides a novel geographic and demographic approach to analyzing the survival of Jews in France.
Many began fleeing the Germans as of summer-fall 1940 to seek shelter in the so-called Free Zone. Others would migrate to escape Nazi and Vichy repression. Many of them took refuge in the countryside, often in very remote rural areas, which contributed to their survival. A method is used to assess this dispersal in numerical and geographical terms, even though some remained at home or did not go far.
