Journal Issues by Giuseppina Forte
Radical Housing Journal, 2022
At the feet of the Serra da Cantareira forest in São Paulo, land grabbers illicitly seize and sel... more At the feet of the Serra da Cantareira forest in São Paulo, land grabbers illicitly seize and sell land to houseless people. In 2019, I conducted fieldwork in a newly established squatter camp along the Tremembé River, inhabited mainly by Black and Brown women who had migrated from rural Brazil. Since they are considered illegal occupants by the authorities and live in an area at risk of flooding, they may soon be evicted without compensation. The criminalization of these houseless people by the government overlaps with the stigma attached to them by the residents of nearby settlements. They associate the squatters with alleged disruptive practices against nature (deforestation, pollution, and garbage accumulation), theft of electricity, and appropriation of federal subsidies. Stemming from hygienist discourses, racialized and gendered ideologies shape this environmental imagination.
Social Sciences, 2022
Climate urbanism is an emerging field of action that aims to adapt to or mitigate the impacts of ... more Climate urbanism is an emerging field of action that aims to adapt to or mitigate the impacts of climate change on cities. These interventions are often framed by narratives of climate collapse, implying that there is not enough time to engage citizens in participatory planning processes. Some scholars have argued that this may also enable the realization of urban interventions that would otherwise be difficult to implement under ordinary circumstances. At the same time, research has demonstrated that mitigation and adaptation policies and projects may result in the displacement of vulnerable populations. To avoid this scenario, city governments must ensure vulnerability assessments, transparency, and accountability to all affected communities throughout the design process, and examination of projects proposed by residents and developed by the city authorities. Based on interviews, fieldwork observation, and secondary analysis of open-source documents, this article examines the comp...
by losquaderno_ journal, Cristina Mattiucci, Alessandro Coppola, Fuad Musallam, Serena Olcuire, Lucia Baima, Plácido Muñoz Morán, Miriam Tedeschi, Andrea Pavoni, Valeria Raimondi, Gaia Caramellino, and Giuseppina Forte
Edited Book by Giuseppina Forte
Embodying Peripheries , 2022
cover Colonia popular in Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico. Photo by Ralf Korbmacher global urban human... more cover Colonia popular in Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico. Photo by Ralf Korbmacher global urban humanity-the "embodiment" of global urban humanity-the "embodiment" of embodying peripheries embodying peripheries "horše t • uuxi! Native American Student Development recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band. We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land, since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand, but also, we recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today. This acknowledgement was co-created with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Native American Student Development and is a living document." 1 Conventionally deemed "peripheral," not central, the people of the "peripheries" are yet the protagonists of alternative modernities, as confirmed by our labor, protest, survival, and bodily practices that take place on the margins of urban centers. Liminality of the edges affords transformation of both people and the city proper, and sensorimotor embodiment is the process and praxis for part of this change. Embodying Peripheries engages the ways in which subjectivities differ across urban space, in which our race(s), class(es), abilities, roles, and gender(s)/sexualities are not accidental features of the cosmopolites, but historically effected and primary components of inequity. Inequity is mirrored within city demographics and struggles, such as in Northern California's bay area, but also within the larger purview of the urban distribution of the planet, as current global inequalities iterate the same inequalities
Book Chapters by Giuseppina Forte
Embodying Peripheries
Peripheries are processes and places in which conditions and actors constantly shift. The conting... more Peripheries are processes and places in which conditions and actors constantly shift. The contingent forms of peripheries in this book are assembled around embodied identities and are rooted in specific genealogies: peripheries as urban fringes, periphery countries in the modern world-system theory, and peripheral urbanization. Through these genealogies, the heterogeneous forms of peripheries acquire layered meanings that decenter urban theory. Since no form can exist outside historical relations of power, it is critical to apply methodological approaches that can address the political agency emerging from embodied identities.
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Journal Issues by Giuseppina Forte
Edited Book by Giuseppina Forte
Book Chapters by Giuseppina Forte