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A People's Atlas of Detroit (Great Lakes Books) Paperback – February 19, 2020
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In recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. A People’s Atlas of Detroit, edited by Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann comes from a community-based participatory project called Uniting Detroiters that sought to use collective research to strengthen the organizing infrastructure of the city’s long-vibrant grassroots sector and reassert residents’ roles as active participants in the development process. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, this book aims to both chart and help build movements for social justice in the city.
A People’s Atlas of Detroit is organized into six main chapters. Chapter 1 excavates three centuries of Detroit’s past to unearth the histories of racial citizenship that have shaped the city. Chapter 2 adopts a ground-level view of Detroit’s contemporary landscapes and highlights the meanings that land holds for residents. Chapter 3 highlights urban farming as one of the key ways that Detroiters have been repurposing vacant land over the last several decades. Chapter 4 analyzes struggles over governance and finances between the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit and other majority African American cities. Chapter 5 moves beyond the gentrification debate—a dominant paradigm since the 1980s—which is neither the only nor the most important factor behind displacement. Chapter 6 focuses on residents’ plans and mobilizations to reclaim and rethink public services in the city, including water, transit, and schools. As a whole, the book seeks to highlight and explain current visions for radical change—both in Detroit and cities around the world.
A People’s Atlas of Detroit weaves together maps, poetry, interviews, photographs, essays, and stories by over fifty residents, activists, and community leaders who offer alternative perspectives on the city’s past, present, and future. This volume will reinforce conversations being had by scholars of many disciplines and will inspire communities to continue to raise their voices in the name of representation and change.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWayne State University Press
- Publication dateFebruary 19, 2020
- Dimensions10 x 0.8 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100814342973
- ISBN-13978-0814342978
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"The Atlas' ability to traverse these boundaries of what academia will legitimize by collaborating with activists to produce a well-researched catalogue of historic and contemporary narratives from activists is an important addition to scholarship in Detroit and the field of planning. The authors provide an instructive example of how the richness of community narratives can be assembled to showcase their significance across the landscape of Detroit and in ways that are of interest to many audiences."―Lisa Berglund, Progressive City
"Valuable to people in other places engaged in similar struggles over land, agriculture, infrastructure and governance. This book provides a chart for those interested in engaging in such a project. We need A People's Atlas of every city, as an organizing tool and a document of struggles everywhere."―Rich Heyman, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
"The information contained in this book is vital in understanding the social, political, racial, and economic underpinnings that have formed the Detroit we see today. A failure to understand the phenomena laid out in A People's Atlas of Detroit leaves one with the flawed perspective of Detroit is a city that is deviant, dysfunctional, and dangerous. And that perspective must be smashed."―Jason Jordan, Official Historian of the City of Detroit
"Succeeds in re-presenting Detroit as a vital and living city with strong activist histories of ordinary people surviving and battling systemic racial injustices, inequalities and dispossession. It also provides an inspiring example of how other cities might create their own distinctive Atlases through similar methods, bringing to light peoples' histories of struggle against injustice and exploitation and demonstrating new ways of creating vital and democratic urban centers through an ethics of care, where we practice new ways of being in the world and with each other."―LivingMaps Network
"They have produced an interesting book, with an impressive pedigree and purpose that extends well beyond the primarily academic focus of most atlases. So well beyond, in fact, that many readers will take issue with calling it an atlas (a term typically defined as a book of maps or charts), as very few of its pages are devoted to maps, and many of those are used solely to designate the locations of those who contributed content to specific chapters."―Russell S. Kirby, Cartographic Perspectives
"A book which radical cartographers, environmentalists and community activists alike will want on their shelves. It is beautifully produced with full color photographs and maps."―LivingMaps Network
"Detroit organizing has always been among the smartest, sharpest, and innovative work throughout people's history. This is a project that provides more evidence of this fact―a thoughtful, important resource developed by the people in the very best tradition of community-led and -centered research and analysis. A People's Atlas of Detroit proves once again that if we seek to understand a place, we must break with the extractive practice of traditional 'research' and listen to the people who make it what it is."―Makani Themba, author and chief strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies
"A People's Atlas of Detroit is a remarkable achievement. Not only is Detroit one of the most important cities to understand, but this book includes a multiplicity of forms of knowledge, which, when woven together, tell a powerful story. A People's Atlas of Detroit offers a new model and standard for critical urban geography."―Laura Pulido, University of Oregon, Co-Author of a People's Guide to Los Angeles
"This book not only works to understand the many ways Detroit has come to help establish the urban fabric of the United States, but does so through a deeply embodied and popular mode of analysis that feels generative well beyond the specifics of the city itself."―Nik Heynen, Editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Co-Director of the Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land and Agriculture
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Book Description
Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit's redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.
About the Author
Andrew Newman is an associate professor of anthropology at Wayne State University.
Sara Safransky is a human geographer and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University.
Tim Stallmann is a cartographer and a worker-owner at Research Action Design.
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- Publisher : Wayne State University Press; Illustrated edition (February 19, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0814342973
- ISBN-13 : 978-0814342978
- Item Weight : 2.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 10 x 0.8 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #493,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #58 in Local U.S. Politics
- #151 in Political Advocacy Books
- #411 in Human Rights (Books)
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