Examining Gentrification, Displacement, and Racial Capitalism through a Restorative Justice Framework

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3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States

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The transgender march in Washington, DC in front of the Capitol.
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National Trans Visibility march in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Ted Eytan via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/taedc/).

Part of the “Restorative Justice in the Built Environment” Interdisciplinary Dialogue SeriesOpen to all students, faculty, and staff at MAPP+D, across the University of Maryland, College Park, the Lakeland community, and the larger community.

SPONSORED BY THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING & PRESERVATION | JEDI COLLABORATIVE | TERRAPIN STRONG


Overview

What engenders (in)justice and to whom in contexts of gentrification, displacement, and racial capitalism? Can justice be restored within those contexts? If so, how and by whom? If not, how can we conceive of the built environment and the practices that produce it otherwise?


Dialogue Participants

Dr. Alvaro Huerta, Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. Associate Professor in Urban & Regional Planning and Ethnic & Women’s Studies at Cal Poly Pomona.

Dr. Margaret Marietta Ramirez, Assistant Professor, Geography, Simon Fraser University.

Dr. Laura Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar and an associate professor teaching Indigenous Planning, Community Development, and Indigenous Feminisms. University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Georgeanne Matthews, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, MAPP+D.


Moderators: URPD PhD Candidate Brittany Wong.

Respondents: Lakelander Diane Ligone, Social Worker, member Board of Directors, Lakeland Community Heritage Project, and CPL studio student.

 

 

Dialogue Series Schedule: