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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 147-166Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0263775819843924
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Dispossession; gentrification; Black geographies; Latinx geographies; sound; carceral
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From the foreclosure crisis of 2008, to the tech boom-provoked housing crisis currently engulfing the San Francisco Bay Area, low-income residents of Oakland, California have been displaced from their homes at an alarming rate over the past decade. In this piece I draw from Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands and engage with Black geographic thought, urban and sound studies to build a borderlands analytic. I consider how the tension, ambivalence and unrest of the borderlands provides a lens to understand the volatility of cities gripped by rapid gentrification. Using a borderlands analytic to make sense of the borders that are produced and policed in gentrifying cities, I consider how Black and Latinx life has been criminalized spatially and sonically so as to be displaced by forces of racial capitalist extraction. To do this, I look to the implementation of gang injunction zones in Oakland in 2010, and then to two moments in 2015 when the city's soundscapes were policed and criminalized. This piece centers the Black and Latinx geographies experiencing dispossession in Oakland, and considers how residents are imagining and fighting for their city's future.
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