This paper employs racial capitalism as a framework for understanding the urban process.
The purpose of this paper is two-fold:(1) to center the racial character of the urban process …

Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy,
state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational …

The COVID‐19 pandemic and state violence converged in the US in 2020 highlighting the
uneven distribution of illness and death. In this article, we mobilize three bodies of literature …

In this discussion piece, eight scholars in geography, urban planning, and agri-food studies
from the United States (US) and France engage in a bi-national comparison to deepen our …

Social scientists have long debated whether racial inequality is an unfortunate consequence
of political and economic exploitation or a core feature of capitalism. In 1983, Cedric …

This paper traces the trajectory of scholarship on the settler colonial city and argues that this
literature could pay closer attention to the dynamic circulations, movements, and mobilities …

Unsanctioned guerrilla gardens, long a feature of North American cities, are frequently
planted as radical challenge to conventional urban land use. Over the past decade, a …

Scholars across the social sciences and humanities have increasingly questioned the
meaning and purpose of critique. Contributing to those conversations, some geographers …

Scholars argue that blockades of infrastructure pose an economic threat to capital
circulation. This explains how activists can gain power through strategic spatial occupations …

As municipalities across the global North highlight urban agriculture as a marker of their
'greenness', how can we best understand how the spaces and practices of urban food …