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A Political Ecology of Neglect. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 232
This book examines the roles that racism and sexism
play towards the exclusion of black women from urban
public space in Philadelphia. Using an
interdisciplinary approach, it explores how racial
residential segregation and women’s fear of male
sexual violence combine to regulate black women’s
participation in the public sphere and deny them
access to urban parks and open space. Further, it
approaches urban ecological change as a socio-
political phenomenon that evinces and reproduces
larger social inequalities. The study takes an
exploratory approach to the topic, and attempts to
initiate a dialog on the topical and methodological
development of an urban political ecology. Concepts
of marginality, environment, hazards and resources
are conceptualized so as to become more viable in an
urban context.
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