Debates around urban land—who owns it, who can access it, who decides, and on what
basis—are intensifying in the United States. Fifty years after the end of legally sanctioned …

The racial and cultural politics of land and property are central to urban struggle, but have
received relatively little attention in geography. This paper analyzes land struggles in Detroit …

Myriad questions related to social justice have shaped urban geographic scholarship,
among which two things remain clear: geographers maintain fidelity to the idea that the …

In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in
calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system …

As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of planning and policy efforts, Chicago
planners and private institutions attribute it to “disinvestment” and seek to remove barriers to …

This article uses the case of anti-eviction politics to examine the urban land question.
Following the ideas and practices of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign and its global …

In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a
historic legal victory against the city's Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent …

Two years into the COVID 19 pandemic, lockdowns and closures have left millions of the
global majority out of work, hungry, facing eviction, and desperately navigating hollowed out …

This paper contributes to emerging conversations at the intersection of critical geographies
of property and race by centering political grammars of reckoning and redress. Grammar is …

In this paper I rethink land grabbing in Latin America by decentering the rhetoric of novelty
and the tendency to focus on large‐scale land transactions. To do this, I attend to the …