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Urban Agriculture in NYC: Social Justice, Disparities and Gentrification
The Graduate Center, CUNY. Room 6304.01 365 fifth street, New YorkAs part of her fieldwork in community gardens in East Harlem threatened by the affordable housing plan, PSRG member, Chantal Gailloux, Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), invites 4 speakers to discuss NYC community gardens' political practices, propriety relations, and contribution to gentrification and racial disparities. Benjamin Shepard will present community gardens as sources for sustainable urbanism […]
Deep Word Play: Signs of Distinction and Exclusion in Gentrifying Brooklyn
The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room C201 365 5th Av., New yorkDeep Word Play: Signs of Distinction and Exclusion in Gentrifying Brooklyn March 3, 2017. 12:00pm – 2:00pm Room C201 – The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Ave., New York) Public signs are profoundly political spaces. As part of our broader research on urban change and redevelopment in Brooklyn, this paper explores shop signs as public texts that both shape and […]
Gérôme Truc – From New York to Paris: Public Space and Social Reactions to Terror Attacks
The Graduate Center, CUNY. Room 6304.01 365 fifth street, New YorkJoin us in welcoming Gérôme Truc, (France, Center for the Study of Social Movements at EHESS, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, CNRS) for his talk "From NY to Paris: Public Space and Social Reactions to Terrorist attacks". The event will be from 11:00am to 1:00pm, in room 6304.01 of the Graduate Center, CUNY. Gérôme Truc studies […]
