Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking...
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Author: Akira Drake Rodriguez
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Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing by Rodriguez, Akira Drake

Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing

BD$83.36

Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing

BD$83.36
Author: Akira Drake Rodriguez
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among Black women. Urban revitalization policies target public housing residents by demolishing public housing towers and dispersing poor (Black) residents into new, deconcentrated spaces in the city via housing choice vouchers and other housing-based tools of economic and urban development.

Diverging Space for Deviants establishes alternative functions for public housing developments that would necessitate their existence in any city. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income residents--a necessity as wealth inequality in cities increases--public housing developments function as a necessary political space in the city, one of the last remaining frontiers for citizens to engage in inclusive political activity and make claims on the changing face of the state.

Author: Akira Drake Rodriguez
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 05/15/2021
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780820359526

About the Author
AKIRA DRAKE RODRIGUEZ is a joint lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design and Social of Social Policy and Practice. She received her PhD in planning and public policy from Rutgers University. She was born in Alexandria, VA, and grew up in Louisville, KY. She lives with her husband and son in Philadelphia, PA.

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