Akira Drake Rodriguez discusses new book Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing at Cornell AAP
In 1936, the City of Atlanta was the first U.S. city to open federally-financed and locally-administered public housing developments to low-income families in need of safe and sanitary housing (Techwood Homes). For the city's Black residents, and later, other marginalized groups, these developments provided political opportunity to assemble, mobilize, and make claims on the State in ways that were otherwise inaccessible. Over time, tenant associations served as conduits for working-class political interests centered in spatial justice – the very politics of planning that were used to segregate and marginalize developments and residents served as an organizing logic around spatial justice issues. However, in 2013, demolition began on one of the city's last public housing developments for low-income families, nearly two decades after Techwood Homes was demolished for the 1996 Olympics. This talk examines the historical role of public housing in working-class politics and how the loss of tenant associations in the city has deepened contemporary inequities.
Organized by: Cornell AAP (Architecture Art Planning)
Media: https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/akira-drake-rodriguez-diverging-space-deviants-politics-atlantas-public-housing
Jennifer Hirsch’s Research Cited in USA Today Article
The article, “Why it’s still so hard not to drink,” discusses alcohol, power dynamics, and privilege.
Former co-director for the CSSD Working Group Reframing Gendered Violence, Jennifer Hirsch, and sociologist Shamus Khan's research was cited in a USA Today article on alcohol consumption. The piece highlighted Professors Hirsch and Khan's findings on how college campus drinking culture is shaped by power dynamics and privilege.
The USA Today article can be found here.
To learn more about Jennifer Hirsch, you can visit her page on the CSSD website here.
For more on her work with the CSSD Working Group, Reframing Gendered Violence, read here.
Mae Ngai Launches “Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas”
CSSD Executive Committee member celebrated the launch of her and her colleague’s interactive digital atlas of NYC.
CSSD Executive Committee Member Mae Ngai and collaborator Rebecca Kobrin inaugurated their project on October 27, 2021. The "Mapping Historical New York" project offers interactive visualizations of census data at the household level on maps of New York City from 1850 to 1910. The project received funding from the Gardiner Foundation. Mae collaborated with historian Rebecca Kobrin
A recording of the launch can be found here.
More information about Mae Ngai and her work can be found on her CSSD page, here.
Zip Code Memory Project Gathering for Covid
CSSD Social Engagement Project organizes an event for community mourning and healing that will take place on December 5th, 2021.
Join the participants of the CSSD Social Engagement Project, The Zip Code Memory Project, on December 5 on the steps of the Cathedral of St John the Divine for our first public gathering to acknowledge, mourn, and pay tribute to the losses of COVID 19.
Combining the physical and the digital, this community gathering will include candles, music, postcards and a healing community ritual. This event will center postcards participants may have sent, brought, or made at the event that responds to the questions:
What have we lost and learned from Covid?
How can we heal and grow together?
More information about this event can be found on the official Zip Code Memory project page here.
For more information on the work of The Zip Code Memory Project, you can visit the CSSD page here.