Kate Driscoll Derickson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places, based on three main points: First, the ecological concept of resilient...

TL;DR: The authors provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places, based on three main points: resilience is externally defined by state agencies and expert knowledge, a concern with the resilience of places is misplaced in terms of spatial scale, since the processes which shape resilience operate primary at the scale of capitalist social relations, and resourcefulness as an alternative approach for community groups to foster.

TL;DR: In the midst of what has been termed the urban age, two divergent approaches to understanding life in cities have emerged as mentioned in this paper, and these approaches have been engaged in three urban geography progress reports.

TL;DR: The authors suggest that research questions should be triangulated to consider not only their scholarly merit but the intellectual and political projects the findings will advance and the research questions of interest to community and social movement collaborators.

TL;DR: In August 2014, a white police officer shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, fueling the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. The following March, the US Departm...