Katherine Hankins

TL;DR: The authors highlights the different agents and enablers of gentrification and the increasing importance of place-based community activism in inner city neighborhoods that is a response to a retrenching state.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the neoliberalism and multiscalar economic perspective of the charter school movement in Atlanta, Georgia, through examination of news articles and editorials about charter schools in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1998 to 2004.

TL;DR: The authors examines the absence of the state from the discourses and practices of livable urban spaces and argues that these spaces are increasingly arenas for luxury, theater, and consumption, and that the state, while an important actor in the creation of urban spaces such as Atlantic Station, has largely been made invisible.

TL;DR: The authors argue that race was an unstated but deeply important social relation in the construction and perpetuation of white privilege in the city of Atlanta, and draw on Pulido's (2000, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90: 12−40) work on white privilege to argue that the racialized production of space is a relevant framework for understanding the processes at work in Buckhead.

TL;DR: Citizenship is a political concept and category of social analysis that is subject to a wide range of theoretical and practical interpretations as discussed by the authors, and it has been subject to various interpretations.