ANTH 110I Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Condition, Eurocentrism
Document Summary
Inequality and poverty are experienced in spaces and geographies. To understand the struggles of social justices might also involve creating geographies that are more inclusive and less unequal. People are living in cities more than ever. Cities are where we are starting to see more interesting forms of mobilization and collective action. Housing justice in unequal cities - way of recognizing that while we live in an era of prosperity, we also live in an era of obscene inequality that also manifests in starkly in space. Ex: la - one hand, super expensive houses in bel air and the other hand, increase in criminalization and homelessness because housing is going up. Hurts a lot of families particularly women and children who rely on living in their cars and la has made that illegal. Public policy is enabled which becomes a great concern. Poor people"s movements are carved out from ideas and actual practices of social justice.
