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作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.42,Issue4,P.417-438

语言

英文

关键字

Rights,right to the city,homelessness,encampments,Portland,Oregon

作者单位

Department of Geography, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

摘要

Recent critical scholarship regarding the right to the city suggests that the concept inadequately addresses the function of rights within urban socio-legal processes. This paper draws from various rights literatures to bring rights to the forefront of urban analyses. Empirically, the paper details the political struggles of Right 2 Dream Too (R2DT), a self-governed houseless encampment in Portland, Oregon, drawing from interviews with encampment residents and government officials as well as from analysis of media, government, and legal documents. The paper articulates how R2DT organized around a foundational set of moral claims for rights to a place of its own. While the paper admonishes that rights are ever contingent, and thus always unsettled, R2DT’s struggle over rights more broadly reflects how marginalized groups struggling over a right to exist within contemporary cities may be realized.KEYWORDS: Rightsright to the cityhomelessnessencampmentsPortlandOregonAcknowledgmentsI would like to thank the reviewers for very thorough comments which helped me to clarify my arguments. I also want to thank all interview participants who gave their time and insights to my research, particularly to all the resident and board members of Right 2 Dream Too who were always willing to give me their time. I would also like to thank those who read drafts of this paper: Rachelle Berry read one of the first versions, motivating me to go further; on a later draft, Kafui Attoh offered wonderful insights and asked provocative if not impossible-to-answer questions; and, finally, to Don Mitchell, who offered his usual critical attention on more than one draft.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.