Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)

The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate...

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Main Author: Jacob Wagner
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Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Geografía 2020-12-01
Series:Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
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Online Access:http://www.bage.age-geografia.es/ojs/index.php/bage/article/view/3056
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description The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate practices, including redlining, and demonstrates how these patterns continue to shape the politics of vulnerability in the region today. Three neighborhood profiles provide evidence of the ways in which local neighborhood associations are organized to respond to both social and spatial conditions of vulnerability. In contrast to the estimates of low community resilience in these neighborhoods, the author demonstrates that neighborhood empowerment is an important counterpoint to concentrated vulnerabilities.
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spelling doaj-art-a2a6a979e502450295780974d8205d8a2025-02-11T20:40:09ZengAsociación Española de GeografíaBoletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles0212-94262605-33222020-12-018710.21138/bage.3056Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)Jacob Wagner0University of Missouri-Kansas City The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate practices, including redlining, and demonstrates how these patterns continue to shape the politics of vulnerability in the region today. Three neighborhood profiles provide evidence of the ways in which local neighborhood associations are organized to respond to both social and spatial conditions of vulnerability. In contrast to the estimates of low community resilience in these neighborhoods, the author demonstrates that neighborhood empowerment is an important counterpoint to concentrated vulnerabilities. http://www.bage.age-geografia.es/ojs/index.php/bage/article/view/3056vulnerabilitycommunity resilienceadaptive capacityracialization
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Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
vulnerability
community resilience
adaptive capacity
racialization
title Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
title_full Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
title_fullStr Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
title_full_unstemmed Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
title_short Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA)
title_sort rethinking the politics of vulnerability neighborhood empowerment in kansas city missouri usa
topic vulnerability
community resilience
adaptive capacity
racialization
url http://www.bage.age-geografia.es/ojs/index.php/bage/article/view/3056
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