BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Sociology//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sociology.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Sociology - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220827T2141Z-1661636488.1938-EO-20012-3@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T174148Z CREATED:20220825T212707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T214940Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230131T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230131T123000 SUMMARY: “There Were Black People in the Past: Gentrification\, Displacemen t and the Making of A Food Oasis” Dr. Waverly Duck DESCRIPTION: Dr. Waverly Duck explains the formation of a “food oasis\,” a concentration of seven supermarkets within a quarter-mile radius in East Li berty\, a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh\, Pennsyl vania. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Combining stakeholder interviews\, ethnographic observatio ns and GIS mapping\, I explain the formation of a “food oasis\,” a concentr ation of seven supermarkets within a quarter-mile radius in East Liberty\, a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. I show that the creation of the food oasis has produced gentrification and d estabilized the local interaction order\, displacing local Black residents. In contrast with “food deserts\,” neighborhoods without access to food\, t he conception of a food oasis has received little scholarly attention\, des pite being a critical aspect of uneven development. Through an analysis gro unded in a conjunction between the political economy and the dynamics of th e local neighborhood Interaction Order\, I argue that the food oasis in Eas t Liberty is not only the result of gentrification\, rather than a genuine response to neighborhood needs\, but that its orientation toward the prefer ences of customers drawn primarily from more affluent surrounding communiti es is contributing to further gentrification at the expense of the original neighborhood residents whom it has displaced. Rather than giving poor Blac k residents better access to food\, the new upscale supermarkets actually e xclude them and attempts to make the middle-class outsiders who shop there feel safe actually place longtime residents in danger.
Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer and the North Ha ll Chair Endowed Professor of Sociology. He is the author of No Way Out : Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (Univers ity of Chicago Press\, 2015)\, and a finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award. His second book on unc onscious racism\, Tacit Racism\, co-authored with Anne Rawls (also with the University of Chicago Press)\, was the 2021 winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Intera ction\, 2021 Honorable Mention\, Mary Douglas Book Prize\, the American Soc iological Association Culture Section\, the 2022 Book Award winner for the North Central Sociological Association and 2022 Winner of the Oliver Cromwe ll Cox Book Award for the American Sociological Association Section on Raci al and Ethnic Minorities. He also co-authored and curated a new book with A nne Rawls and Kevin Whitehead\, titled Black Lives Matter: Ethnomethodo logical and Conversation Analytic Studies of Race and Systemic Racism in Ev eryday Interaction (Taylor and Francis\, 2020). Like his earlier work\ , his current research investigates the challenges faced by socially margin al groups. However\, his work is more directly concerned with the interacti on order of marginalized communities and how participants identify problems and what they think are viable solutions.
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