Week 1 – What is this place? (6/8)

How do you get to know the places you live or visit? What lenses do you use? How do we engage places respectfully as visitors or newcomers?

Listen:

Johnson, J. (2016, May 11). Anacostia Unmapped: The Nacotchtank and the First Gentrifiers. WAMU.

Read:

Mathuria, S. (2019, March 28). Place & privilege: Telling stories about places that aren’t yours. Progressive City.

Overly, S., Smith-Barrow, D., O’Donnell, K., & Li, M. (2022, April 15). Washington Was an Icon of Black Political Power. Then Came Gentrification. POLITICO.

(Read only pp. 37-41, 44.) Verloo, N. (2020). Urban ethnography and participant observations: Studying the city from within. In N. Verloo & L. Bertolini (Eds.), Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban (pp. 37-55). Amsterdam University Press.