Root Shock Twenty Years On: Displacement – Its Harms and Remedies

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Volume 50 – Number 2

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This special issue marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Mindy Fullilove’s Root Shock. The papers here attest to the impact of her work, elaborate on her concept of ‘root shock’, and contribute analyses that affirm the book’s core paradigm linking human life and wellbeing to the qualities of urban environments. While disruption and community displacement affect the whole world, the issue focuses on historic and contemporary situations in Ireland and the United States with their shared history of forced displacement being used to control land and populations.

Robert Sember

31 May 2024

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• Root Shock: A Concept at Twenty
  ROBERT SEMBER
• Root Shock at Twenty: Reflections from Roanoke
  MARY CARTER BISHOP
• Root Shock at Twenty: Reflections from Pittsburgh
  DAN HOLLAND with TERRI BALTIMORE and PHIL HALLEN
• ‘We Couldn’t Get the Big Win’: A Situation Analysis of the Stress of Gentrification at Differing Points in the Process
  MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, SARAH HOWE, MOLLY ROSE KAUFMAN, DOMINIC MOULDEN, CARLEY WETED, KATHERINE SILVA, AUBREY MURDOCK, SERITA EL AMIN, and DEREK HYRA
• The New York City Real Estate Industry and Voter Suppression
  DEBORAH WALLACE and RODRICK WALLACE
• Carceral Displacement: The Root Shock of Mass Criminalization
  LA-MEIK COOK TAYLOR, ERIC PARIS WHITFIELD, KEITH ROGERS, and ROBERT SEMBER
• A Year to Go Home: A Story of Fighting Deep Disinvestment
  SISTER ANETHA PERRY and STEPHEN DANLEY
• From Root Shock to Urban Alchemy: The (Re)making of Urban Space through the Lens of Black Older Women
  H. SHELLAE VERSEY, LAURENT REYES and JARMIN YEH
• Root Shock and Postcolonial Trauma in Ireland
  GERRY KEARNS
• Displacement in Place: Root Shock in the Pearse Street Community,
  Dublin 327
  MARY BROE
• From 'Route Shock' towards Spatial Justice: Mapping Travellers'
  Storied Places and Mazeways 337
  KAREN E. TILL and RACHEL MCARDLE
• Root Shock as Social Discipline: Marginalization and Racism in Irish
  Social, Asylum, and Refugee Policies 349
  NIAMH MCDONALD
• Resisting Root Shock in the Collapsed City: Constructing Community and the Fight
  to stay Put through Tenant Organizing in Dublin 360
  TOMMY GAVIN and CIAN O’CALLAGHAN
• Root Shock’s Missing Appendix: Using Situation Analysis for Critical Policy Studies and Beyond
  JENNIFER S. RAMIREZ, KATHERINE DILLARD GONZALEZ, TALIB HUDSON, and WHITNEY BLANCO
• Cover images: front: Relocation of a family from Pittsburgh’s Hill District in April 1951 (Photo: Richard Saunders); back: An Irish family in Moyasta, County Clare being evicted during the Land War, c.1879 (Source: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland)

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