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Contested Ecologies: Environmental Activism and Urban Space in Immigrant Paris

Contested Ecologies: Environmental Activism and Urban Space in Immigrant Paris In 2007, the City of Paris unveiled the Jardins d'Éole, a new park built in a low‐income, predominately immigrant district of the city. The park resulted from an environmentalist mobilization led by residents and is an innovative example of sustainable urban design. This article highlights the spatial contestation surrounding the mobilization to build and design the park, and its impact upon class‐based, gendered, and ethno‐racial inequalities in Paris. It suggests that a complex environmental arena is reshaping the urbanization process in contradictory ways, at times providing residents a new means to confront injustices, while at other moments reproducing socio‐spatial inequalities. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Contested Ecologies: Environmental Activism and Urban Space in Immigrant Paris

City & Society , Volume 23 (2) – Dec 1, 2011

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2011 by the American Anthropological Association
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1111/j.1548-744X.2011.01062.x
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Abstract

In 2007, the City of Paris unveiled the Jardins d'Éole, a new park built in a low‐income, predominately immigrant district of the city. The park resulted from an environmentalist mobilization led by residents and is an innovative example of sustainable urban design. This article highlights the spatial contestation surrounding the mobilization to build and design the park, and its impact upon class‐based, gendered, and ethno‐racial inequalities in Paris. It suggests that a complex environmental arena is reshaping the urbanization process in contradictory ways, at times providing residents a new means to confront injustices, while at other moments reproducing socio‐spatial inequalities.

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City & SocietyWiley

Published: Dec 1, 2011

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