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cholars and practitioners of urban planning need to rethink the field’s futures at this important historical juncture: some might call it a moment of truth when there is little left to hide. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, contradictions, and inequalities that have always existed but are now more visible. This also includes the global vaccine apartheid that is ongoing as I write these words. Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
- Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
- Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
- They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining.
- I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
- Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
- Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
- They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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eographers of neoliberalism have long inquired into the radical potential and the grave limitations of what INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2017) has called the “nonprofit industrial complex” and Jennifer Wolch (1990) has called the “shadow state.” Likewise, geographers of sexuality have long critically evaluated the neoliberal turn in gender and sexual politics (e.g. Puar 2006, Oswin 2008, Brown 2012). But few scholars have situated that neoliberal turn within the form of the nonprofit-industrial complex in as sustained and persuasive a manner as Myrl Beam in Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics. Grounded in Beam’s experiences of frontline work and careful inquiry into the history and political economy of LGBTQ nonprofits in Chicago and Minneapolis, this book offers a persuasive indictment of the nonprofit form, as well as a deeply felt mediation on how savvy grassroots organizers struggle with its constraints.
Gay, Inc. should command the attention of geographers of neoliberalism, the third sector, health, gender, sexuality, class, and race in and well beyond the United States. This forum is based on a conversation that I had the pleasure of organizing at the 2019 Association of American Geographers Annual meeting in Washington, DC. It brings together the perspectives of geographers of labor, education, and LGBTQ community formation on this important project, and includes a response from the author. In addition to all the contributors to this forum, I would like to thank the Queer and Trans Geographies Specialty Group, the Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group, and the Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Group for cosponsoring the session.
References
Brown G (2012)Homonormativity: A Metropolitan Concept that Denigrates ‘Ordinary’ Gay Lives. Journalof Homosexuality 59(7): 1065-1072.
INCITE!Women of Color Against Violence. 2017. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded:Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. 2nd Ed. Durham: DukeUniversity Press.
Oswin N (2008)Critical Geographies and the Uses of Sexuality: Desconstructing Queer Space. Progressin Human Geography 32(1): 89-103.
Puar JK (2006)Mapping U.S. Homonormativities. Gender, Place & Culture 13(1): 67-88.
Wolch J (1990)The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition. NewYork: Foundation Center.
David K.Seitz is Assistant Professor of Cultural Geography at Harvey Mudd College.
