DOJ- AHEAD invites all to a presentation, discussion, and Q&A on “Gentrification,
Justice, and Cities” by Professor Brian McCabe on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
The program will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in
the Lower Level Conference Room (Room LL 100) in the Liberty Square Building
(entrances on 5th & 6th Streets NW between D & E Streets NW).
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think may be
interested.
Brian
J. McCabe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He
holds secondary appointments an adjunct instructor in the Regional and Urban
Planning program at the School of Continuing Studies; a core faculty member in
the program on Justice and Peace Studies; an affiliated faculty member in the
Department of African-American Studies; and an affiliated faculty member in the
McCourt School of Public Policy. Through his scholarship and teaching,
Professor McCabe investigates the structures that contribute to social
inequality, especially in American cities. His research offers an
interdisciplinary approach to the study of cities, combining his training in
sociology, geography and public policy to investigate housing policy and other
urban issues. Professor McCabe graduated from the School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University in 2002. He completed a Master’s degree in urban
geography at the London School of Economics in 2004 and a PhD in the Sociology
Department at New York University in 2011. To learn more about Professor
McCabe, please visit https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RexIAAS/brian-mccabe.
Over
the last couple decades, the sweep of gentrification has remade many urban
neighborhoods, including in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. In
doing so, it has raised new questions about the rights of long-term citizens to
shape their own communities, and the unequal distribution of benefits from the
process of gentrification. Despite extensive neighborhood changes, the
ghettoization of poverty and a legacy of racial segregation continue to pose
unique challenges to the creation of more equitable, just cities. These
challenges, many of which are heightened by the process of gentrification, push
issues of social justice to the forefront of our conversations about
contemporary cities. They raise new questions about inequality, equity
and the twenty-first century urban condition.
Please
join us as we learn about and discuss these questions and issues.