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Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight & C...

Herstad, Kaeleigh.

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Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight & Contested Heritage on the Postindustrial Frontier.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight & Contested Heritage on the Postindustrial Frontier./
作者:	Herstad, Kaeleigh.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	308 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-10A.
標題:	Archaeology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27740981
ISBN:	9781658477888

Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight & Contested Heritage on the Postindustrial Frontier.
Herstad, Kaeleigh.

Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight & Contested Heritage on the Postindustrial Frontier. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 308 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

As of 2014, there were 78,506 blighted structures in the city of Detroit. Quantifying blight according to a set of subjective standards and mapping its presence on the landscape allowed city officials to frame the city's high levels of vacancy and structural abandonment as a crisis requiring immediate intervention in the form of mechanical demolition and, to a lesser extent, deconstruction. In addition to city-level blight removal efforts, Metro Detroit residents have undertaken a variety of property appropriation and salvage practices. This spectrum of activities-from landscape clearance via demolition to the small-scale removal of building materials and artifacts for safekeeping and reuse-has resulted in the fragmentation and redistribution of Detroit's built environment over the course of decades.Drawing on ethnographic data in the form of interviews and participant-observation, archival research, and media and social media analysis, this dissertation documents three interconnected flows of building fragments within and out of Detroit, revealing the layers of association that salvaged materials gain as they circulate. My analysis reveals how narratives that pathologize blight and represent marginalized neighborhoods as 'empty', frontier spaces, carry out the socio-cultural work of rendering blight discoverable as a resource for certain groups so that they can legally and/or ethically harvest building materials. Salvage and demolition as practiced in Detroit thus function as a way for a regional, predominantly white elite to physically and discursively reclaim and 'recolonize' this majority Black city. This research contributes to anthropological understandings of blight removal, salvage practices, and heritage within the context of postindustrial urban decline. I explore how scholars and practitioners can use heritage as a tool for understanding and addressing the needs of postindustrial communities, while also ensuring that the practices they employ do not reinforce and contribute to the legacies of disinvestment, displacement, and trauma that have rendered these materials available for reuse and redistribution.

ISBN: 9781658477888Subjects--Topical Terms:

558412
Archaeology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Deconstruction

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