This is part I or a 2 part session, part II can be found here.
CHAIR: LOW, Setha
CHAIR: KESSLER, Bree (CUNY Grad Ctr)
The Safety in Surveillance: The Ethics of Multicultural Spaces in the Moore Street Market.
Creating a space that retains the historical Latino presence but also is a “safe” space in the sense that the place is sensitive to the specific cultural and social needs of different constituencies in the neighborhood may prove essential to ensuring the Moore Street Market’s long-term survival. Yet, “safety” in the Market and in the surrounding neighborhood has focused on increased police presence and internal monitoring by the vendors themselves. This paper discusses the ways that surveillance regimes, within a neighborhood where succession and gentrification are slowly occurring, assist and challenge the creation of a more multicultural Moore Street Market. bckessler@gmail.com (F-99)
SCHENSUL, Jean (Inst for Community Rsch)
Development and Drugs: Contesting Spaces in the City.
In this paper I use data from primary and secondary sources to examine the relationships among the forces of urban renewal, drug marketing, and drug use in a small city in the Northeastern United States. First I will describe the history of apartheid-like policies that have supported disinvestment, dispersed drug markets, and concentrated impoverished populations in socially and economically depleted zones of the city. Next I will discuss and evaluate ways drug dealers, users and activists command, contest and re-arrange sociogeographic space to accommodate social and economic interests and drug practices and to manage risk during a decade of urban reinvestment programs. Jschensu@aol.com (F-99)
AUDANT, Babette (CUNY Grad Ctr)
Public Market or ‘La Marqueta’?: Framing the Future of an Ethnic Market.
Race plays an important and not-sosubtle role in drawing boundaries between people in and around Brooklyn’s Moore Street Market. The neighborhood’s former racial and ethnic diversity is a powerful local myth, though today the market is “Latino.” This paper addresses the challenges of recommending changes that balance desires to open the market to the neighborhood—and hastening already-occurring ethnic succession by newer Mexican immigrants—while respecting its place in the lives of Puerto Ricans. Making the market economically viable may depend on making it more accessible; economic rationale may be justifying a particular vision of public space. b.audant@gmail.com (F-99)
MCKINNEY, Bill (CUNY Grad Ctr)
Ethnography and the Emergence of a Service Centered Anthropologists’ Role.
This paper explores my impact as a place based anthropologist on the emergence and development of a Felon Re-Entry, crisis intervention and youth crime deterrence program based in North Philadelphia called Men In Motion in the Community (MIMIC). Philadelphia has the highest homicide rate amongst major cities in the US. In response to the violence, organizations have emerged with varying strategies to reduce violence as well as support victims and the communities most touched by the issues. MIMIC has come into existence in direct response to a specific communities issue of violence and incarceration. bmckinney@gc.cuny.edu (F-99)
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Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2009.
