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“This Port Is Killing People”: Sustainability without Justice in the Neo-Keynesian Green City

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This article examines how regional policymakers in Southern California deployed a green growth strategy that cemented racial, environmental, and class precariousness into the region's ecological fabric. It uses participant observation and extant data to show how environmentalist statecraft provided ideological cover for a type of neo-Keynesian logistics growth regime that used infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy without addressing underlying issues of racial, economic, and environmental justice. Urban political ecology and racial capitalism are used as theoretical frameworks to stretch the boundaries of how sustainability is conceptualized and to challenge assumptions behind a green capitalism framework. Finally, the article examines how labor and environmental justice activists used what Sze et al. (2009, 836) called “cultural and ecological discourses” to challenge the green capitalist agenda by incorporating subaltern spatial imaginaries.

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  • Juan De Lara, 2018. "“This Port Is Killing People”: Sustainability without Justice in the Neo-Keynesian Green City," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 108(2), pages 538-548, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:108:y:2018:i:2:p:538-548
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1393328
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    1. Strale, Mathieu, 2019. "Sustainable urban logistics: What are we talking about?," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 745-751.
    2. Eric Tamatey Lawer & Johannes Herbeck & Michael Flitner, 2019. "Selective Adoption: How Port Authorities in Europe and West Africa Engage with the Globalizing ‘Green Port’ Idea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-22, September.
    3. Guerrero, David & Niérat, Patrick & Thill, Jean-Claude, 2023. "Connecting short and long distance perspectives in freight transportation: Introduction to a special issue," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
    4. Haochen Qian & Fan Zhang & Bing Qiu, 2023. "Deciphering the Evolution, Frontier, and Knowledge Clustering in Sustainable City Planning: A 60-Year Interdisciplinary Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(24), pages 1-27, December.
    5. César Ducruet & Hidekazu Itoh & Bárbara Polo Martin & Mame Astou Séné & Mariantonia Lo Prete & Ling Sun & Hidekazu Itoh & Yoann Pigné, 2023. "Ports and their influence on local air pollution and public health: a global analysis," EconomiX Working Papers 2023-32, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
    6. Rachel Slocum, 2018. "Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(10), pages 1-25, October.

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