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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Parks, Plazas, and Planters: Homelessness and Ecological Development Wednesday, April 24, 2019 In the 1990s, the well-known tactic of "broken-windows policing" targeted homeless people by removing them from core areas of New York City and other global mega-cities. Yet today, with a progressive administration and softer policing in place, homeless New Yorkers still find themselves unable to exist comfortably in public space. How should we understand this shift? In this presentation, I argue that the regime of anti-homelessness in New York has shifted to what I call "ecological development," and present evidence from an ethnographic study to show how green spaces, linear parks, and urban plaza areas have taken up the mantle of anti-homelessness, and how homeless activists resist these nefarious tools of urban planning and development. Time: 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; LAIS Program; Sociology Program Contact: Gregory Morton. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 773-853-1901 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://anthropology.bard.edu/events/