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But police vio­lence ­wasn’t the only source of strife in Hunters Point—toxicity due to contaminants from the nearby shipyard began wreaking havoc. Upon relocation, Marie first obtained a job in the neighborhood’s shipyard, unaware that the “­little white stuff ” from ship sandblasting drums scatte…

­These sharing economy imaginaries, alongside social media discourses of public forums owned by private companies, highlight a novel aspect of Silicon Valley imperialism in which racial cap­i­tal­ist pro­cesses are cloaked by technoliberalism. By technoliberalism, I invoke Neda Atanasoski and Kalin…

Despite the ongoing vio­lence of deracinated dispossession as it compounds Silicon Valley imperialism, Orientalist fantasy, and presocialist property geographies, the fight against racial banishment endures. Over a ­decade after the 2010 Coastei Street eviction, residents are still wastelanded in P…

Up to 30 ­percent of the country’s housing stock was nationalized during socialism, but less than 2 ­percent of housing is public ­today.130 This means that the very concept of social housing has been gentrified out of the public imaginary—­but not for all. Upon restitution, many evictees advocate …

­There has been more attention allocated to the strange properties of property itself throughout transition, which admittedly has been, as Katherine Verdery marks, contentious, to say the least. In the mid-1990s, past ­communist leaders known as the nomenklatura became what she describes as “entrep…