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Critical Heat Studies: Deconstructing Heat Studies for Climate Justice
Emergent planning strategies to address heat-driven health inequities are informed by studies examining how these distributional concerns relate to the urban built environment. Through a critical review, I argue that this ‘heat scholarship’ largely operationalizes heat as a disembodied, depoliticized, and ahistorical entity detached from lived experiences that connect the built environment with people’s health. This paper makes contributions across critical environmental justice scholarship and planning, providing a conceptual and methodological intervention through four ‘Critical Heat Studies’ principles: 1) Social production of heat, 2) Heat as a form of institutionally-sanctioned violence, 3) Intersectionality and heat epistemologies, and 4) Thermal (in)security.
Critical Heat Studies: Deconstructing Heat Studies for Climate Justice
Emergent planning strategies to address heat-driven health inequities are informed by studies examining how these distributional concerns relate to the urban built environment. Through a critical review, I argue that this ‘heat scholarship’ largely operationalizes heat as a disembodied, depoliticized, and ahistorical entity detached from lived experiences that connect the built environment with people’s health. This paper makes contributions across critical environmental justice scholarship and planning, providing a conceptual and methodological intervention through four ‘Critical Heat Studies’ principles: 1) Social production of heat, 2) Heat as a form of institutionally-sanctioned violence, 3) Intersectionality and heat epistemologies, and 4) Thermal (in)security.
Critical Heat Studies: Deconstructing Heat Studies for Climate Justice
Hamstead, Zoé A. (author)
Planning Theory & Practice ; 24 ; 153-172
2023-03-15
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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| British Library Online Contents | 2008