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Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)

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This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit used to be written in collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. Fitzgerald, at its core, is dedicated to understanding global phenomena through the intensive study of a small, local place.

Beginning with an 1816 encounter between the Ojibwa population and the neighborhood’s first surveyor, William Bunge examines the racialized imposition of local landscapes over the course of European American settlement. Historical events are firmly located in space―a task Bunge accomplishes through liberal use of maps and frequent references to recognizable twentieth-century landmarks.

More than a work of historical geography, Fitzgerald is a political intervention. By 1967 the neighborhood used to be mostly African American; Black Power used to be ascendant; and Detroit would experience an incredible rebel. Immersed in the day by day life of the area, Bunge encouraged residents to tell their stories and to take into accounts local politics in spatial terms. His desire to undertake a different type of geography led him to create a work that used to be nothing like an ordinary work of social science. The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book―an incredible theoretical contribution to urban geography that may be also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit right through a turbulent era.

A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication

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