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Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality de Robin Bartram

Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality

Autor Robin Bartram
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 aug 2022
A startling look at the power and perspectives of city building inspectors as they navigate unequal housing landscapes.
 
Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at the heart of sociologist Robin Bartram’s analysis of how individuals impact—or attempt to impact—housing inequality. In Stacked Decks, she reveals surprising patterns in the judgment calls inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. These predominantly white, male inspectors largely recognize that they work within an unequal housing landscape that systematically disadvantages poor people and people of color through redlining, property taxes, and city spending that favor wealthy neighborhoods. Stacked Decks illustrates the uphill battle inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226821146
ISBN-10: 0226821145
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 8 halftones, 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Robin Bartram is assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University.

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Stacked Decks
Chapter 2. Building Inspections
Chapter 3. Rentals and Relative Assessments
Chapter 4. Helping Out Homeowners: Changing Faces and Stubborn Realities
Chapter 5. Justice Blockers
Conclusion. Reshuffling the Deck
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Methodology
Appendix B. Building Violation Counts
Appendix C. Map of Strategic Task Force Inspections
Notes
References
Index

Recenzii

"Bartram examines the role of housing inspectors in Chicago, focusing on the judgment calls that inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. . . . Her analysis highlights the uphill battle that inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources."

"This volume is a very accessible exploration of how different sources of inequality contribute to unequal housing outcomes by race, income, and social class in US cities. . . In this case study, [Bartram] focuses on the ways in which institutions, laws, decisions, and policies contribute to inequality in the housing market in Chicago. . . This work will likely be of strongest interest to students and scholars of urban sociology, urban studies, urban planning, and possibly public administration. It may also be suitable for general readers looking for publications on housing issues in contemporary US cities."

"The heart of Bartram’s book is a rich, nuanced description of her time accompanying Chicago’s building inspectors on their rounds as they responded to complaints called into the city’s Department of Buildings. What she found is not only interesting as ethnological description, but challenges much of the conventional wisdom. . . It should be read by anyone concerned with the reality on the ground in America’s urban neighborhoods. . ."

"A fresh look at the work of building inspectors. . . . Stacked Decks is a much-needed examination of how inspectors make sense of complex situations, and how their sense of deservingness influences their judgment."

“Bartram’s smart, succinct, and elegantly written book is ostensibly an ethnographic study of building inspectors in Chicago.  In reality, Stacked Decks is a book about power. It uses the daily struggles of building inspectors in Chicago to illuminate a fundamental moral, economic and political problem of our era – the persistence of racialized housing inequality despite the efforts of “frontline” city workers to mitigate it. Distinguishing between individual inspectors’ efforts to mete out justice and the systemic workings of power, Bartram shows us that the former will always be thwarted as long as the latter remains obscure. Stacked Decks is a compact study that raises big questions.  Anyone interested in cities, the built environment, racism, wealth inequality, and the operation of municipal, legal, and financial power will want to read it.”

“Stacked Decks is a much needed and methodologically cutting-edge example of the EMERGING sociology of housing, giving us new tools with which to observe that the long-standing structures that made housing opportunity unequal by race are alive and well in new forms. Expertly leveraging ethnography, interviews, archival records on code violations, and 311 calls, Bartram brings into glaring relief the seemingly mundane and invisible dynamics of urban housing, sounding an alarm about housing insecurity, racial equity, and social mobility in America. Stacked Decks is a must read as we as a nation consider how to confront our housing crises.”
 

“Bartram brilliantly opens a window onto an enormous world of overlooked activity. We see how Chicago building inspectors take ‘stabs at justice’ as they enforce the law. Reading this book compels us to think about how all workers in America understand inequalities and injustices—and how they might use their discretion on the job to right the country’s wrongs.”