Fractured Mobilization: Miami’s Little Haiti Confronts Mega-Real Estate Speculation Article

Tardanico, R. (2024). Fractured Mobilization: Miami’s Little Haiti Confronts Mega-Real Estate Speculation . 11(1), 127-136. 10.13060/23362839.2024.11.1.570

cited authors

  • Tardanico, R

abstract

  • Disenfranchised urban communities worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to land dispossession and cultural erasure as neoliberal regimes unleash intensified financial speculation within polarizing and splintering local/global class and racialized disparities. A dilemma of disenfranchised communities when confronting speculative intrusions where prospective allies have become marginalized or eliminated is whether, and to what degree, to resist such threats contentiously at the risk of zero-sum defeat versus accommodative negotiations seeking to rescue modest benefits while mitigating dislocations. The forms and intensities of community responses can be conceptualized as embedded within multiscalar state-society and local politico-spatial configurations. From that perspective, I address a predominantly Black immigrant district, Miami’s Little Haiti, as it confronts mega-real estate speculation within a metropolitan political economy of corporate real estate hegemony and accelerating racialized expulsions. The contentious versus accommodative dilemma and local/supralocal political landscape fractured and neutralized the Haitian collective responses. I conclude by discussing the case’s theoretical/comparative implications.

publication date

  • January 1, 2024

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 127

end page

  • 136

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 1