Violent and Verdant

Systemic Injustice in Public Parks in the U.S.

KangJae Jerry Lee (Autor)

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152 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-66192-6 (ISBN)

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Public parks in the U.S. are one of the most contentious and paradoxical places. Many Americans believe public parks are encapsulations of nature, promoters of health, and embodiments of egalitarianism and democracy, providing a wide range of health, economic, cultural, and social benefits to users. Yet, the historical reality of American public parks has been riddled with greed, hypocrisy, prejudice, and ulterior motives of the rich and powerful. Numerous people have been displaced, exploited, and even killed because of public parks.

Drawing from multiple disciplines such as sociology, history, geography, urban planning, environmental science, and leisure studies, this book takes a two-pronged approach to provide critical and fresh insights on public parks in the U.S. It looks back, illuminating how parks have been sites of enduring violence and oppression. But it also looks forward, offering practical strategies and philosophical reimaginations of parks’ conception, development, and management.

Violent and Verdant: Systemic Injustice in Public Parks in the U.S. gives voice to the people who have been marginalized by public parks and rectify the centuries of environmental and social injustice surrounding public parks.

KangJae “Jerry” Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism at the University of Utah. Lee has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and delivered dozens of keynotes and invited presentations. His scholarship has been published in Tourism Geographies, Journal of Travel, Forestry & Urban Greening, and Leisure Sciences [Impact Factor: 5.01]. Moreover, his research has been featured by dozens of major media outlets. Lee’s research and teaching have been recognized by several awards: 2020 Best Research Paper Award from The Academy of Leisure Sciences, the Golden Apple Award in Excellent Teaching and Mentorship at the University of Missouri (2017), the U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship (the highest recognition for doctoral students at Texas A&M), Diversity Scholarship from National Recreation and Park Association, and Korean American Scholarship Foundation. He is also serving as a Senior Associate Editor of Leisure Sciences.

Introduction. Part 1. 1. Community and Urban Parks 2. State Parks 3. National Parks Part 2. 4. Systemic Park Injustice and the People’s Resistance 5. Creating Democratic Parks in an Undemocratic Nation?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	New Critical Viewpoints on Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-66192-5 / 1032661925
ISBN-13	978-1-032-66192-6 / 9781032661926
Zustand	Neuware