Counterpoints

Counterpoints brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, each chapter reflects different frameworks for understanding the Bay Area’s ongoing urban upheaval, including: evictions and root shock, indigenous geographies, health and environmental racism, state violence, transportation and infrastructure, migration and relocation, and speculative futures. By weaving these themes together, Counterpoints expands normative urban-studies framings of gentrification to consider more complex, regional, historically grounded, and entangled horizons for understanding the present. Understanding the tech boom and its effects means looking beyond San Francisco’s borders to consider the region as a socially, economically, and politically interconnected whole and reckoning with the area’s deep history of displacement, going back to its first moments of settler colonialism. Counterpoints combines the work of community partners, longtime community members who have fought waves of racial dispossession, and youth envisioning decolonial futures.

Contrapunctele reuneste cartografie, eseuri, ilustratii, poezie si multe altele, pentru a descrie luptele de gentrificare si rezistenta din intreaga zona din Golful San Francisco si pentru a actiona ca o foaie de parcurs pentru realizarea de cunostinte si activism contra-hegemonice. Compilat de Proiectul de cartografiere anti-evacuare, fiecare capitol reflecta diferite cadre pentru intelegerea rasturnarii urbane in curs a zonei golfului, inclusiv: evacuari si socuri radiculare, geografii indigene, rasism de sanatate si mediu, violenta de stat, transport si infrastructura, migratie si relocare si futuri speculative.