Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods

摘要: Local activists engaged in contemporary environmental justice struggles not only fight against traditional forms of hazardous locally unwanted land uses (LULUs), they also organize to make their neighborhoods livable and green. However, urban activism is at a crossroads: as marginalized become revitalized, outside investors start value them again themselves invest green amenities. Yet vulnerable residents are now raising concerns about the risk displacement from consequence gentrification processes. Their fear linked amenities such new parks or remodeled waterfronts, well (most recently) healthy food stores. Using case conflict around Whole Foods supermarket Boston, MA, I examine how venues stores labeled natural can create socio-spatial inequality together with privilege, exclusion racially diverse neighborhoods. analyze high-end chains target inner-city for growth profit potential, demonstrate that arrival contributes what call ‘supermarket greenlining'. This greenlining illustrates process gentrification, manipulation health sustainability discourses by supporters. The opening supermarkets thus converts into LULUs historically groups.