J. Phillip Thompson’s research while affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other places

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Publications (6)

Is Now the Time to Break with the Democrats?
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December 2017

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New Labor Forum

J. Phillip Thompson
Place Matters, and So Does Race

March 2016

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Urban Affairs Review

J. Phillip Thompson

Concerning the central thesis of Place Matters, I support the idea of regional equity and their analysis that place matters for people’s differing life prospects. However, to paraphrase Cornell West, I think “race matters” more than geography. It helps us understand why people of color, especially Blacks, are in places that became bad, and it is also why it is difficult to move Black people out of these places. Has the United States changed so much that White working-class suburbanites are ready to unite with Blacks and Latinos to force a more equitable distribution of resources from the wealthy suburbs? The current campaigns of Sanders and Clinton point in different directions on this question, yet it does not mean that the fight for regional governance can be avoided. Beyond the need to reduce gross inequalities within regions, regional governance and planning is sensible and effective from the perspective of transportation, health, housing, economic development, ecology, and politics.

Citations (3)

... This discourse underscores the fact that there is no climate justice without social justice. Echoing Thompson's (2017) more general observation of urban progressive politics, communities of color are strong partners for environmental and climate activism. However, activists and advocates emphasize procedural justice over redistribution and institutional reform (issues historically central to progressive movements). ...

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From Progressive Cities to Resilient Cities: Lessons from History for New Debates in Equitable Adaptation to Climate Change
The Future of Urban Populism: Will Cities Turn the Political Tides?
  • Citing Article

  • January 2017

New Labor Forum

J. Phillip Thompson

... The series of chapters go through some of the major place concepts as well as new developments of place understanding in light of virtual worlds, spirituality, and disaster. As numerous works have suggested 'place matters' (Alkon & Traugot, 2008;Beech, 2014;Garfinkel, 2019;Jack, 2010;Malatzky et al., 2020;Pares, Marti-Costa, & Blanco, 2014;Rickly-Boyd, 2013;Strom, 2017;Thompson, 2017;Wasfi, Steinmetz-Wood, & Kestens, 2017), hopefully this work further emphasises this point in a tourism context and, in terms of developing a better understanding of place in a mobile and connected world, how tourism is significant for place. ...

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Place matters!: Introduction to sense of place and place attachment in tourism
Place Matters, and So Does Race
  • Citing Article

  • March 2016

Urban Affairs Review

J. Phillip Thompson