East Village Research Articles

Zoning initiatives, divide or unite? Anti-displacement struggles in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, New York City, 2002–2018

ABSTRACT Rezoning is an instrument used to unleash potential economic developments. Although anyone can apply for amendments to the zoning map and the zoning text in New York City (NYC), rezoning is a coalitional effort that reflects class dynamics. This paper examines zoning coalitional practices inside Manhattan’s East Village, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side (LES) between 2002 and 2018. Recent literature highlights the impacts of rezoning and real estate growth coalitions on displacement, but it overlooks their linkages. The paper combines urban planners’ analytics on racialized rezoning with urban regime theorists’ framework on coalition formation to grasp such linkages. It argues that zoning initiatives constitute major turning points in coalition formation and coalition disintegration inside ethno-racial enclaves. Zoning initiatives begin with city producers and ethno-racial elites forming a growth coalition. When the shift from coalition formation to coalition disintegration occurs, the shift alters the scope of actions in zoning initiatives. Strategic disintegration was a response to ongoing anti-displacement struggles. Subsequently, city producers launched zoning initiatives in atomizing sub-districts within Chinatown and the LES. The paper concludes that Chinatown and the LES are witnessing a new coalition formation and pro-longed attempts to undermine anti-displacement struggles.

Between certain death and a possible future: Blacklips performance cult’s post-apocalyptic queer futurity

The following text provides a glimpse into New York City’s experimental drag scene and late-night culture in the early 1990s. It introduces the work of Blacklips Performance Cult, a group founded by ANOHNI, Johanna Constantine, and Psychotic Eve in 1992, and presents their gory, monster camp plays as a form of worldmaking in response to the cosmic grief of mass queer death in the wake of the epidemic that decimated the East Village arts community in the preceding decade.

It does not run in the family: Chinese performance art and the queering of the Confucian family

Since the beginning of the post-reform era (1978–present), China has witnessed dramatic changes to its society such as falling birth rates, rising divorce rates and changing attitudes towards patrilineal values – trends that suggest a move away from the Confucian family. Yet, it remains the normative family model in China today. In this article, I examine a range of performance artworks that depict queer subjects and familial relationships to uncover the ways that these performances subvert current understandings of the Confucian family and (re)imagine families where queerness can emerge. First, I turn to Fan Popo and David Zheng’s documentary New Beijing, New Marriage (2009) to examine how it expands the definition of Confucian marriages to include same-sex couples. Second, I examine how He Chengyao’s Mama and Me (2001) and 99 Needles (2001) provide representation and reparations for the relationships and individuals that are rendered marginal in Confucian teachings – namely, the relationship between mother and daughter and individuals who suffer from mental health issues. Lastly, I study the Beijing East Village (Dongcun) as a form of chosen family to see how the relationships and collaborations between the different members expand the definition of Confucian family model to include non-biogenetic kinships such as family-like friendships.

EFEKTIFITAS PEMBERLAKUAN PEMBATASAN KEGIATAN MASYARAKAT ( PPKM ) BAGI USAHA KECIL MASYARAKAT DI KELURAHAN MALALAYANG SATU TIMUR KECAMATAN MALALAYANG KOTA MANADO

In Law Number 20 of 2008 concerning Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, it is stated that MSMEs are business activities that are able to expand employment opportunities and are able to provide broad economic services to the community, and can play a role in the process of equitable distribution and increase in people's income, encouraging economic growth. , and play a role in realizing national stability. However, from observations in the field, the researchers found several problems, namely they were still operating past the time limit that had been set, namely at 21.00 WITA to 00.00 WITA, Warung the process approach, the goal approach. approaches). This study uses a qualitative method. There were 15 informants in this study. Data collection techniques used are interviews. However, in reality, small and medium enterprises still feel the impact of the imposition of restrictions on community activities, namely the community suffers losses or decreases in income, the government must find other solutions in an effort to provide stimulation for business actors other than providing capital (BPUM). related or looking for a solution so that (PPKM) does not have a bad impact on small business actors in the malalayang one east village. So that nothing bad happens for business actors or goes bankrupt due to a decrease in business income resulting in reduced operating hours of business premises and restrictions on the number of customers or customers in a place of business even though they have implemented health protocols so that income is less stable for small business actors in Malalayang Village. One East.
 Keywords: Effectiveness, Small Business, Community

On the Problem of Collective Identity in Beijing's East Village

Since its emergence in China in the 1980s, performance art has been one of the most pioneering art forms in modern art. In the early days, the group behavior of the artists in Dongcun, Beijing, China, had a strong impact on today's performance art form. In this paper, taking "Adding One Meter to the Nameless Mountain" as an example, the author gives some thoughts on the collective identity of Beijing Dongcun's art, and gives a rough explanation from the perspectives of the background of the artwork, the process of its creation, and the subsequent derivation of the artwork.

Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village

Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village

Something Beautiful and Powerful: Politics, Art, and Bread and Puppet Theater

Something Beautiful and Powerful: Politics, Art, and Bread and Puppet Theater

Analisisa Usaha Produksi Rumput Laut di Desa Jumiang Timur Kecamatan Pademawu Kabupaten Pamekasan

Optimizing efforts to increase food security requires innovation in increasing the effectiveness of commodity flows through better coordination. One of the Indonesian commodities that has great potential but has so far received little attention is Seaweed, which is one of the most widely produced and consumed plant commodities in Indonesia. Seaweed cultivation is carried out by the community in East Jumiang Village because this area is very suitable for growing seaweed plants, so seaweed farming is one of the existing farmer activities, besides that the community is more knowledgeable about traditional seaweed cultivation methods. In East Jumiang Village, farmers Cultivate seaweed using random method. This study aims to determine the efficiency of seaweed farming in Jumiang East Village, Pademawu District, Pamekasan Regency. The analysis used in this study using Revenue Cost Ratio (R/C) is cost efficiency. The results of the research on the efficiency of seaweed cultivation in Jumiang East Village, Pademawu District, Pamekasan Regency are: fixed costs in seaweed farming are Rp. 1575000 and variable costs are Rp. 316000 so the total cost of seaweed farming is Rp. 1891000, revenue is Rp. 540000 and profit is Rp. 1351000. The value of R/C Ratio > 1, which is 2.50, means that seaweed production farming in Jumiang Timur Village, Pademawu District, Pamekasan Regency, efficient and profitable because with a capital of 2.00 you will get a profit of Rp. 2.50.

A Parametric Study on the Effects of Green Roofs, Green Walls and Trees on Air Quality, Temperature and Velocity

The rapid increase in urbanisation and population growth living in urban areas leads to major problems including increased rates of air pollution and global warming. Assessing the impact of buildings on wind flow, air temperature and pollution dispersion on people at the pedestrian level is, therefore, of crucial importance for urban design. In this study, the effect of different forms of urban vegetation including green roofs, green walls and trees on velocity, air temperature and air quality is assessed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for a selected area of the East Village. This study indicates that adding a building increases air temperature, pollution concentration and velocity at the pedestrian level. A parametric analysis is conducted to assess the impact of various key parameters on air temperature, pollution and velocity at the pedestrian level. The variables under consideration include wind speed, ranging from 4–8 m/s at a reference height of 10 m, and vegetation cooling intensity, ranging from 250–500 W·m−3. Three scenarios are tested in which the streets have no bottom heating, 2 °C bottom heating and 10 °C bottom heating. Pollution is simulated as a form of passive scalar with an emission rate of 100 ppb s−1, considering NO2 as the pollutant. In all cases, vegetation is found to reduce air velocity, pollutant concentration and temperature. However, the presence of vegetation in various forms alters the pattern of pollution dispersion differently. More specifically, the results indicate that planting trees (e.g., birch trees) close to the edge of buildings can decrease the air temperature by up to 2–3 °C at the pedestrian level. Increasing the cooling intensity of the vegetation from 250 to 500 W·m−3 results in significantly lower air temperature, whereas lower wind speeds result in a higher concentration of pollutants at the pedestrian level. A combination of green walls and trees is found to be the most effective strategy to improve the thermal environment and air quality.

Pemberdayaan Mayarakat Melalui Pembuatan Keripik Nasi Tempe All Season di Desa Bonea Timur, Kecamatan Bontomanai, Kabupaten Kepulauan Selayar

One of the villages located at the eastern end of the Selayar Islands is Bonea Timur Village. The village is a village located in an altitude area surrounded by mountains but also close to the coast, where the distance is approximately 30 minutes. So that in this village it is also easy to get marine products such as fish. East Bonea village has erratic weather sometimes hot, rainy and suddenly foggy. Based on the weather, the devotees want to help the local community to be more productive in processing foodstuffs such as making tempe rice chips without drying, given the uncertain weather in the village. One of the concrete efforts made is the practice of making "All season tempe rice chips". The purpose of making these chips is to: (1) increase the knowledge of local residents to process the remaining rice (2) so that local residents know other ways of processing tempe and (3) the most important thing is that residents can make all season fish rice chips as income. additional because it has a selling value. The target of all season fish rice processing was attended by four hamlets namely; the hamlets of Lembang Bau, the hamlets of North Buki-buki, South Buki-buki and Bissorang. The activity of making fish rice chips was assisted by several students from STIM Lasaran Jaya considering the large number of people who attended and wanted to be accompanied in the activity.

HALAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ON COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MATANG RAYEUK VILLAGE, IDI TIMUR DISTRICT AND LEUGE VILLAGE, PEREULAK DISTRICT, WEST ACEH REGENCY

The development of halal tourism is one solution to the development of the community's economy and the development of remote villages because most of the distribution of objects and tourist attractions are in the village area. In Gampong Matang Rayeuk PP, Idi Timur District and Gampong Leuge, Peureulak District, East Aceh Regency, they are currently developing halal tourism for the economic development of the community. This study aims to analyze: (1) the strategy of developing halal tourism on the economic development of the community in Matang Rayeuk PP Village, East Idi District and Leuge Village, Peureulak District, East Aceh Regency. (2), community participation in the development of halal tourism on the economic development of the community in Matang Rayeuk Village, East Idi Subdistrict and Leuge Village, Peureulak District, East Aceh Regency (3), implications of halal tourism development on the economic development of the community in Matang Rayeuk Village, PP, Idi Subdistrict. East and Leuge Village, Peureulak District, East Aceh Regency. In this study, researchers used the constructivist paradigm. In accordance with the paradigm and problems chosen in this study, this study uses a qualitative approach. The data analysis technique in this study uses the Miles and Huberman interactive model. The results of the study show that: (1) Halal tourism development strategies for the economic development of the community (2) Community participation are: Tour managers, tour guides, producers of various creative products, traders and members of art groups. (3) Implications for the economy of Gampong Matang Rayeuk PP, Idi Timur District and Gampong Leuge, Peureulak District, East Aceh Regency

The Relationship between the Character of the Mother in Labor and the Retention of the Placenta at the Afisya Clinic, Hamlet III, Melur, Sambirejo East village, Percut Sei Tuan District Deli Serdang Regency 2017 - 2021

Retention of the placenta is a delay in the delivery of the placenta for thirty minutes after the birth of the baby. In some cases, recurrent placental retention (habitual retention of the placenta) may occur. The placenta must be delivered immediately because it can cause complications such as bleeding, infection as a result of inanimate objects, placental incarceration can occur, can cause placental polyps, and malignant degeneration of choriocarcinoma. Afisya Clinic, Hamlet III Melur, East Sambirejo Village, Percut Sei Tuan District, Deli Serdang Regency, 2017-2021. The study was conducted at the Afisya clinic from January to June 2022. The type of research was descriptive analytical with case control. The population and sample were 92 with nonprobability sampling technique or saturated sample, the research instrument was clinical records or medical records. Data processing by editing, coding, tabulating, and data entry. The results of the univariate analysis showed that of the 92 mothers who experienced retained placenta, the majority of mothers with Retention Placenta were at mild risk as many as 83 respondents (90.2%). The majority of the age at risk were 50 respondents (54.3%). (54.3%) The majority of risky delivery distances were 48 respondents (52.2%). From the results of the statistical test, the Odds Ratio (OR) = 0.128. 95% CI = 0.015-1.070 and P value 0.036 <0.05, which means that there is a significant relationship between maternal age characteristics and the incidence of retained placenta. From the results of the statistical test, the value of Odds ratio (OR) = 0.128. 95% CI = 0.015-1.070 and P value 0.036 <0.05, which means that there is a significant relationship between maternal parity characteristics and the incidence of retained placenta. From the results of the statistical test, the value of Odds ratio (OR) = 0.116. 95% CI = 0.014-0.972 and P value 0.032 <0.05, which means that there is a significant relationship between the characteristics of the distance between the mother and the incidence of retained placenta. It can be used for clinicians as knowledge, and more often provides counseling during pregnancy in an effort to detect early and can prevent complications during childbirth.

A Study on the Factors Influencing the Participation of Residents in the Renovation of Old Neighborhoods from the Perspective of Social Capital Theory: A Case Study of Huainan's Dongyuan East Village Neighborhood

Based on social capital theory, this study combines a review of relevant literature to construct an innovative model to study the influencing factors of residents' participation in the renovation of old neighborhoods, and uses the generalized ordered logistic regression method to analyze the influence of residents' personal characteristics, neighborhood relationship, sense of community and identity on residents' participation in Huainan City, Anhui Province. The results show that in third- and fourth-tier cities, the low age of participants leads to low participation, the duration of residence and the willingness to participate are positively correlated, and the willingness of highly qualified personnel to participate in the renovation of old neighborhoods is lower than that of middle-income groups, the improvement of neighborhood relations and the enhancement of the sense of community have an important role in promoting the leap of residents' participation, and the relationship between the enhancement of identity and the leap of residents' participation shows an inverted The relationship between the improvement of identity and the jump of residents' participation has an inverted 'U' shape, which needs to be regulated by the government and other social participation groups.

Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice

In the 1980s I lived in the East Village, and as I was strolling around the neighborhood one day with a couple of Puerto Rican friends, we noticed that a large group of drag queens were strutting up and down the street, and everyday people were going about their daily activities wearing wigs, not properly arranged on their heads but placed there as a hat, a quirky flourish, and a statement. It was Wigstock, the festival of drag performances founded in 1984 as a response to the hostile anti-LGBTQ environment fostered by the state’s reaction to the AIDS crisis and the neighborhood’s increasing gentrification. My friends and I quickly donned wigs and headed to Tompkins Square, where the stage had been set up for the performances. Dressed in extravagantly creative outfits and over-the-top, towering wigs, the queens on stage were by turns shady, empowering, and campy, all the while promoting a world of tolerance and love, a kind of queer utopia. Lady Bunny had even tried to put a wig on the Statue of Liberty, thus reclaiming the entire city as an LGBTQ, gender-fluid, liberated territory. Soon I was backstage photographing Lady Bunny, RuPaul, and Joey Arias as they were beginning their successful careers. And infused with a sense of urgency—that we might not be alive the following year—I began to take photographs of the ephemeral utopian gestures that they were creating as they claimed the common communal ground as a space of love, liberty, and nonviolent joyous diversity.In 2019, after a long twelve-year hiatus and nearly forty years from its beginning, the Wigstock Festival was revived at the gentrified and refurbished Pier 17. But the city had changed by then, and many performers and artists now found it financially impossible to remain a part of it. This is the world that my series Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice at Wigstock 2019 attempts to capture—the world of a corporate neoliberal New York where drag performers and activists have been disconnected from community and forced to look at the city from the renovated and reclaimed margins of the East River piers. Facing a homogeneously gentrified Manhattan skyline, which is visible in some photographs in the series, Dirty Martini’s mordantly joyful parody of national symbols critiques the city’s latest development and its sense of justice, turning consumerism not into profitability but into a celebration of drag performance’s excessively voluptuous, baroque, hard-to-manage-and-mainstream body.With this series I seek to confront New York’s latest urban development with drag performance’s historical gender utopia, while at the same time to reflect on the contemporary commodification and mainstreaming of gender-dissident performance and its resistances—a reflection that intersects with the broader preoccupation of my photographic oeuvre: documenting the possibilities for creating a resistant and joyful sense of community among populations that have been targeted and displaced and forced to face the devastating impact of colonialism, AIDS, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Review Essay: Am I Blue?: Black Music & White Male Self-Construction

Review Essay: <i>Am I Blue?: Black Music &amp; White Male Self-Construction</i>

The UnAmerican

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Collaborations by Greg Masters et al

Reviewed by: Collaborations by Greg Masters et al Sparrow (bio) collaborations Greg Masters et al. Crony Books http://www.cronybooks.net/collaborations/ 140 pages; Print, $14.99 Olga says the cycle is overbut this house will stand Thus begins Collaborations, a book of poems written by pairs and threesomes (and occasionally foursomes) of poets in the East Village of Manhattan. Most of the poems are dated; the first, “Punk Is Dead,” is from a frosty December 2, 1978. (I’m just guessing at the weather.) All of them are cowritten by Greg Masters. The one quoted above was also by Tom Weigel. It was in 1978 that I returned to Manhattan, after almost seven years away. For a long time, everyone I met in New York had arrived in 1978. This was during the sunny, hopeful Jimmy Carter years—though Alphabet City (the eastern section of the East Village) could be explosively scary. The last dated poem in Collaborations is from an overcast March 7, 1982. (That’s another imaginary forecast.) The co-conspirator is the mythic Ted Berrigan. These poems are very “New York”—in particular, they are the writings of people becoming New Yorkers. I grew up in Manhattan, and I can sense when someone is attempting to transform into a Gothamite. It’s like learning a language: [End Page 163] With the sun and the copsAnd the drugs and the mugsGrass fortunes humid nothingSweet thigh disco nicety den (From “Living on Bananas” with Michael Scholnick and Vito Ricci.) How do you begin a collective poem? Usually with a description of the room you’re in, or a line from the conversation you’re having. One might argue that the success of a collaborative poem entirely depends on the exact moment that it starts. It’s like leaping into a turning jump rope. “Kiev” (cowritten with Tom Weigel) begins: Challah bread and a window seat.Two bowls of soup The Kiev was a Ukrainian restaurant on Second Avenue, which closed in 2006. Quite possibly, this poem was written on a placemat. In his biographical note, Bob Holman remarks: “I used to bring a portable TV to parties so we wouldn’t miss Saturday Night Live.” Is he suggesting that improv, which had recently emerged on mainstream television, was influencing poets? If so, he’s right. But the first rule of improv is, “Always say ‘yes’ to any prompt,” which isn’t true of these poetic explorations. One was free to say “maybe,” or “no,” or to change the subject entirely: Ohio, how I remember!Shook flat with thisnational phenomenon,call it Ferlin Husky. (That’s the beginning of “Untitled,” written with Gary Lenhart.) It should be remembered that these poems were composed by people surrounded by graffiti, even on the inner walls of subway cars. Collaborations is the closest I’ve seen to Cubist poetry. Though almost all the lines have semantic meaning, you feel you’re seeing a room in the shards of a shattered mirror. “Writing collaboratively was as much a social activity as an artistic endeavor back in those days,” Greg wrote in an email interview. “We were young and, for the most part, unencumbered with jobs or family obligations. . . . For [End Page 164] us back then, it was a downtown parlor game and literary team sport.” Many of these pieces are quite funny—at least according to my overactive sense of the absurd; for example: Get out of your apartment, youBritish moron. (From “The Good and the Restless,” composed with Steve Levine and Tom Weigel.) Rarely are the poems short, except for “Advice” (cowritten by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright): Now, voyageurs, wouldn’t it besilly to enjoy ourselvesat the expense of warlordswho pay for your penitence. This is perhaps the most political poem, as well. Cowriting poetic lines also seems like a form of psychotherapy for people too poor to afford therapists: Castle heartache, my Chevy for you.There’s room in the back. (From “Brown Alsatian Dirge” with Michael Scholnick and Tom Weigel.) I asked Greg how many collaborations were dropped from the book. “A good deal was left out,” he replied. “On some, the...

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Walking (with) the platform: bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver

ABSTRACT This paper engages the increasing significance of urban platforms through the lens of the aesthetics of gentrification. We report on “walks-with” platformized bikesharing infrastructure across three neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Canada: gentrified Mount Pleasant/South Main, gentrifying Strathcona/Chinatown, and the gentrifiable East Village. Drawing on photographs, reflections, and observations of the visualities of select bikeshare stations’ microgeographical surrounds, we theorize that bikesharing materialities (stations and cycles) function aesthetically through dynamics of serialization, which designates how urban platform materialities express a replicated aesthetics in their own right, and the ways in which they have emerged as a constitutive element of the repeatedly encountered tableaus of gentrification in Vancouver. We argue that these dynamics of serialization inform and expand modes of visual place-making by commodifying spaces of/for gentrification, and condition reconciliations of contradictory visual elements in the built environment as consistent with processes and/or prospects of gentrification occurring at the sub-neighborhood scale.