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Nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research

Jason Byrne

Griffith School of Environment, G31, 3.06 Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, 4222, Australia, jason.byrne{at}griffith.edu.au

Jennifer Wolch

College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 230 Wurster Hall 1820, Berkeley, CA 94720-1820, USA

Geographic research on parks has been wide-ranging but has seldom examined how and why people use parks, leaving these questions to leisure science, which privileges socio-demographic variables over urban socio-spatial explanations (eg, historical, political-economic, and location factors). This article examines recent geographic perspectives on park use, drawing upon environmental justice, cultural landscape, and political ecology paradigms to redirect our attention from park users to a more critical appreciation of the historical, socio-ecological, and political-economic processes that operate through, and in turn shape, park spaces and park-going behaviors. We challenge partial, user-orientated approaches and suggest new directions for geographic research on parks.

Key Words: cultural landscape • environmental justice • nature • political ecology • race • urban parks.

This version was published on December 1, 2009

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 33, No. 6, 743-765 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0309132509103156
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