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Working Toward Justice Through Body-Map Storytelling
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Elizabeth L. Sweet
Focusing on planning theory and qualitative research methodologies, Professor Sweet teaches in the Departments of Urban Planning & Community Development and Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She engages in collaborative community economic development, specifically the links between economies, violence, and identities. Using feminist, anti-racist and decolonial frameworks, her work in U.S. Native, Black, Latino and Latin American communities has led to long term collaborations and inclusive projects that both push the boundaries of planning theory and methods while at the same time provides practical planning interventions. She has proposed the use of body map storytelling and community mapping as innovative ways to co-create data and strategies with communities on a wide range of issues and urban problems. Sweet has also been very active in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within universities through organizing events, student recruitment, and publishing both research and teaching articles on the same.
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