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Journal of Community Practice

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-13-2026

Subjects

Community practice -- Social justice, Illustrative cases

Abstract

Place-based harms comprise direct threats to community wellbeing within the spaces where people live. These harms, rooted in structural and cultural violence, are codified in policies and programs that contribute to poverty, homelessness, over-policing and surveillance, and environmental injustices. This paper argues, although community practitioners are needed to work alongside communities impacted by place-based harms, there are critical tensions and tradeoffs embedded within the place-based strategies. To illustrate this, we draw from the Contested Places Typology and present cases that highlight key tensions, tradeoffs, and nuances associated with its six approaches: (1) Reparation, (2) Remembrance, (3) Regeneration, (4) Resistance, (5) Reform, and (6) Repatriation and Rematriation. We contend these six approaches can help students and practitioners imagine new possibilities for justly responding to place-based harms.

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© 2026 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativesLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms onwhich this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

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DOI

10.1080/10705422.2026.2642309

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/44552

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