⎯⎯Publications⎯⎯
Selected academic articles, essays, and book chapters
Summers, Brandi T. 2026. “When the Margin is the Center: Urban Geography and Possibility Amid Crisis.” Urban Geography, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2601043.
Summers, Brandi T. 2026. “Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide.” Places Journal, March.
Summers, Brandi T. and Moriah Ulinskas. 2025. “Archiving Oakland.” Places Journal, April.
Summers, Brandi T. and Juleon Robinson. 2025. “Black Geographies.” Pp. 159-170. In J. Winders and I. Ashutosh, eds. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Summers, Brandi T. 2024. “The Reparative Schematics of Housing in Zachary Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession.” Critical Sociology 51(3): 601-604.
Summers, Brandi and Desiree Fields. 2024. “Speculative Urban Worldmaking: Meeting Financial Violence with a Politics of Collective Care,” Antipode 56(3): 821-840.
Summers, Brandi T. 2023. “Picturing the Textures of a Chocolate City.” Pp. 143-149. In G. Harris and A. Watson, eds. Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City, Delmonico Books/High Museum of Art.
Summers, Brandi. 2022. “Urban Phantasmagorias.” City 26(2-3): 191-198.
Summers, Brandi Thompson and Olalekan Jeyifous. 2022. “Apocryphal Gospel of Oakland: (Im)permanence, Improvisation, and Our Absurdist Future.” Perspecta 54: Yale Journal of Architecture.
Summers, Brandi. 2022. “Black Insurgent Aesthetics and the Public Imaginary,” Urban Geography 43(6): 837-847.
Summers, Brandi T. 2021. “Untimely Futures.” Places Journal, November 9.
Summers, Brandi T. 2021. “Aesthetic Activism and the Quest for Authenticity in a Time of Crisis.” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 6(3), June 14.
Summers, Brandi Thompson. 2021. “Race, Authenticity, and the Gentrified Aesthetics of Belonging.” Pp. 115-139. In C. Lindner and G. Sandoval, eds. Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City, Amsterdam University Press.
Summers, Brandi Thompson. 2021. “Reclaiming the Chocolate City: Soundscapes of Gentrification and Resistance in Washington, DC,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39(1): 30-46.
Summers, Brandi Thompson and Kathryn Howell. 2019. “Fear and Loathing (of Others): Race, Class, and Contestation of Space in Washington, D.C.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43(6): 1085-1105.
Summers, Brandi. 2017. “Race as Aesthetic: The Politics of Vision, Visibility, and Visuality in Vogue Italia’s ‘A Black Issue.’” QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking 4(3): 81-108.
Summers, Brandi. 2019. “‘Housing is a Natural Right, Not a Privilege’: Anti-Gentrification Activism in a Chocolate City.” The Funambulist 22, March 4:12-14.
Summers, Brandi Thompson. 2019. “‘Haute (Ghetto) Mess’: Post-Racial Aesthetics and the Seduction of Blackness in High Fashion.” Pp. 245-263. In H. Gray, S. Banet-Weiser, and R. Mukherjee, eds. Racism Post-Race: Culture, Critique, and the Color Line. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.