Meet East Boston, Massachusetts

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines East Boston, Massachusetts (“Eastie”) as a case study of how urban planning and environmental racism produce debility—the systematic endangerment of bodyminds—among predominantly Latinx residents. The authors write as two disabled women of color trained in bioethics, grounding scholarship in lived experience to ask a simple, urgent question: What happens to bodyminds when a neighborhood is planned without its people at the center? The authors argue that planning decisions around brownfields, highways, tunnels, and Logan Airport’s air and noise pollution enact what Puar terms “slow death” and limit civic participation. The chapter defines key concepts—bioethics, urban planning/design, bodymind, debility—while situating Eastie’s colonial past, demographic shifts, and current redevelopment under PLAN: East Boston. Drawing on public-health evidence, the authors trace links between environmental exposures and respiratory, neurodevelopmental, cardiovascular, reproductive, sleep, and mental-health harms. It also foregrounds the care practices of disabled and debilitated communities as vital sources of knowledge that resist eugenic world-building and offer models for co-capacitation. The chapter contends that environmental bioethics must move beyond medicalized “fixes” toward place-based, justice-centered planning that expands collective capacities. East Boston’s story reveals the ethical stakes of urban development and the necessity of centering disabled cultures in imagining livable futures.
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Authors Joanne C. Suarez, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780197807262.003.0016
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