Editing NIMBY (section)

==Variations==
''NIMBY'' and its derivative terms ''nimbyism'', ''nimbys'', and ''nimbyists'', refer implicitly to debates of development generally or to a specific case. As such, their use is inherently contentious. The term is usually applied to opponents of a development, implying that they have narrow, selfish, or myopic views. Its use is often [[pejorative]].<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1968870.ece You can't park here: it's my retreat, says ‘Nimby’ Clooney] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925025232/https://www.thetimes.com/ |date=25 September 2024 }} (''[[The Times]]'')</ref>

===Not in my neighborhood===
{{See also|Redlining}}
The term ''Not in my neighborhood'', or ''NIMN'', is also frequently used.<ref>{{cite magazine | first = Jon | last = Hull
 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966534,00.html
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 | magazine = Time | publisher = Time Inc | title = Not In My Neighborhood
 | date = 25 January 1988 | access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref> "NIMN" additionally refers to legislative actions or private agreements made with the sole purpose of maintaining racial identity within a particular neighborhood or residential area by forcefully keeping members of other races from moving into the area.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Scharper|first1=Diane|title=Ex-Sun author traces bigotry's role in shaping Baltimore|journal=The Baltimore Sun|date=21 March 2010|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-03-21/entertainment/bal-ae.bk.neighborhood21mar21_1_blacks-and-jews-rouse-white-woman|access-date=13 August 2015|archive-date=6 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806122319/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-03-21/entertainment/bal-ae.bk.neighborhood21mar21_1_blacks-and-jews-rouse-white-woman|url-status=dead}}</ref> In that regard, "Not in My Neighborhood," by author and journalist Antero Pietila, describes the toll NIMN politics had on housing conditions in Baltimore throughout the 20th century and the systemic, racially based citywide separation it caused.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pietila|first1=Antero|title=Not in my neighborhood : how bigotry shaped a great American city|date=2010|publisher=Ivan R. Dee|location=Chicago|isbn=978-1566638432|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/notinmyneighborh0000piet}}</ref>

===BANANA and CAVE {{anchor|BANANA}}{{anchor|NIABY}}{{anchor|CAVE}}===
{{About|the attitude to development|prehistoric humans|Caveman}}
''BANANA'' is an acronym for "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything" (or "anyone").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/23/opinion/l-absolute-banana-756593.html|title=Absolute Banana|date=23 December 1993|work=The New York Times|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=9 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909004948/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/23/opinion/l-absolute-banana-756593.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planetizen.com/node/152|title=From NIMBYs To DUDEs: The Wacky World Of Plannerese|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919163231/http://www.planetizen.com/node/152|url-status=live}}</ref> The term is most often used to criticize the ongoing opposition of certain [[advocacy groups]] to [[land development]].<ref>[http://www.wordspy.com/words/banana.asp BANANA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915023045/http://www.wordspy.com/words/banana.asp |date=15 September 2010 }} at Wordspy</ref> The term is commonly used within the context of [[Land use planning|planning]] in the United Kingdom. [[Sunderland City Council]] lists the term in their online dictionary of jargon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/apps/gobbledygook/Define.asp?ItemId=126|title=Sunderland City Council|access-date=15 September 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508043826/http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/apps/gobbledygook/Define.asp?ItemId=126|archive-date=8 May 2008}}</ref>

In the United States, the related phenomenon '''CAVE people''' or "CAVE dwellers" serves as an acronym for "citizens against virtually everything."<ref name="Barrett2006">{{cite book|author=Grant Barrett|title=The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hc7x96jE5EcC&pg=PA76|year=2006|publisher=OUP US|isbn=978-0195304473|pages=76–77|access-date=9 September 2019|archive-date=25 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925021149/https://books.google.com/books?id=hc7x96jE5EcC&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RossPerry1999">{{cite book|author1=Joel E. Ross|author2=Susan Perry|title=Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings|url=https://archive.org/details/totalqualitymana0000ross|url-access=registration|edition=Third|year=1999|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1574442663|page=[https://archive.org/details/totalqualitymana0000ross/page/65 65]}}</ref> It is a [[pejorative]] term for citizens who regularly oppose any changes in their community, organization or workplace.<ref name="Barrett2006"/><ref name="RossPerry1999"/>{{rp|65}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/1/escape-the-cave|title=A 5-step plan to encourage your team to make changes on your project &#124; Opensource.com|website=opensource.com|access-date=2 December 2023|archive-date=6 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206140010/https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/1/escape-the-cave|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How to Deal With 'CAVE People' — Citizens Against Virtually Everything - Rotman School of Management |url=https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Connect/Rotman-MAG/IdeaExchange/Spring2019-Methot |website=www.rotman.utoronto.ca |access-date=2 December 2023 |archive-date=16 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216081734/https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Connect/Rotman-MAG/IdeaExchange/Spring2019-Methot |url-status=live }}</ref> A reference to the term "CAVE dwellers" can be found in the September 30, 1990, edition of the ''Orlando Sentinel''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Turchin |first1=Peter |title=CAVE Dwellers |url=https://blog.harmonycr.com/cave/ |website=Harmony |publisher=Orlando Sentinel |access-date=20 September 2006 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507225537/https://blog.harmonycr.com/cave/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The term apparently existed before the publication of the article.

CAVE/BANANA people are characterized by implacable opposition to change in any form, regardless of what other local residents and stakeholders feel. This attitude is manifested in opposition to changes in [[public policy]] as varied as [[Tax levy|tax levies]], [[Sewage treatment|sewer rates]], [[public transport]]ation routes, [[parking]] regulations and [[municipal]] mergers or [[annexation]]s.  CAVE/BANANA people often express their views publicly by attending [[Local government|community meetings]],<ref name="Beyle1998">{{cite book|author=Thad L. Beyle|title=State Government: CQ's Guide to Current Issues and Activities 1998–99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TGi_m_3fbqgC|year=1998|publisher=Congressional Quarterly, Inc.|isbn=978-1-56802-098-3|page=129|access-date=2 December 2023|archive-date=25 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925021201/https://books.google.com/books?id=TGi_m_3fbqgC|url-status=live}}</ref> writing letters to the local newspaper, or calling in to [[talk radio]] shows, similar to NIMBYs.

The terms "CAVE people" and "BANANAs" were used in a 2022 op-ed to describe the populace of [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford]], Connecticut.<ref>{{cite news |last=Augustyn |first=Arthur |title=Stamford is a cultural hellhole |url=https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Stamford-is-a-cultural-hellhole-17491946.php |newspaper=Stamford Advocate |date=7 October 2022 |publisher=Hearst |access-date=7 October 2022 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007131713/https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Stamford-is-a-cultural-hellhole-17491946.php |url-status=live }}</ref> The op-ed was written by a former municipal employee and described CAVE people as seeing "no issue [[doublethink|simultaneously arguing conflicting points]] so long as nothing changes."

Similar is "NIABY" or "not in anyone's backyard".

===PIBBY===
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''PIBBY'' is an acronym for "place in blacks' back yard." This principle indicates that the people with perceived social, racial, and economic privileges object to a development in their own back yards, and if the objectionable item must be built, then it should be built so that its perceived harms disproportionately affect poor, socially disadvantaged people. Economically disadvantaged people might not be willing or able to hire a lawyer to appeal the right way, or might have more immediate troubles than a new nearby construction project. The [[environmental justice]] movement has pointed out nimbyism leads to [[environmental racism]]. [[Robert D. Bullard]], Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, has argued that official responses to NIMBY phenomena have led to the PIBBY principle.<ref>Stewart, James B. (5 April 2002) [https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02689929 Book Reviews: "Dumping in dixie: Race, class, and environmental quality"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925021202/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1007/BF02689929 |date=25 September 2024 }} ''The Review of Black Political Economy'' Volume 20, Number 2, 105–107, {{doi|10.1007/BF02689929}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wh9qiXueaL0C|publisher=Westview Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0813344270|language=en|first=Robert D.|last=Bullard|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic ... edited by Pedro Noguera, Julio Cammarota, Shawn Ginwright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2rlphlkdLMC&q=PIBBY+black+-libby+-piggy&pg=PT119|isbn=978-1135927790|last1=Noguera|first1=Pedro|last2=Cammarota|first2=Julio|last3=Ginwright|first3=Shawn|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|access-date=27 October 2020|archive-date=25 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925021056/https://books.google.com/books?id=M2rlphlkdLMC&q=PIBBY+black+-libby+-piggy&pg=PT119#v=snippet&q=PIBBY%20black%20-libby%20-piggy&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Black environmentalists go after PIBBY – 'put it in blacks' backyards'|url=http://www.athensnews.com/news/local/black-environmentalists-go-after-pibby---put-it-in/article_8d5a097f-b8b8-53c1-9845-7aca7421a816.html|website=AthensNews|date=4 September 2001|access-date=22 November 2015|archive-date=14 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514022004/http://www.athensnews.com/news/local/black-environmentalists-go-after-pibby---put-it-in/article_8d5a097f-b8b8-53c1-9845-7aca7421a816.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Integrating Environment and Economy: Strategies for Local and RegionalGovernment edited by Andrew Gouldson, Peter Roberts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IyyEAgAAQBAJ&q=PIBBY+black+-libby+-piggy&pg=PA48|isbn=978-1134703685|last1=Gouldson|first1=Andrew|last2=Roberts|first2=Peter|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|access-date=27 October 2020|archive-date=25 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925021057/https://books.google.com/books?id=IyyEAgAAQBAJ&q=PIBBY+black+-libby+-piggy&pg=PA48#v=snippet&q=PIBBY%20black%20-libby%20-piggy&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=PIBBY|url=http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PIBBY|website=The Free Dictionary|access-date=22 November 2015|archive-date=11 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611225303/http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PIBBY|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title = Book Reviews: American Politics The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. By Jay P. Childers. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press|issue = 1|pages = 237–238|url = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9243055|journal = Perspectives on Politics|volume = 12|doi = 10.1017/S1537592714000358|last1 = Andolina|first1 = Molly W.|date = March 2014|s2cid = 145733215|access-date = 22 November 2015|archive-date = 22 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151122232304/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9243055|url-status = live|url-access = subscription}}</ref>

===Reverse NIMBY===
Reverse NIMBY is a phenomenon opposite to the widely known concept of NIMBY. Instead of arguing that it is troublesome that a hazardous facility is located in my backyard, proponents and people who exploit the concept of reverse NIMBY would say that "If it happens in my backyard, it matters more because, well, it's my backyard."<ref name="Cillizza-2013">{{Cite news|last=Cillizza|first=Chris|date=May 21, 2013|title=Jim Inhofe and the "reverse NIMBY" phenomenon|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/05/21/jim-inhofe-and-the-reverse-nimby-phenomenon/|access-date=December 6, 2021|archive-date=22 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322221628/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/05/21/jim-inhofe-and-the-reverse-nimby-phenomenon/|url-status=live}}</ref> It appears within the U.S. Congress where politicians actively use the mentality after major catastrophic events to garner recovery funds from the federal government.<ref name="Cillizza-2013" /> This is a viable strategy for members of Congress to garner benefits for their constituents because it is difficult for the federal government to understand needs at the local level.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Woolcock|first=Nicola|title=The reverse Nimby effect|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/the-reverse-nimby-effect-5lnd3xhcdbj|access-date=2021-12-07|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=7 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207141222/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-reverse-nimby-effect-5lnd3xhcdbj|url-status=live}}</ref>