The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public SpaceGuilford Press, 2012 M02 21 - 270 pages Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States. Don Mitchell explores how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city. A series of linked cases provides in-depth analyses of early twentieth-century labor demonstrations, the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley, contemporary anti-abortion protests, and efforts to remove homeless people from urban streets. |
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... Blomley, who has read and supportively critiqued almost everything I have writ- ten on public space and on law, and who in addition read through and provided innumerable helpful comments on the whole book manuscript. Matt Hannah, who ...
... Blomley, who has read and supportively critiqued almost everything I have writ- ten on public space and on law, and who in addition read through and provided innumerable helpful comments on the whole book manuscript. Matt Hannah, who ...
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... (Blomley 1998, 2000a; 2004; Rose 1994). More accurately, property rights are necessarily exclusive: the possession of a property right allows its pos- sessor to exclude unwanted people from access (Blomley 2000b, 651; MacPherson 1978) ...
... (Blomley 1998, 2000a; 2004; Rose 1994). More accurately, property rights are necessarily exclusive: the possession of a property right allows its pos- sessor to exclude unwanted people from access (Blomley 2000b, 651; MacPherson 1978) ...
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... Blomley (2000a, 88) notes, frequently involves invoking the power of the state: “Police can be called to physically remove a trespasser; injunc- tions prepared, criminal sanctions sought. As such, expulsion is a vio- lent act. Violence ...
... Blomley (2000a, 88) notes, frequently involves invoking the power of the state: “Police can be called to physically remove a trespasser; injunc- tions prepared, criminal sanctions sought. As such, expulsion is a vio- lent act. Violence ...
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... (Blomley 1994b).22 Rights establish an important ideal against which the behavior of the state, capital, and other powerful actors must be measured—and held accountable. They provide an institutionalized framework, no matter how ...
... (Blomley 1994b).22 Rights establish an important ideal against which the behavior of the state, capital, and other powerful actors must be measured—and held accountable. They provide an institutionalized framework, no matter how ...
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... Blomley (1994a, 46) concludes, “law is, as it were, produced ... in spaces; those spaces in turn are partly constituted by le- gal norms.” The struggle for rights—for example, the right to sleep un- molested in a city park if you are ...
... Blomley (1994a, 46) concludes, “law is, as it were, produced ... in spaces; those spaces in turn are partly constituted by le- gal norms.” The struggle for rights—for example, the right to sleep un- molested in a city park if you are ...
Contents
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Locational Conflict and the Right to the City | 81 |
Peoples Park the Public and the Right to the City | 118 |
AntiHomeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights | 161 |
AntiHomeless Campaigns Public Space Zoning and the Problem of Necessity | 195 |
Toward a Just City | 227 |
Now What Has Changed? | 238 |
References | 247 |
Index | 271 |
About the Author | 278 |
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