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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Page 21
... discourse about rights was central to those particular “returns to Hyde Park”; then such argu- ments, such discourses, have in more recent years fallen out of favor among much of the academic left and to some degree urban social ...
... discourse about rights was central to those particular “returns to Hyde Park”; then such argu- ments, such discourses, have in more recent years fallen out of favor among much of the academic left and to some degree urban social ...
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... discourse ( Lyotard 1985 ) is that , while the latter sees rights ' indeterminacy as their Achilles ' heel , more Marxian ( and hence more modernist ) approaches are concerned with the degree to which rights , despite whatever degree of ...
... discourse ( Lyotard 1985 ) is that , while the latter sees rights ' indeterminacy as their Achilles ' heel , more Marxian ( and hence more modernist ) approaches are concerned with the degree to which rights , despite whatever degree of ...
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... discourse about them often claims , but rather exist only as products of particular political and social moments . As these moments change , so too do the content of rights . Second , rights suffer from indeterminacy . That is , “ the ...
... discourse about them often claims , but rather exist only as products of particular political and social moments . As these moments change , so too do the content of rights . Second , rights suffer from indeterminacy . That is , “ the ...
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... discourse about class and eco- nomic power that crystallized in the anti - World Trade Organization ( WTO ) protests in Seattle at the end of 1999 , Richard Rorty ( 1996 , 15 ) asserts that the most serious problems facing the United ...
... discourse about class and eco- nomic power that crystallized in the anti - World Trade Organization ( WTO ) protests in Seattle at the end of 1999 , Richard Rorty ( 1996 , 15 ) asserts that the most serious problems facing the United ...
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... discourse helps set the context within which social practices occur and are given meaning . This power lies in the ability of words organized as discourse to instruct . Take the example of legal discourse . Laws and the discourse ...
... discourse helps set the context within which social practices occur and are given meaning . This power lies in the ability of words organized as discourse to instruct . Take the example of legal discourse . Laws and the discourse ...
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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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space Don Mitchell Limited preview - 2003 |
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space Don Mitchell No preview available - 2003 |
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