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 22
... organizing principle of social struggle . After all , when rights conflict ( as they inevitably do ) “ force decides " ( Marx 1987 [ 1867 ] , 225 ) . But , as David Harvey ( 1996 , 345 ) correctly notes in re- gard to this passage ...
... organizing principle of social struggle . After all , when rights conflict ( as they inevitably do ) “ force decides " ( Marx 1987 [ 1867 ] , 225 ) . But , as David Harvey ( 1996 , 345 ) correctly notes in re- gard to this passage ...
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... organizing authoritarian populism ( and political quiescence [ Singer 1999 ] ) through the state , is shortsighted in the extreme . “ Rights talk ” is one means by which the struggle to “ cap- ture " the state by progressives can be ...
... organizing authoritarian populism ( and political quiescence [ Singer 1999 ] ) through the state , is shortsighted in the extreme . “ Rights talk ” is one means by which the struggle to “ cap- ture " the state by progressives can be ...
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... organize and constrain , it is hard to see how Rorty's call for compassion and moral persuasion will have any pur- chase against anti - homeless laws that take as their basis the twin “ commonsense ” notions that property rights must be ...
... organize and constrain , it is hard to see how Rorty's call for compassion and moral persuasion will have any pur- chase against anti - homeless laws that take as their basis the twin “ commonsense ” notions that property rights must be ...
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... organizing and action. And yet these argu- ments are limited to the degree that they assume that the construction of either singular or multiple public spheres is an issue of planning, and that such planning is—or could be—sufficient to ...
... organizing and action. And yet these argu- ments are limited to the degree that they assume that the construction of either singular or multiple public spheres is an issue of planning, and that such planning is—or could be—sufficient to ...
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... organizing in these communities . Harvey ( 2000 ) develops this argument in specific reference to the important promissory power of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights . 23. As Daniel Singer ( 1999 ) has made clear ...
... organizing in these communities . Harvey ( 2000 ) develops this argument in specific reference to the important promissory power of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights . 23. As Daniel Singer ( 1999 ) has made clear ...
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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