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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... activists and advocates turned elsewhere , when moral and compassionate arguments were no longer quite so prevalent ? Indeed , by what mechanisms can moral arguments protect a minority against a malicious ( or simply selfish ) majority ...
... activists and advocates turned elsewhere , when moral and compassionate arguments were no longer quite so prevalent ? Indeed , by what mechanisms can moral arguments protect a minority against a malicious ( or simply selfish ) majority ...
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... activists seeking to retain the right to protest in (or just to use) spaces subject to the im- perial designs of corporate capital and its allies in planning and land- use departments. The production of public space—the means through ...
... activists seeking to retain the right to protest in (or just to use) spaces subject to the im- perial designs of corporate capital and its allies in planning and land- use departments. The production of public space—the means through ...
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... activists and social groups have struggled to make it be. NOTES 1. The full sentence reads: “The rough has not quite found his groove and settled down into his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where ...
... activists and social groups have struggled to make it be. NOTES 1. The full sentence reads: “The rough has not quite found his groove and settled down into his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where ...
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... activism . Merrifield's ( 1995 ) examination of Bunge's geographical expeditions does a superb job of both recovering the history of the expedition ( including its flaws ) and charting this shift in activist geography . 14. Lyotard's ...
... activism . Merrifield's ( 1995 ) examination of Bunge's geographical expeditions does a superb job of both recovering the history of the expedition ( including its flaws ) and charting this shift in activist geography . 14. Lyotard's ...
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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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