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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... claim that " [ t ] hings on the whole are terrible " since the United States ( or , more accurately , capital coordinated through the po- litical and military might of the United States ) has created " one of the great empires in world ...
... claim that " [ t ] hings on the whole are terrible " since the United States ( or , more accurately , capital coordinated through the po- litical and military might of the United States ) has created " one of the great empires in world ...
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... claim raises the obvious question ; Just how do " rights ” and “ rights talk ” do what I claim they do ? For , while it is commonplace , it is also inaccurate , to assert that “ discourse ” produces things ( like the social justice ...
... claim raises the obvious question ; Just how do " rights ” and “ rights talk ” do what I claim they do ? For , while it is commonplace , it is also inaccurate , to assert that “ discourse ” produces things ( like the social justice ...
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... claim of right , no matter how contested , establishes a framework within which power oper- ates . It matters less ... claims of right cannot be determined within the discourse of rights is absolutely correct . The adjudication of rights ...
... claim of right , no matter how contested , establishes a framework within which power oper- ates . It matters less ... claims of right cannot be determined within the discourse of rights is absolutely correct . The adjudication of rights ...
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... claims to common sense . The critique of human geography , in the eyes of these “ little Arnolds , ” is seen as a call for or an excuse for disorder , and thus dismissible . Linking social cri- tique to social justice makes the ...
... claims to common sense . The critique of human geography , in the eyes of these “ little Arnolds , ” is seen as a call for or an excuse for disorder , and thus dismissible . Linking social cri- tique to social justice makes the ...
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... claiming to “measure its justice” (Young 1990, 5). To do so, Young (1990, 7 passim) argues, contemporary theories of ... claims can and should be made. For example, she suggests that “all reasonable per- sons share” the assumption that ...
... claiming to “measure its justice” (Young 1990, 5). To do so, Young (1990, 7 passim) argues, contemporary theories of ... claims can and should be made. For example, she suggests that “all reasonable per- sons share” the assumption that ...
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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