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 23
... context and counter- poses to it a sphere of social life stripped of any content . ( Tushnet 1984 , 1392-1393 ) And equally important , " the predominance of negative rights creates an ideological barrier to the extension of positive ...
... context and counter- poses to it a sphere of social life stripped of any content . ( Tushnet 1984 , 1392-1393 ) And equally important , " the predominance of negative rights creates an ideological barrier to the extension of positive ...
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... context of a reordered political , economic , and social life . In an argument against rights , targeted at a popular audience and anticipating much of the transformed discourse about class and eco- nomic power that crystallized in the ...
... context of a reordered political , economic , and social life . In an argument against rights , targeted at a popular audience and anticipating much of the transformed discourse about class and eco- nomic power that crystallized in the ...
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... 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 surrounding them can seemingly ...
... 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 surrounding them can seemingly ...
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... context that “ no one is free to per- form an action unless there is somewhere he is free to perform it . ” No matter how appalling it might be to argue and struggle in favor of the right to sleep on the streets or urinate in an alley ...
... context that “ no one is free to per- form an action unless there is somewhere he is free to perform it . ” No matter how appalling it might be to argue and struggle in favor of the right to sleep on the streets or urinate in an alley ...
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... contexts demands struggle toward the transformation of those geo- graphical contexts. Smith thus provides a sophisticated account of what 30 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... contexts demands struggle toward the transformation of those geo- graphical contexts. Smith thus provides a sophisticated account of what 30 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
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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