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 26
... forces of capi- tal , or to those so efficient in 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 ...
... forces of capi- tal , or to those so efficient in 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 ...
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... force ( as Marx recognized ) . Tushnet ( 1984 , 1384 ) would counter that such an argument fails because of the indeterminacy of rights : " To say that rights are particu- larly useful is to say that they do something ; yet to say that ...
... force ( as Marx recognized ) . Tushnet ( 1984 , 1384 ) would counter that such an argument fails because of the indeterminacy of rights : " To say that rights are particu- larly useful is to say that they do something ; yet to say that ...
Page 28
... force - physical , if partial - of law . What would happen if , in a few years and in the continued absence of enu- merated rights to housing and livelihood , American society no longer produced homelessness quite so efficiently — that ...
... force - physical , if partial - of law . What would happen if , in a few years and in the continued absence of enu- merated rights to housing and livelihood , American society no longer produced homelessness quite so efficiently — that ...
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... forces. But rights talk is more than a tool; if successful (and thus inscribed in law and policy), it pro- vides institutional support for produced differentiated space to be main- tained against the forces of abstraction that seek to ...
... forces. But rights talk is more than a tool; if successful (and thus inscribed in law and policy), it pro- vides institutional support for produced differentiated space to be main- tained against the forces of abstraction that seek to ...
Page 30
... forces a broadening of theories of in- justice : it illustrates the ways that systems and structures of inequality become entrenched and reproduced in the actually existing world , and thus necessarily turns attention to questions ...
... forces a broadening of theories of in- justice : it illustrates the ways that systems and structures of inequality become entrenched and reproduced in the actually existing world , and thus necessarily turns attention to questions ...
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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