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 19
... violence (Blomley 1998, 2000a; 2004; Rose 1994). More accurately, property rights are necessarily exclusive: the possession of a property right allows its pos- sessor to exclude unwanted people from access (Blomley 2000b, 651 ...
... violence (Blomley 1998, 2000a; 2004; Rose 1994). More accurately, property rights are necessarily exclusive: the possession of a property right allows its pos- sessor to exclude unwanted people from access (Blomley 2000b, 651 ...
Page 20
... Violence can be explicitly deployed or (more usually) implied. But such violence has state sanction and is thus legitimate.” This issue is particularly important in a world where some members of society are not covered by any property ...
... Violence can be explicitly deployed or (more usually) implied. But such violence has state sanction and is thus legitimate.” This issue is particularly important in a world where some members of society are not covered by any property ...
Page 22
... violence — violence that is at times the " property " of the state and at other times , and crucially , " extra - legal " ( Harvey 1996 , 346 , following Derrida 1992 , 35 ) .15 To put that another way , rights are at once a means of ...
... violence — violence that is at times the " property " of the state and at other times , and crucially , " extra - legal " ( Harvey 1996 , 346 , following Derrida 1992 , 35 ) .15 To put that another way , rights are at once a means of ...
Page 27
... violence or other penalties — that permits these outcomes . At most , words can instruct and perhaps provide the discursive justification for the restraint or use of police power ; they can help define other institutions of power that ...
... violence or other penalties — that permits these outcomes . At most , words can instruct and perhaps provide the discursive justification for the restraint or use of police power ; they can help define other institutions of power that ...
Page 35
... violent power of the state, laws about property, and the current jurisprudence on rights all have a role to play in stymie- ing, channeling, or promoting the “taking” and “making” of public space and the claim to representation. The ...
... violent power of the state, laws about property, and the current jurisprudence on rights all have a role to play in stymie- ing, channeling, or promoting the “taking” and “making” of public space and the claim to representation. The ...
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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