Resisting Redevelopment

Protest in Aspiring Global Cities

AvEleonora Pasotti

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The politics of urban development is one of the most enduring, central themes of urban politics. In Resisting Redevelopment, Eleonora Pasotti explores the forces that enable residents of 'aspiring global cities,' or economically competitive cities, to mobilize against gentrification and other forms of displacement, as well as what makes mobilizations successful. Scholars and activists alike will benefit from this one-of-a-kind comparative study. Impressive in its scope, this book examines twenty-nine protest campaigns over a decade in ten major cities across five continents, from Santiago to Seoul to Los Angeles. Pasotti sheds light on an approach that is both understudied and remarkably effective - the practice of successful organizers deploying 'experiential tools,' or events, social archives, neighborhood tours, and performances designed to attract participants and transform the protest site into the place to be. With this book, Pasotti promises to provide a creative and novel contribution to the literature of contentious politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-19
Mått:157 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Antal sidor:406
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108478021

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Eleonora Pasotti is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Branding in Cities, (Cambridge, 2009).

Recensioner i media

'Nearly forty years ago, Manual Castells argued that the central arena of class conflict had moved from the factory floor to urban neighborhoods. Since then, the frequency and intensity of urban development struggles has only increased. And yet, the insights of urbanists and social movement scholars have rarely been integrated and brought to bear on the study of development struggles. Pasotti's groundbreaking book goes a long way toward remedying this problem. Hers is not simply a theoretical contribution, but arguably the best comparative study of urban development struggles conducted to date.' Doug McAdam, Stanford University

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Setting the Comparison: 1. Introduction; 2. Explaining protest against urban redevelopment; 3. Research design and overview of results; 4. Aspiring global cities; Part II. Explaining Mobilization: 5. Experiential tools and networks; 6. Squatting, experiential tools, and protest legacies; 7. Judicial resistance, experiential tools, and protest legacies; 8. Protest with high union support: Buenos Aires; Part III. Explaining Impact: 9. Council allies and partisan alignments; 10. Shaping redevelopment in public housing estates; 11. Militancy with a twist: fighting art to deter displacement in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; 12. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Qualitative comparative analysis; Appendix 2. Partisan alignments; Bibliography; Index.