An Ethnography of the Goodman Building: The Longest Rent Strike

ISBN-13: 9783030122874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 374 str.

Niccolo Caldararo

Spis treści

Section I: The National Context for the Goodman Buildilng

Chapter 1: The Housing Crisis in America and the Policies that Created it and Promote it. 

Section II: Setting the Scene of the Goodman Building 

Chapter 2: Preface to the Goodman Building Ethnography 

Chapter 3: The Background and Setting

Chapter 4. Redevelopment in the Western Addition: Defining Non- White  Lifestyles as Slums

Section III: The Goodman Building in Transition: From Single Room Occupancy for Temporary Workers to Artist Hotel to Community Action Group

Chapter 5: Resistance:  WAPAC; J-Town Collective, Nihonmachi Little Friends; The Goodman Group; and Coalitions with Architectural Preservationists.  

Chapter 6: A Broader Field: BART, TOOR and the I-Hotel

Chapter 7: Beat Rebels with a Cause, Hippies & Community

Chapter 8: The Monday Night Meeting.  

Chapter 9: Living in an Art Community. 

Section IV:  Communities of Change and Occupation

Chapter 10: Learning From Others and Spreading the Word

Chapter 11: Democracy At Home

Chapter 12: Media Darlings, Art Scene and Money

Chapter 13: Repression, Reaction and Retrenchment

Chapter 14: The Strike Ends, and A New Goodman Building

Section V: A New Start in a Changing City

Chapter 15: Assessment: New Goodman Building in the Era of Go-go Capitalism.  

Chapter 16: Conversations at G2: The New Goodman Building Interviews with Tenants at the 18^th Street Complex.  

O autorze

Niccolo Caldararo is Lecturer in Anthropology at San Francisco State University, USA. In addition to academic work on medical anthropology, economic anthropology, and other fields, he is an active consultant in artifact conservation and analysis.

Blurb

Through in-depth analysis and narrative investigation of an actual building occupation, Niccolo Caldararo seeks to not only offer an historical account of the Goodman Building in San Francisco, but also focus on the active resistance tactics of its residents from the 1960s to the 1980s. Taking as its focal point the building itself, the volume weaves in and out of every life involved and the struggles that surround it—San Francisco’s urban renewal, ethnic clearing, gentrification, and municipal governance at a time of booming urban growth. Caldararo, a tenant at the center of its strikes and activities, provides a unique perspective that counteracts current trends in ethnographies of urban movements by grounding its analysis in physical and tangible space.