Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities

ISBN-13: 9781108478021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 404 str.

Santa Cruz) Eleonora Pasotti (University of California

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… the book is an ambitious undertaking. It demonstrates the vast variations in economic, political, and legal institutions across cities in both the Global South and North and how these conditions shape protest strategies and outcomes … can be a useful guide for broadening the comparative lens for small-N studies on urban protests in globalizing cities.' Werner Eichhorst, American Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

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.