Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities

ISBN-13: 9781108745444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 404 str.

Santa Cruz) Eleonora Pasotti (University of California

Opis

This study of twenty-nine protest cases in ten global cities shows how residents facing displacement - in the forms of urban redevelopment and gentrification - mobilize their neighborhoods and change policies. Heretofore understudied, creative residents emerge as the key to mobilization, as they craft hip and transformative protest experiences.

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.