Resisting redevelopment : protest in aspiring global cities
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Resisting redevelopment : protest in aspiring global cities
(Cambridge studies in contentious politics)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-382) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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