Eleonora Pasotti

Resisting Redevelopment

Protest in Aspiring Global Cities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478021
• ISBN-10: 1108478026
• Artikelnr.: 58381151

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.