Urban unrest, social resentment and justice
meute, mouvement social, injustice, inégalité sociale, social inequality, police, délinquance, économie, violence urbaine, United Kingdom, Royaume-Uni
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The recent events in several cities across the UK, and more widely in Europe, have raised fundamental questions about the legitimacy of public programs, the crisis-prone nature of economies and ongoing resentment and anger at social inequality and injustice. Despite frequent political and media pronouncements of organised criminality, grounded examinations of riots in the UK and elsewhere highlight how social inequality, policing practices, the embedding of consumption orientations and feelings of injustice have produced social danger and violence in excluded localities. Nuanced, empirically founded and critical accounts are needed of these events. This conference, organised by CURB, sought to contextualise urban unrest within broader, structural concerns around economic decline, social injustice and criminal cultures. The cohesion of many, apparently ‘broken’ communities, and their capacity to regain control and promote safety belie on-going anger and resentment at corporate excess, media misconduct and political illegitimacy. The meeting explored these issues in detail and provided a space to debate the broader causes and consequences of these events.</div>
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<b>Available podcasts:</b></div>
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Tony Jefferson - The riots 2011: Another moral panic or... what?</div>
Dan Briggs - What we did when it happened: A timeline analysis of the social disorder in London</div>
Sheldon Thomas - The riots from a 'road' perspective</div>
Suzella Palmer - 'Dutty Babylon': Policing black communities and the politics of resistance</div>
Steven Hirschler - Riots in retrospective: Lessons from 1958 and the Powell era</div>
David Hill - Social media and urban unrest</div>
Laura Naegler - The riots of those who should not dare to scream for revolution. Riot spectacle, ritual, and the construction of the apolitical adolescent middle-class rioter in Germany</div>
Simon Harding - Mindful violence: The role of the urban street gang in the riots in London</div>
Bob Jeffrey and Will Jackson - Pendleton: A political sociology</div>
Karen Evans - Who broke Britain? Power, austerity and social reaction</div>
Nicholas Pleace - Child poverty as 'riot training'? Contrasting perceptions of parents, frontline workers and child poverty experts in London</div>
Rowland Atkinson, Simon Parker and Oliver Smith - 'The atrocities will be repaid': Urban unrest and the whirlwind to be reaped from political revanchism</div>
John Lea and Simon Hallsworth - Riots, citizenship and the crisis of the neoliberal state</div>
Joe Sim - The fish rots from the capitalist head: Riots in the wasteland of the free</div>
Simon Winlow - Observations, themes and comments</div>
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Multiple authors
22-23 September 2011
http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/curb/events/2011/urban-unrest/
Social justice, inequality and cities
, équité sociale, justice sociale, social justice, politique urbaine, inégalité, inequality, mouvement social, Pulido Laura, Heynen Nik, Watkins Marilyn
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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Inequality is intensifying in American cities with profound consequences for people’s well being and for broader society. This panel aims to make sense of where urban inequalities emerge, how they are perpetuated, and why they still exist. The role of community activism around social justice in American cities is addressed, as is strategic engagement with existing public policies and ongoing efforts to transform them. </div>
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<b>Laura Pulido </b>is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity/Geography at the University of Southern California.</div>
<b>Nik Heynen </b>is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia.</div>
<b>Marilyn Watkins </b>is Policy Director at the Economic Opportunity Institute.</div>
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Laura Pulido,
Nik Heynen,
Marilyn Watkins
5 May 2011
http://www.nowurbanism.org/#Past
Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of ordinary people. Great cities-ordinary lives
, participation, démocratie participative, mouvement social, éducation, sociologie urbaine, urbanité, habitants, community, communauté, Dreier Peter, Rushing Wanda, Pattillo Mary, Nyden Philip
<div>The fifth panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up</div>
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Panel 5 : Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of ordinary people :<br />
Peter Dreier : The potential and limits of community organizing for addressing America's urban crisis<br />
Wanda Rushing - Re-imagining a divided Memphis<br />
Mary Pattillo - All these different schools : Listening to parents in the era of school choice<br />
Philip Nyden - Where is the public in public sociology? What place do ordinary people with ordinary lives have in creating knowledge?</div>
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<b>Peter Dreier </b>is E. P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and Department Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College.</div>
<b>Wanda Rushing </b>is Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis.</div>
<b>Mary Pattillo </b>is Harold Washington Professor in the Department of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University.</div>
<b>Philip Nyden </b>is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago.</div>
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See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Panel 1: The lives of urban residents in a global world: Europe, Shanghai and Los Angeles</a></div>
Panel 2: Cities: Place, space and everyday infrastructure</a></div>
Panel 3: The lives of urban residents in a global world: Berlin, South Africa, and Chicago</a></div>
Keynote address: What do we do when we do urban sociology? Sharon Zukin</a></div>
Panel 4: Cities: Novel readings of the city and the lives of ordinary people</a></div>
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Peter Dreier,
Wanda Rushing,
Mary Pattillo,
Philip Nyden
17 September 2011
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/podcasts.shtml
On the plaza: Post-Soviet urban ensembles
post-Soviet city, ville post-soviétique, espace public, square, place, plaza, mouvement social, protest, manifestation, aménagement urbain, Hatherley Owen
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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Among the many things that are anathema in contemporary urban planning, one of the most demonised is the large, ceremonial public square. The vast, proverbially windswept plazas built under 'really existing socialism' from the 1920s to 1980s are widely considered to be huge and useless spaces, designed to intimidate or at least impress, lacking the intimacy and bustle of the Italian-derived Piazza.<br />
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They are often considered a Soviet innovation, though their roots are in no way socialistic, but derive from Prussian and Tsarist absolutist planning, quasi-parade grounds usually connected to wide, multi-lane boulevards – the connection of the Palace Square to Nevsky Prospekt in St Petersburg is the prototype. Yet, if these places are only of use to those in power, why is it they have been used so often – and so often successfully – in protest? From Petrograd in 1917 to the Alexanderplatz protests of 1989, through the use of the Independence Square in Kiev in the 'Orange Revolution' to the Revolution centred on Cairo's partly Soviet-planned Tahrir Square, these spaces have become focuses for mass protest – have been useful against power, in other words.<br />
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In this paper we will explore this seemingly authoritarian form of urbanism. Though focusing on the architectural spaces of these squares, it will be argued that paradoxically, these centres of power are more conducive to revolt than the new, ostensibly democratic spaces.</div>
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<b>Owen Hatherley </b>is a British writer and journalist, and the author of such books as <i>Militant Modernism </i>(Zero Books: 2009) and <i>A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain </i>(Verso: 2010)</div>
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Owen Hatherley
8 November 2011
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1740/
From critical urban theory to the right to the city
, droit à la ville, mouvement social, Lefebvre Henri, Marcuse Peter
<div><b><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/from-critical-urban-theory/id390427099" target="_blank">Alternative link</a> </b>to the recordings on iTunes.</div>
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Peter Marcuse
6 October 2009
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13604810902982177
Designing the post-political city and the insurgent polis
, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, aménagement urbain, néolibéralisme, gouvernance, démocratie participative, mouvement social, participation, Swyngedouw Erik
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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Swyngedouw points to a climate of global consensus that has become pervasive over the past twenty years, effectively suppressing dissent and excluding most people from governance. He explains this consensus as limited to a select group (e.g., elite politicians, business leaders, NGOs, experts from a variety of fields) and perpetuated through "empty signifiers" like the sustainable/creative/world-class city. Swyngedouw argues that this consensus serves a "post-political" neoliberal order in which governments fail to address citizens' most basic needs in order to subsidize the financial sector and take on grandiose projects designed to attract global capital. He asserts that the flipside of management through limited consensus is rebellion on the part of the excluded, which he views as insurgent architecture and planning that claims a place in the order of things. Swyngedouw calls for open institutional channels for enacting dissent, fostering a democratic politics based on equal opportunity for all in shaping the decisions that affect our lives. He envisions the city as "insurgent polis" — a new agora where democratic politics can take place, where anyone can make a case for changing the existing framework.</div>
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<b>Erik Swyngedouw </b>is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester School of Environment and Development.</div>
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Alternative link</a> </b>to the recording.</div>
Scribd</a>.</div>
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Erik Swyngedouw
22 April 2011
http://www.thepolisblog.org/2011/06/eric-swyngedouw-on-designing-post.html
Do Londoners have a right to the city?
, droit à la ville, équité sociale, injustice, planification, London, Londres, économie, mouvement social, Edwards Michael, Catterall Bob, Gibbons Andrea, Kuklowsky Celine
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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London grassroot groups are certainly making it clear what they need, from housing and transport to jobs and the environment. Is there a basic demand that underlies these needs? Is the idea of rights to the city a focus for that demand? This meeting explores the idea that Right to the City (RTTC) is a good focus for these needs and demands. It is called by individuals from UCL's Bartlett School of Planning, UCL's Urban Lab, the London-based international journal CITY, and the Just Space Network of London community groups. The meeting is the start of a potential series triggered partly by the talks given last autumn in London by Peter Marcuse, veteran lawyer, planning educator and activist in New York. It takes advantage of the presence in London of 2 activists who have been involved with the US RTTC movement and of the discussion advanced and continuing in CITY by Peter Marcuse and his colleagues. This meeting will be a series of short talks on the London issues, a short talk on the USA movement and then time for a substantial structured debate and discussion.</div>
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<b>Michael Edwards </b>is a Senior Lecturer and Leverhulme Fellow in the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London.</div>
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<b>Bob Catterall </b>is Editor-in-Chief of City journal.</div>
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<b>Andrea Gibbons </b>is an assistant editor of City journal and a research student at the London School of Economics.</div>
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<b>Celine Kuklowsky </b>is an assistant editor of City journal and works in the Social Policy Department at the London School of Economics.</div>
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Michael Edwards,
Bob Catterall,
Andrea Gibbons,
Celine Kuklowsky
30 March 2010
http://justspace2010.wordpress.com/welcome-to-just-space/30-march-public-meeting/
Tuff city: Urban change and contested space in central Naples
espace public, renouvellement urbaine, patrimoine urbaine, sécurité, tourisme, immigration, mouvement social, centre historique, citoyenneté, conflit urbain, Naples, Dines Nick
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s historic center through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration, and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe’s most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.<br />
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<b>Nick Dines</b> lived and worked in Naples for seven years. He currently lives in Rome, where he holds teaching posts in migration studies at Roma Tre University and the sociology of Southern Italy at John Cabot University.</div>
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Nick Dines
Berghahn Books
February 2012
344
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The right to the city: Popular contention in contemporary Buenos Aires
, droit à la ville, mouvement social, démocratie participative, citoyenneté, Buenos Aires, Ippolito-O'Donnell Gabriela
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Based on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey data, The Right to the City contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of Buenos Aires. It also offers an excellent overview of the history of social mobilization in Argentina. Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell’s main assertion in this study is that through various channels of collective action and associational activities, as well as by voting, the urban popular sector is a fundamental actor in the pursuit of the expansion and consolidation of citizenship rights.<br /> <br /> Using both qualitative analysis and quantitative data, Ippolito-O’Donnell explores what factors—economic, politico-institutional, organizational, and subjective—account for the emergence in the 1980s, and collapse in the 1990s, of a wave of grassroots popular organizations in Villa Lugano, a poor neighborhood located in the south of Buenos Aires. She identifies factors crucial for explaining the organizational weakness and concomitant cyclical patterns of collective action by the urban poor, as well as the consequences for alleviating poverty and inequality in this newly democratized nation.<br /> <br /> <b>Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell</b> is professor in the School of Politics and Government at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Argentina.</div> </div>
Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell
University of Notre Dame Press
November 2011
320
Ouvrage
Urban political geographies: A global perspective
, politique de la ville, sciences politiques, géographie urbaine, néolibéralisme, économie, gouvernance, équité sociale, mouvement social, citoyenneté, représentations, Rossi Ugo, Vanolo Alberto
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> How can we think about the urban within a political and geographical framework? This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear understanding of the relationship between political, spatial and economic issues on the urban environment.<br /> <br /> Taking a truly global analysis, the book uses international comparative case studies from cities across the world including London, Beijing, Austin, and Vancouver. It draws on ideas and theories from human geography, politics, sociology, economics, and development.<br /> <br /> Engaging in style and thorough in its coverage of the key issues, the book is essential reading for students and scholars looking for a book that deals with contemporary urban debates from a political, economic and geographical perspective.</div> </div> <b>Ugo Rossi </b>is a Research Fellow at the Università di Cagliari.</div> <b>Alberto Vanolo </b>is a Researcher in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Turin.</div> </div>
Ugo Rossi Alberto Vanolo
SAGE
December 2011
232
Ouvrage
Race rebelle : luttes dans les quartiers populaires des années 1980 à nos jours
mouvement social, luttes, racisme, habitants, quartier populaire, banlieue populaire, mémoire, Chekkat Rafik, Delgado Hoch Emmanuel
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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"Le clivage politique racial, sans effacer les autres clivages, est devenu central, déterminant les stratégies des différents acteurs, bousculant les équilibres, provoquant des recompositions du champ politique, des convergences et de nouveaux conflits, qui ne seraient pas intelligibles sans donner sa place à la recrudescence des résistances indigènes" (S. Khiari, La contrerévolution coloniale en France).</div>
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C’est à cette recrudescence des luttes "indigènes" qu’est consacré le présent ouvrage, qui tente de brosser, à gros traits, une cartographie des luttes des habitants des quartiers populaires des années 1980 à nos jours. De la Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme, et ses critiques, aux expériences politiques dans la banlieue lyonnaise, des luttes contre l’islamophobie à la question de l’autonomie noire, en passant par les aléas de l’émergence d’une contre-culture rap, la séquence de luttes ouverte dans les années 1980 marque à coup sûr le surgissement de la question raciale.</div>
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Si on s’interroge encore en France sur la manière de combattre le racisme, les auteurs, en évoquant diverses expériences de racisme et de lutte contre ce dernier, s’interrogent sur ce que signifie la race, qu’ils lisent comme un critère de division et de distribution des populations. C’est à l’introduction de la problématique de la race, et à son articulation étroite à celle de la classe et du genre, qu’invite cet ouvrage. Les diverses contributions qui composent ce livre constituent tout à la fois un travail de mémoire et une solide analyse critique de cette part d’ombre de la "République".</div>
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Rafik Chekkat,
Emmanuel Delgado Hoch,
(dir.)
Syllepse
1er décembre 2011
160
Ouvrage
Time and the suburbs: The politics of built environments and the future of dissent
, périphéries, périurbain, banlieue, pavillonnaire, développement urbain, politique urbaine, mouvement social, Quinby Rohan
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By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way we live and do politics. Drawing on social theory from Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord to Antonio Negri, this book reconceptualizes the tasks facing activists and social movements. This is both a provocative essay and introduction to important social theory for anyone interested in cites and urban development.</div>
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<b>Rohan Quinby</b> is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has published essays on travel and urbanism and has a postgraduate degree in Public Policy from Massey University in New Zealand.</div>
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Rohan Quinby
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
November 2011
152
Ouvrage
Cities for people, not for profit: Critical urban theory and the right to the city
, droit à la ville, mouvement social, néolibéralisme, capitalisme, gentrification, renouvellement urbain, urbanisation, creative city, ville créative, social justice, justice sociale, logement, Brenner Neil, Marcuse Peter, Mayer Margit
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Routledge
October 2011
296
Ouvrage
Bird on fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city
Phoenix, changement climatique, développement durable, ville durable, politique urbaine, société urbaine, environnement, équité sociale, mouvement social, Ross Andrew
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights.<br /> <br /> In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places like Portland, Seattle, and New York that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all.<br /> <br /> Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing their responsibility to address climate change.</div> </div> <b>Andrew Ross </b>is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.</div> </div>
Andrew Ross
Oxford University Press USA
October 2011
312
Ouvrage
Learning the city: Knowledge and translocal assemblage
knowledge, connaissance, learning, apprentissage, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, mouvement social, aménagement urbain, logement, Mumbai, McFarlane Colin
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. <br /> <br /> - Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning<br /> - Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development<br /> - Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities<br /> - Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South</div> </div> <b>Colin McFarlane </b>is Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University.</div> </div>
Colin McFarlane
Wiley-Blackwell
August 2011
232
Ouvrage
Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature : Portraits of Cairo
, littérature, centre historique, espace public, fragmentation urbaine, mouvement social, mondialisation, mutation urbaine, Cairo, Le Caire, Naaman Mara
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Part ode, part academic treatise, this book traces the transformation of Cairo’s historic downtown from its spectacular beginning as a French inspired Belle Époque marvel to a site of contest and, more recently, to its role as a neo-bohemian public sphere. Using the work of several Egyptian novelists, this study explores the significance of this space to ideas of modernity, class consciousness, and the anti-colonial struggle. Drawing on urban studies scholarship, Arabic literary criticism, and cultural theory, this wide-ranging work argues that a re-examination of the historic city center in the face of globalization and the ongoing fragmentation of urban space is essential to understanding what it means to be Egyptian today.</div> </div> <b>Mara Naaman </b>is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Williams College.</div> </div>
Mara Naaman
Palgrave Macmillan
June 2011
254
Ouvrage
The beach beneath the streets : Contesting New York City's public spaces
, privatisation, espace public, gentrification, mouvement social, mouvement social, néolibéralisme, New York, Shepard Benjamin, Smithsimon Gregory
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary United States.<br /> <br /> Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City—queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists—as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination, identity formation, creativity, problem solving, and even democratic renewal. Through ethnographic accounts of contests over New York City’s public spaces that highlight the tension between resistance and repression, Benjamin Shepard and Gregory Smithsimon identify how changes in the control of public spaces—parks, street corners, and plazas—have reliably foreshadowed elites’ shifting designs on the city at large. With an innovative taxonomy of public space, the authors frame the ways spaces as diverse as gated enclaves, luxury shopping malls, collapsing piers, and street protests can be understood in relation to one another. Synthesizing the fifty-year history of New York’s neoliberal transformation and the social movements which have opposed the process, The Beach Beneath the Streets captures the dynamics at work in the ongoing shaping of urban spaces into places of repression, expression, control, and creativity.</div> </div> <b>Benjamin Shepard </b>is Assistant Professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, CUNY?</div> <b>Gregory Smithsimon </b>is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, CUNY.</div> </div>
Benjamin Shepard Gregory Smithsimon
SUNY Press
June 2011
256
Ouvrage
Paris Manif' : les manifestations de rue à Paris de 1880 à nos jours
Paris, manifestations, mouvement social, rue, ordre, histoire urbaine, Tartakowsky Danielle
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Les manifestations parisiennes, longtemps occasionnelles sinon exceptionnelles, connaissent une croissance exponentielle depuis le milieu des années 1970. Susceptibles d’émaner de tous les milieux et de tous les partis, syndicats ou mouvements, elles revêtent des formes toujours plus diversifiées. Cet ouvrage aborde les liens puissants tissés durant plus d’un siècle entre les rues de Paris et ces manifestations. Il traite des espaces manifestants, de la dramaturgie et de la symbolique mises en œuvre, des problèmes afférant au maintien de l’ordre ainsi que de quelques "grandes manifestations" qui ont rythmé l’histoire de la capitale.</div>
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<b>Danielle Tartakowsk</b><b>y</b> est professeure d’histoire contemporaine à l’université Paris 8. Elle est spécialiste des mouvements sociaux dans la France du XXe siècle et tout particulièrement des manifestations de rue auxquelles elle a consacré de nombreux travaux.</div>
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Danielle Tartakowsky,
(dir.)
Presses universitaires de Rennes
20 mai 2011
288
Ouvrage
Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India
Ahmedabad, histoire urbaine, mouvement social, India, Inde, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Spodek Howard
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity—from Gandhi’s political and labor organizing, through the growth of textile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, to globalization and the sectarian violence that marked the turn of the new century. Events that happened there resonated throughout the country, for better and for worse. Howard Spodek describes the movements that swept the city, telling their story through the careers of the men and women who led them.</div> </div> <b>Howard Spodek </b>is Professor of History at Temple University.</div> </div>
Howard Spodek
Indiana University Press
April 2011
352
Ouvrage
Paris sous tension
Paris, Grand Paris, mouvement social, subversion, mutation urbaine, gentrification, Hazan Eric
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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Parmi les textes réunis dans ce livre, certains sont historiques : la défense de Paris contre les Alliés en mars 1814, les journées de juin 1848 et leur oubli programmé, la photographie des quartiers sous l’Occupation, le Paris de Baudelaire... D’autres sont plus liés à la ville actuelle : les noms de ses rues et ce qu’ils portent comme éclairage sur les édiles successifs, la manière dont l’apartheid parisien ménage des communautés fermées à l’américaine, les modifications de la ville dans les dix dernières années ou encore les projets de Grand Paris.</div>
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Ce qui réunit ces textes apparemment éclatés, c’est qu’ils ont en commun de parler de la tension propre à Paris, de la force de rupture de Paris. Bien qu’il soit devenu habituel de considérer que Paris gentrifié, glacé, vidé de sa substance populaire, est devenu inoffensif, la conviction qui porte ces textes est que la nouvelle couche située au-delà du périphérique va lui rendre — conformément à la tradition de cette ville depuis Charles V — tout son potentiel de subversion.</div>
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<b>Eric Hazan</b> est fondateur de la Fabrique Editions et l’auteur de <i>L'Invention de Paris, il n'y a pas de pas perdus</i> (Le Seuil, 2002).</div>
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Eric Hazan,
(coord.)
La Fabrique
7 avril 2011
128
Ouvrage