The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space by Mitchell, Don

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781572308473)

Vendor: Don Mitchell
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Format: Paperback
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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space by Mitchell, Don

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

$41.00
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space by Mitchell, Don

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

$41.00
Format: Paperback
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Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States. Don Mitchell explores how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city. A series of linked cases provides in-depth analyses of early twentieth-century labor demonstrations, the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley, contemporary anti-abortion protests, and efforts to remove homeless people from urban streets.

Author: Don Mitchell
ISBN-10: 1572308478
ISBN-13: 9781572308473
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2003
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.67d
By Don Mitchell
By Don Mitchell
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Don Mitchell, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. After receiving his PhD in 1992 from Rutgers University, he taught at the University of Colorado before moving to Syracuse. He is the author, most recently, of The People's Property?: Power, Politics, and the Public, with Lynn Staeheli (2008), and They Saved the Crops: Landscape, Labor, and the Struggle for Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (2012). Dr. Mitchell is a recipient of MacArthur, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Fellowships. He was the founder of the People's Geography Project and serves on the advisory board of Syracuse Community Geography.

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