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List 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.
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
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'Resisting Redevelopment offers a sweeping, theoretically rich analysis of the politics of gentrification and redevelopment in twenty-first century aspiring global cities. Analyzing twenty-nine cases of protest against redevelopment in ten meticulously researched cities, Pasotti asks how residents are mobilized and what makes resistance successful. Her breakthrough findings highlight the role of experiential tools that activate neighborhood identities, even without being overtly political. The results offer a nuanced and insightful look at who wins and who loses in battles over urban space.' Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced
