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作者

Gary Hytrek

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue5,P.736-759

语言

英文

关键字

Urban politics,social movements,neoliberalism,framing,living wage/community benefits

作者单位

Department of Geography, California State University , Long Beach, California, USA

摘要

Cities are places where individuals emerge from their private spaces, connect with each other, form solidarities, politicize themselves, and begin to think as a group with distinctive interconnected interests. The politicizing effects of cities, particularly around social justic organizing, is not uniform across space. Long Beach, CA, USA is an unexpected case, a city with a long history of conservative politics. As recent as 2007, the pro-growth coalition blocked challenges to its neoliberal strategy; by 2014 a social justice turnappeared possible. This study makes three claims. 1) Cities are part of broader urban spaces that can foster social networks within and across cities. 2) Interaction between regional progressive and city networks can facilitate mobilizations in cities without a history of progressive politics. 3) The effective leveraging of relationships and resources requires local leadership imbued with a thorough understanding of the city’s history. KEYWORDS: Urban politicssocial movementsneoliberalismframingliving wage/community benefits Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank Varisa Patraporn, Alfonso Hernandez-Marquez, and three anonymous referees for their valuable comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. Special thanks to Walter Nicholls for helping me clarify my thinking in revising the article. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.