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Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action


Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action

Case Studies in Dialectical Activism
Radical Subjects in International Politics

von: Benjamin Heim Shepard

36,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 02.06.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781783483174
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 286

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<span>Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides. But how might we theorize the evidence of the collisions between social forces that take place in our streets and public commons? Cities are formed through these collective collisions in time. <br><br>This book draws on the author’s own vast experience as an activist to make links between a theory of practice with rich discussion of the histories of conflicts over public space. Each chapter examines activist responses to a range of issues that have confronted New Yorkers, from the struggle for green space and non-polluting transportation, to housing and the fight for sexual civil liberties. The cases are shaped through interplay between multiple data sources, including the author’s own voice as an observing participant, as well as interviews with other participant activists, historic accounts and theoretical discussion. Taken together, these highlight a story of urban public space movements and the ways they shape cities and are shaped by history. </span>
<p><span>Connecting urban activism to historical, philosophical and theoretical ideas of the dialectic, this book builds a new theoretical framework for reimagining the work of anarchist organizing and social movements.</span></p>
<p><span>1. Cities as DIY Spaces: On Dialectical Activism and the Future of Cities</span></p>
<p><span>2. Eco-Activism Increase / Reduce, Growth / Degrowth: From Seed Bombs to Community Gardens and Bike Lanes to Sustainable Urbanism</span></p>
<p><span>3. Public Spaces and Urban Vistas: From Gardens to Urban Libraries and a Struggle Against the Negative</span></p>
<p><span>4. Community Gardens, Creative Community Organizing, and Environmental Activism</span></p>
<p><span>5. Dialectical Times: On the Movement for Non-polluting Transportation and Sustainable Urbanism in New York City</span></p>
<p><span>6. Gardens Are Homes, Gardens Rising </span></p>
<p><span>7. Primitive Accumulation and a Movement for a Home in a Neoliberal City</span></p>
<p><span>8. Contested Urban Space, Union Square, and Dispatches on Voluntary and Involuntary Arrests in New York City</span></p>
<p><span>9. From Emma Goldman to Riot Grrrl, Sex Work, Autonomy and the Transformation of Streets: Reproductive Autonomy, Public Space and Social Movements</span></p>
<p><span>10. Between ADHD and the Desert of the Real: Confessions of a Teenage Ritalin Junkie</span></p>
<p><span>11. Bridging the Divide between Queer Theory and Anarchism</span></p>
<p><span>12. Harm Reduction as Pleasure Activism</span></p>
<p><span>13. Urban Spaces as Living Theater: Toward a Public Space Party for Play, Poetry, and Naked Bike Rides (New York City, 2010–2015)</span></p>
<p><span>14. Notes Toward a Conclusion from the Global Climate March to Paris, Dystopia Versus Utopia in Dialectical Urban Activism</span></p>
<p><span>15. Afterward, From Pandemic to Solidarity, Mutual Aid from Plague Days to Autonomous Zones</span></p>
<p><span>Bibliography </span></p>
<p><span>Index</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
<p><span>Benjamin Heim Shepard is Professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology. For the last two decades, he has worked on campaigns for public space, including community gardens, bike lanes, and public welfare issues ranging from education to AIDS services. To this end, he has done organizing work with the Professional Staff Congress, ACT UP, SexPanic!, Reclaim the Streets, Times UP, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Housing Works, and More Gardens!. He is currently the president of the Mid Atlantic Consortium of Human Services. He is also the author of the books: </span><span>Illuminations on Market Stree</span><span>t, </span><span>bel Friendships,Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services</span><span>, </span><span>White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic</span><span> and </span><span>Queer Political Performance and Protest.</span><span> Part two of this study is </span><span>Play, Creativity, and Social Movements</span><span>. Along with Greg Smithsimon, he is co-author of </span><span>The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York’s Public Spaces</span><span>. He is the co-editor of the book </span><span>From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization</span><span> which was a non-fiction finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in 2002.</span></p>

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