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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.
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.
Contents
1. Cities as DIY Spaces: On Dialectical Activism and the Future of Cities
2. Eco-Activism Increase / Reduce, Growth / Degrowth: From Seed Bombs to Community Gardens and Bike Lanes to Sustainable Urbanism
3. Public Spaces and Urban Vistas: From Gardens to Urban Libraries and a Struggle Against the Negative
4. Community Gardens, Creative Community Organizing, and Environmental Activism
5. Dialectical Times: On the Movement for Non-polluting Transportation and Sustainable Urbanism in New York City
6. Gardens Are Homes, Gardens Rising
7. Primitive Accumulation and a Movement for a Home in a Neoliberal City
8. Contested Urban Space, Union Square, and Dispatches on Voluntary and Involuntary Arrests in New York City
9. From Emma Goldman to Riot Grrrl, Sex Work, Autonomy and the Transformation of Streets: Reproductive Autonomy, Public Space and Social Movements
10. Between ADHD and the Desert of the Real: Confessions of a Teenage Ritalin Junkie
11. Bridging the Divide between Queer Theory and Anarchism
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