Sustainable urbanism and direct action : case studies in dialectical activism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shepard, Benjamin, 1969- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Series:Radical subjects in international politics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cities as DIY spaces: on dialectical activism and the future of cities
  • Eco-activism increase/reduce, growth/degrowth: from seed bombs to community gardens and bike lanes to sustainable urbanism
  • Public spaces and urban vistas: from gardens to urban libraries and a struggle against the negative
  • Community gardens, creative community organizing, and environmental activism
  • Dialectical times: on the movement for non-polluting transportation and sustainable urbanism in New York City
  • gardens are homes, gardens rising
  • Primitive accumulation and a movement for a home in a neoliberal city
  • Contested urban space, union square, and dispatches on voluntary and involuntary arrests in New York City
  • From Emma Goldman to riot grrrl, sex work, autonomy and the transformation of streets: reproductive autonomy, public space and social movements
  • Between ADHD and the desert of the real: confessions of a teenage ritalin junkie
  • Bridging the divide between queer theory and anarchism
  • Harm reduction as pleasure activism
  • Urban spaces as living theater: toward a public space party for play, poetry, and naked bike rides (New York City, 2010-2015)
  • Notes toward a conclusion from the global climate march to Paris, dystopia versus utopia in dialectical urban activism
  • Afterward: from pandemic to solidarity, mutual aid from plague days to autonomous.