Citizenship Activism And The City

Download or read book Citizenship, Activism and the City written by Patricia Burke Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The invisible and the impossible -- Concrete life -- Note -- 1. What we talk about when we talk about Occupy: Politics and citizenship in crisis -- Occupy as politics -- Occupy as a story -- Occupy as art -- Occupy as grammar -- The occupied city -- 2. Radical politics and the 'post-political' critique -- The unbearable whiteness of the post-political critique -- Solidarity and intersectionality -- More, better democracy? -- Notes -- 3. Sad, sick and diva citizens: Resistance, refusal and urban space -- Marginalization and suffering in the city -- Diva citizenship, utopian spaces and the politics of refusal -- Art, play and the city: Acts of citizenship and healing -- Conclusion -- 4. The arc of politics -- The politics of critical urban theory -- Anarchist theory and the politics of the inhabited city -- The constitutionalism of invisible, impossible politics -- Note -- References -- Index