Table Of ContentResisting Redevelopment
Thepoliticsofurbandevelopmentisoneofthemostenduring,central
themesofurbanpolitics.InResistingRedevelopment,EleonoraPasotti
explores the forces that enable residents of “aspiring global cities,” or
economically competitive cities, to mobilize against gentrification and
other forms of displacement, as well as what makes mobilizations
successful. Scholars and activists alike will benefit from this one-of-a-
kind comparative study. Impressive in its scope, this book examines
twenty-nineprotestcampaignsoveradecadeintenmajorcitiesacross
five continents, from Santiago to Seoul to Los Angeles. Pasotti sheds
light on an approach that is both understudied and remarkably effect-
ive: thepracticeofsuccessfulorganizersdeploying“experientialtools,”
or events, social archives, neighborhood tours, and performances
designed to attract participants and transform the protest site into the
placetobe.Withthisbook,Pasottipromisestoprovideacreativeand
novelcontributiontotheliteratureofcontentiouspolitics.
isAssociateProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversity
of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Branding in
GlobalCities,publishedbyCambridgeStudiesinComparativePolitics.
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GeneralEditor
DougMcadamStanfordUniversityandCenterforAdvancedStudyinthe
BehavioralSciences
Editors
MarkBeissingerPrincetonUniversity
DonatelladellaPortaScuolaNormaleSuperiore
JackA.GoldstoneGeorgeMasonUniversity
MichaelHanaganVassarCollege
HollyJ.McCammonVanderbiltUniversity
DavidS.MeyerUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine
SarahSouleStanfordUniversity
SuzanneStaggenborgUniversityofPittsburgh
SidneyTarrowCornellUniversity
CharlesTilly(d.2008)ColumbiaUniversity
ElisabethJ.WoodYaleUniversity
DeborahYasharPrincetonUniversity
RinaAgarwala,InformalLabor,FormalPolitics,andDignifiedDiscontentinIndia
RonaldAminzade,Race,Nation,andCitizenshipinPost-ColonialAfrica:TheCase
ofTanzania
RonaldAminzadeetal.,SilenceandVoiceintheStudyofContentiousPolitics
JavierAuyero,RoutinePoliticsandViolenceinArgentina:TheGrayZoneof
StatePower
PhillipM.Ayoub,WhenStatesComeOut:Europe’sSexualMinoritiesandthe
PoliticsofVisibility
AmritaBasu,ViolentConjuncturesinDemocraticIndia
W.LanceBennettandAlexandraSegerberg,TheLogicofConnectiveAction:
DigitalMediaandthePersonalizationofContentiousPolitics
NancyBermeoandDeborahJ.Yashar,editors,Parties,Movements,andDemocracy
intheDevelopingWorld
CliffordBob,TheGlobalRightWingandtheClashofWorldPolitics
CliffordBob,TheMarketingofRebellion:Insurgents,Media,andInternational
Activism
RobertBraun,ProtectorsofPluralism:ReligiousMinoritiesandtheRescueofJews
intheLowCountriesduringtheHolocaust
CharlesBrockett,PoliticalMovementsandViolenceinCentralAmerica
MarisavonBülow,BuildingTransnationalNetworks:CivilSocietyandthePolitics
ofTradeintheAmericas
ValerieBunceandSharonWolchik,DefeatingAuthoritarianLeadersin
PostcommunistCountries
TeriL.CarawayandMicheleFord,LaborandPoliticsinIndonesia
(continuedafterindex)
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Resisting Redevelopment
Protest in Aspiring Global Cities
ELEONORA PASOTTI
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz
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Resisting Redevelopment
Thepoliticsofurbandevelopmentisoneofthemostenduring,central
themesofurbanpolitics.InResistingRedevelopment,EleonoraPasotti
explores the forces that enable residents of “aspiring global cities,” or
economically competitive cities, to mobilize against gentrification and
other forms of displacement, as well as what makes mobilizations
successful. Scholars and activists alike will benefit from this one-of-a-
kind comparative study. Impressive in its scope, this book examines
twenty-nineprotestcampaignsoveradecadeintenmajorcitiesacross
five continents, from Santiago to Seoul to Los Angeles. Pasotti sheds
light on an approach that is both understudied and remarkably effect-
ive: thepracticeofsuccessfulorganizersdeploying“experientialtools,”
or events, social archives, neighborhood tours, and performances
designed to attract participants and transform the protest site into the
placetobe.Withthisbook,Pasottipromisestoprovideacreativeand
novelcontributiontotheliteratureofcontentiouspolitics.
isAssociateProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversity
of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Branding in
GlobalCities,publishedbyCambridgeStudiesinComparativePolitics.
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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
GeneralEditor
DougMcadamStanfordUniversityandCenterforAdvancedStudyinthe
BehavioralSciences
Editors
MarkBeissingerPrincetonUniversity
DonatelladellaPortaScuolaNormaleSuperiore
JackA.GoldstoneGeorgeMasonUniversity
MichaelHanaganVassarCollege
HollyJ.McCammonVanderbiltUniversity
DavidS.MeyerUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine
SarahSouleStanfordUniversity
SuzanneStaggenborgUniversityofPittsburgh
SidneyTarrowCornellUniversity
CharlesTilly(d.2008)ColumbiaUniversity
ElisabethJ.WoodYaleUniversity
DeborahYasharPrincetonUniversity
RinaAgarwala,InformalLabor,FormalPolitics,andDignifiedDiscontentinIndia
RonaldAminzade,Race,Nation,andCitizenshipinPost-ColonialAfrica:TheCase
ofTanzania
RonaldAminzadeetal.,SilenceandVoiceintheStudyofContentiousPolitics
JavierAuyero,RoutinePoliticsandViolenceinArgentina:TheGrayZoneof
StatePower
PhillipM.Ayoub,WhenStatesComeOut:Europe’sSexualMinoritiesandthe
PoliticsofVisibility
AmritaBasu,ViolentConjuncturesinDemocraticIndia
W.LanceBennettandAlexandraSegerberg,TheLogicofConnectiveAction:
DigitalMediaandthePersonalizationofContentiousPolitics
NancyBermeoandDeborahJ.Yashar,editors,Parties,Movements,andDemocracy
intheDevelopingWorld
CliffordBob,TheGlobalRightWingandtheClashofWorldPolitics
CliffordBob,TheMarketingofRebellion:Insurgents,Media,andInternational
Activism
RobertBraun,ProtectorsofPluralism:ReligiousMinoritiesandtheRescueofJews
intheLowCountriesduringtheHolocaust
CharlesBrockett,PoliticalMovementsandViolenceinCentralAmerica
MarisavonBülow,BuildingTransnationalNetworks:CivilSocietyandthePolitics
ofTradeintheAmericas
ValerieBunceandSharonWolchik,DefeatingAuthoritarianLeadersin
PostcommunistCountries
TeriL.CarawayandMicheleFord,LaborandPoliticsinIndonesia
(continuedafterindex)
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Resisting Redevelopment
Protest in Aspiring Global Cities
ELEONORA PASOTTI
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz
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477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,3207,Australia
314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,
NewDelhi–110025,India
79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108478021
:10.1017/9781108775700
©EleonoraPasotti2020
Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception
andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,
noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten
permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.
Firstpublished2020
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:Pasotti,Eleonara,1972–author.
:Resistingredevelopment:protestinaspiringglobalcities/EleonaraPasotti.
:NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2020.|Series:Cambridgestudies
incontentiouspolitics|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
:2019038897(print)|2019038898(ebook)|
9781108478021(hardback)|9781108745444(paperback)|
9781108775700(epub)
::Cityplanning–Chile–Santiago.|Cityplanningdistricts–Chile–Santiago.
:169.52372020(print)|169.52(ebook)|
307.1/2160983315–dc23
LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019038897
LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019038898
978-1-108-47802-1Hardback
978-1-108-74544-4Paperback
CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy
ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication
anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,
accurateorappropriate.
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Resisting Redevelopment
Thepoliticsofurbandevelopmentisoneofthemostenduring,central
themesofurbanpolitics.InResistingRedevelopment,EleonoraPasotti
explores the forces that enable residents of “aspiring global cities,” or
economically competitive cities, to mobilize against gentrification and
other forms of displacement, as well as what makes mobilizations
successful. Scholars and activists alike will benefit from this one-of-a-
kind comparative study. Impressive in its scope, this book examines
twenty-nineprotestcampaignsoveradecadeintenmajorcitiesacross
five continents, from Santiago to Seoul to Los Angeles. Pasotti sheds
light on an approach that is both understudied and remarkably effect-
ive: thepracticeofsuccessfulorganizersdeploying“experientialtools,”
or events, social archives, neighborhood tours, and performances
designed to attract participants and transform the protest site into the
placetobe.Withthisbook,Pasottipromisestoprovideacreativeand
novelcontributiontotheliteratureofcontentiouspolitics.
isAssociateProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversity
of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Branding in
GlobalCities,publishedbyCambridgeStudiesinComparativePolitics.
Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Columbia University - Law Library, on 11 Jun 2020 at 17:21:55, subject to the Cambridge
Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108775700
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
GeneralEditor
DougMcadamStanfordUniversityandCenterforAdvancedStudyinthe
BehavioralSciences
Editors
MarkBeissingerPrincetonUniversity
DonatelladellaPortaScuolaNormaleSuperiore
JackA.GoldstoneGeorgeMasonUniversity
MichaelHanaganVassarCollege
HollyJ.McCammonVanderbiltUniversity
DavidS.MeyerUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine
SarahSouleStanfordUniversity
SuzanneStaggenborgUniversityofPittsburgh
SidneyTarrowCornellUniversity
CharlesTilly(d.2008)ColumbiaUniversity
ElisabethJ.WoodYaleUniversity
DeborahYasharPrincetonUniversity
RinaAgarwala,InformalLabor,FormalPolitics,andDignifiedDiscontentinIndia
RonaldAminzade,Race,Nation,andCitizenshipinPost-ColonialAfrica:TheCase
ofTanzania
RonaldAminzadeetal.,SilenceandVoiceintheStudyofContentiousPolitics
JavierAuyero,RoutinePoliticsandViolenceinArgentina:TheGrayZoneof
StatePower
PhillipM.Ayoub,WhenStatesComeOut:Europe’sSexualMinoritiesandthe
PoliticsofVisibility
AmritaBasu,ViolentConjuncturesinDemocraticIndia
W.LanceBennettandAlexandraSegerberg,TheLogicofConnectiveAction:
DigitalMediaandthePersonalizationofContentiousPolitics
NancyBermeoandDeborahJ.Yashar,editors,Parties,Movements,andDemocracy
intheDevelopingWorld
CliffordBob,TheGlobalRightWingandtheClashofWorldPolitics
CliffordBob,TheMarketingofRebellion:Insurgents,Media,andInternational
Activism
RobertBraun,ProtectorsofPluralism:ReligiousMinoritiesandtheRescueofJews
intheLowCountriesduringtheHolocaust
CharlesBrockett,PoliticalMovementsandViolenceinCentralAmerica
MarisavonBülow,BuildingTransnationalNetworks:CivilSocietyandthePolitics
ofTradeintheAmericas
ValerieBunceandSharonWolchik,DefeatingAuthoritarianLeadersin
PostcommunistCountries
TeriL.CarawayandMicheleFord,LaborandPoliticsinIndonesia
(continuedafterindex)
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