... the dictatorship. A key element of their success was their effective use of social theatricalities to communicate protesters' demands and to rearticulate the meaning of urban space. This essay aims to demonstrate that these tactics grounded on a poetics of the body symbolically reappropriated the neoliberal city...

...Rebecca J. Kinney This essay analyzes the ways that the “tourist gaze” and the “development gaze” overlap in the neoliberal gentrification of Detroit. It situates Shinola Detroit's corporate branding as an extension of the tourist gaze, a way for tourist consumers to experience the city through...

... built in the desert without thought to history or environmental impact, as a model to project neoliberal desires in places like his hometown, Luanda. Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2018 city architecture aesthetics photography ...

...Lucinda Grinnell In 1982, responding to the worldwide economic crisis and an elevated national debt, Mexico enacted neoliberal reforms and sought to increase social control through stricter penal codes. While penal codes in Mexico City had criminalized violations of “public morality” for many years...

...Ryan Patrick Murphy “United Airlines is for Lovers” turns to the U.S. airline industry to analyze the relationship between gay rights activism and workplace austerity measures in the 1990s. In February of 1997, United Airlines sued the City of San Francisco in an effort to exempt itself from...

... Reinsdorf’s denial is notable not so much for its untruthfulness but rather for how it distilled the politics of growth within the neoliberal city, where large commercial real-­estate interests transferred as much risk as possible onto the public while deliberately obfuscating the process. Only...

... policies in New York City. This widely shared view of Jacobs, how- ever, ignores how intellectuals utilize her theories to propagate neoliberal urban economic development practices, much less the seeds of such thinking in her writ- ings. That work extolled the virtues of urban living, but the seminal...

... In sharp contrast to the twenty-­first-­century neoliberal city, Rocco’s gay Los Ange- 30   Radical History Review les remains resiliently public; if the textual politics promote quaintly identitarian notions of “coming out,” the material effect of his gay geography is nonetheless one of queering...

...], 3). This is, in part, what accounts for the rise of neoliberalism as commonsense, so that other ways of understanding or ordering the world are seen as impractical, even silly. 12. Ibid., 12. 13. See Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex...

.... One of these successors, the neoliberal urban planner Richard Florida, posited himself and his neoliberal urban vision — one that saw the city as fundamen- tally a “creative class” site — as distinctly “Jacobsesque.” Our final seven short essays are divided into two sections, each speaking...

... abandonment, squatters installed drywall, secured utilities, created a plumbing infrastructure, and poured concrete.13 While the resi- dents of similar squats were forcibly evicted in the 1990s as part of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s neoliberal policy of privatizing as much city-­owned real estate as pos...

... their participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American Studies PhD students at the University of Minnesota...

... 2012 notes on contributors Johanna Bockman is an associate professor of sociology at George Mason University. Her book Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism is forthcoming. Sergio A. Cabrera is a doctoral student in sociology at the University...

... has become a significant factor in the global gay travel market as cities seek to commodify marriage as part of a multibillion-dollar global tourism industry. Boyd argues that this process, which insists on both intelligible modern sexual cat- egories and reinforces a neoliberal rhetoric...

...Stephen Dillon This article offers a critical genealogy of the neoliberal-carceral state by engaging the writing of Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur's work is read as a black feminist theorization of neoliberalism at the very moment of its emergence. By engaging Shakur's...

... anvils. . . . The man saved everything. He never moved. He never discarded. He never denied gay history.”19 Kameny’s residential stability (he never moved) and his allegiance to gay vis- ibility (he never denied gay history) speak to a certain kind of urban privilege in the neoliberal city...

... of “creative capitalism,” “creative cities,” and the “creative economy,” as well as the stark realities of precariousness and self-exploitation that animate labor today. Not only is the derivative the emblematic technology of a financial system based on the quasi-scientific management of risk, it also names...

... Press, 2011). 6. See Willem Assies, “David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism, and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia,” Latin American Perspectives 30, no. 3 (2003): 14 – 36; Juan Arbona and Benjamin Kohl, “City Profile: La Paz – El Alto,” Cities 21, no. 3...

... focus and a reactive rather than productive stance. The essay concludes by arguing that small-scale projects grounded in imaginative militancy can serve an important role in contemporary labor education. © 2012 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2012 Forum: Neoliberalism...

... on governmentality approaches, it asks: What discursive conditions made decriminalization possible? In doing so it examines the construction of sex work as a health problem and the normalization of “sex work,” arguing that both can be grounded in a neoliberal problematic of governance. [email protected]...