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American Counterpublics: Race, Class, and Radical Politics

American Counterpublics: Race, Class, and Radical Politics City & Society Forum: “Insurgent Citizens and the Spectral Return of the Political in the Post-Democratic City: Urban anthropologists engage the work of Erik Swyngedouw” Micaela di Leonardo Northwestern University I thank Erik Swyngedouw for his adumbration of the global urban neoliberal post-political moment and its depressing, enervating, and sometimes exhilarating sequelae. I would like to call attention to an under-attended American phenomenon that not only escapes that overarching world of consensus, depoliticization, and the technocratic discourse and practice that has led to a widespread sense of the impossibility of change and/or a rightist trending populism, in both the United States and Europe—but has practiced that escape for the last twenty-four years. This is not an “embryonic form of radical politicization,” but rather an ongoing, under-noticed one. In Swyngedouw’s locution, it is a “way of organizing the urban commons.” But it is not, unlike his examples, the least bit new. In so doing, I am also stressing the necessity of escaping what I have labelled the “Harvey Effect:” David Harvey, despite his immense contributions to our understanding of global political economy, fails to recognize that the historical processes of racialization and gender/sexual relations are intimately part of capitalist histories, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

American Counterpublics: Race, Class, and Radical Politics

City & Society , Volume 30 (2) – Jan 1, 2018

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Wiley
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© 2018 by the American Anthropological Association
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0893-0465
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1548-744X
DOI
10.1111/ciso.12172
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City & Society Forum: “Insurgent Citizens and the Spectral Return of the Political in the Post-Democratic City: Urban anthropologists engage the work of Erik Swyngedouw” Micaela di Leonardo Northwestern University I thank Erik Swyngedouw for his adumbration of the global urban neoliberal post-political moment and its depressing, enervating, and sometimes exhilarating sequelae. I would like to call attention to an under-attended American phenomenon that not only escapes that overarching world of consensus, depoliticization, and the technocratic discourse and practice that has led to a widespread sense of the impossibility of change and/or a rightist trending populism, in both the United States and Europe—but has practiced that escape for the last twenty-four years. This is not an “embryonic form of radical politicization,” but rather an ongoing, under-noticed one. In Swyngedouw’s locution, it is a “way of organizing the urban commons.” But it is not, unlike his examples, the least bit new. In so doing, I am also stressing the necessity of escaping what I have labelled the “Harvey Effect:” David Harvey, despite his immense contributions to our understanding of global political economy, fails to recognize that the historical processes of racialization and gender/sexual relations are intimately part of capitalist histories,

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Published: Jan 1, 2018

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