Resisting Redevelopment

Winner of the 2021 American Sociological AssociationSection onCollective Behavior and SocialMovements Charles TillyDistinguished Contribution toScholarship Book AwardThe politics of urban development is one of the most enduring central themes of urban politics. In Resisting Redevelopment Eleonora Pasotti 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-nine protest campaigns over a decade in ten major cities across five continents from Santiago to Seoul to Los Angeles. Pasotti sheds light on an approach that is both understudied and remarkably effective - the practice of successful organizers deploying ''experiential tools'' or events social archives neighborhood tours and performances designed to attract participants and transform the protest site into the place to be. With this book Pasotti promises to provide a creative and novel contribution to the literature of contentious politics. Resisting Redevelopment has been reviewed inEuropean Planning Studies International Journal ofUrban and Regional Research Mobilization Regional Studies Journal of Urban Affairs Perspectives on Politics Urban Research & Practice Urban Policy & Research Governance Critical Mass Contemporary SociologyandAmerican Journal of Sociology.