Hackworth Manufacturing Decline

How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-55047-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Manufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—Rust Belt cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hackworth, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Organized Deprivation in the American Rust Belt
Part I. Othering the Deprived City
1. Racial Threat and Urban Decline
2. Urban Decline as Conservative Bonding Capital
3. The Conservative Myth of Detroit
Part II. Depriving the Othered City
4. Conservative City Limits
5. Land-Market Fundamentalism
6. Demolition as Urban Policy
7. Saving the City to Kill It
Conclusion: Urban Decline Was Planned
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Hackworth is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism (2007) and Faith Based: Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States (2012).