Public Los Angeles (eBook)

A Private City's Activist Futures

Don Parson (Autor)

Roger Keil, Judy Branfman (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5621-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers, structured around single-family homes and an aggressively competitive regional economy, Los Angeles has often been celebrated or caricatured as the epitome of an American society bent on individualism, entrepreneurialism, and market ingenuity. But Don Parson presents a different vision for the vast Southern California metropolis, one that is deftly illustrated by stories of sustained struggles for social and economic justice led by activists, social workers, architects, housing officials, and a courageous judge.

Public Los Angeles presents insights into LA’s historic collectivism, networks of solidarity, and government policy. A follow-up to Parson’s seminal Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles (2005), this volume helps shape our understanding of public housing, gender and housework, judicial activism, and race and class in modernday Los Angeles and asks us if history is repeating. Parson’s work anchors a collection of nine essays by friends and mentors who deepen the discussion of his themes: Dana Cuff, Mike Davis, Steven Flusty, Greg Goldin, Jacqueline Leavitt, Laura Pulido, Sue Ruddick, Tom Sitton, Edward W. Soja, and Jennifer Wolch.

The book is richly illustrated. Biographical and curatorial essays by the book’s editors, Roger Keil and Judy Branfman, provide background material and a coherent storyline for a mosaic of fresh Los Angeles research.

Autor

Don Parson (Author)
DON PARSON (1955–2018) was an independent scholar and author of Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles.

Roger Keil (Editor)
ROGER KEIL is a professor of environmental studies at York University in Toronto and author of several books, including Suburban Planet and Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization, and Social Struggles.

Judy Branfman (Editor)
JUDY BRANFMAN is a filmmaker, writer, and research scholar at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: confirmed GOJ PBs
• Reihe/Serie: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
• Reihe/Serie: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
• Co-Autor: Laura Pulido, Dana Cuff, Mike Davis, Steven Flusty, Greg Goldin, Jacqueline Leavitt, Sue Ruddick, Tom Sitton, Edward W. Soja, Jennifer Wolch
• Zusatzinfo: 52 b&w photos
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Activist Futures • economic justice • Entrepreneurialism • Governmental Policy • historic collectivism • History • Housing equity • housing projects • Human geography • Individualism • Local History • Market Competition • Social Justice • Social Science • Sociology • twentieth century LA • UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment • Urban Idealism • York University
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-5621-2 / 0820356212
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5621-1 / 9780820356211