Presentation: A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort

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Join Steven Danley for a presentation on his latest book, A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City. This event is part of Rutgers Center for Urban Research and Education's monthly research lunch series. All are welcome.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort Stephen Danley offers a messier and ultimately more complete picture of these groups as simultaneously crucial but tenuous social actors. Through a comparative case study based on extensive fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, Danley follows activists in their efforts to rebuild their communities, while also examining the dark underbelly of NIMBYism ("not in my backyard"), characterized by racism and classism. He elucidates how neighborhood activists were tremendously inspired in their defense of their communities, at times outwitting developers or other perceived threats to neighborhood life, but they could be equally creative in discriminating against potential neighbors and fighting to keep others out of their communities.

Stephen Danley is assistant professor of public policy and administration at Rutgers University-Camden.