Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism |
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Authors: | Deborah G. Martin Joseph Pierce |
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Affiliation: | 1. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA;2. demartin@clarku.edu;3. Department of Geography, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA;4. jpierce3@fsu.edu |
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Abstract: | Abstract: Arguing that resistance to the state is too narrow a conceptualization of a political project that challenges neoliberalism, we posit that there are latent, residual apparatuses of the state which can be activated as part of a systematic progressive politics. We examine Massachusetts’“Dover amendment”, a legal framework which governs group home siting throughout the state. Dover offers a powerful tool with which to resist a neoliberal socio‐spatial agenda, though it has been underutilized toward enabling an alternative landscape. We analyze how and why Dover has often remained latent as a tool for socio‐spatial resistance, and consider a provocative case in Framingham, Massachusetts that suggests how residual state apparatuses may be leveraged in support of an explicitly resistive, progressive agenda. |
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Keywords: | resistance law state democratic radical pluralism group home siting urban politics |
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