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Politics and Possibility on the Metropolitan Edge: The Scale of Social Movement Space in Exurbia

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  • Alex Schafran

    (School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England)

  • Oscar Sosa Lopez

    (Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 228 Wurster Hall #1850, Berkeley, CA 94720-1850, USA)

  • June L Gin

    (Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, 16111 Plummer Street, MS-152, North Hills, CA 91343, USA)

Abstract

Both the suburbanization of poverty and the growth of suburban social movements have been the focus of much academic discussion of late, even if these two discussions are not necessarily linked. One area that has been relatively underresearched when it comes to both phenomena are exurban regions, critical spaces of change and crisis, in particular in upmarket regions like those in Northern and Southern California. This paper presents a case study of the ‘social movement space’ of eastern Contra Costa County, on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. It argues that not only did propoor, social-justice-oriented movements arise over the past decade in response to changing geography, they exhibited a form of ‘scalar promiscuity’ which differs from the regionalization of social movements or other forms of ‘scale jumping’ well known in the literature.

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  • Alex Schafran & Oscar Sosa Lopez & June L Gin, 2013. "Politics and Possibility on the Metropolitan Edge: The Scale of Social Movement Space in Exurbia," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(12), pages 2833-2851, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:45:y:2013:i:12:p:2833-2851
    DOI: 10.1068/a45570
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