What is it about?

This case study of tenant-organizing in Nashville, TN (USA) explores the work residents do to confront stigma, gain access to political processes, and fight for material demands.

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Why is it important?

To often, the success of tenant-organizing is measured exclusively on the degree to which material demands are met, ignoring other important contributions. Organizing can also offer counter-narratives of marginalized communities, and reveal the ways seemingly open political processes restrict resident participation.

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This page is a summary of: Disrupting the order of things: Public housing tenant organizing for material, political and epistemological justice, Cities, September 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2015.10.006.
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