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Articles by Andy Merrifield
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Crowd Politics, Or, ‘Here Comes Everybuddy’
in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 103-114
Subjects: Social Theory , Cities
From Joyce to Lefebvre, sign-posts to a morphology of the demonstration in the age of Twitter and Facebook. Is the city still the indispensable arena of any collective uprising, and what would it mean to claim a ‘right’ to it?
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Chronicle of a City Foretold
in NLR 6, November-December 2000, pp. 155-160
Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , United States
Andy Merrifield on Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City. What are the patterns, and what will be the consequences—social, cultural, political—of the massive influx of immigrants from lands south of the Rio Grande into North American cityscapes?
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