@article{6dc987a1e4f648df85b6fdd422413162,
title = "Whose city? What politics? Contentious and non-contentious spaces on Colorado{\textquoteright}s Front Range",
abstract = "Drawing on research from Colorado{\textquoteright}s Front Range (the Denver/Boulder metropolitan area), this paper examines the validity of the {\textquoteleft}post-political{\textquoteright} hypothesis for explaining contentiousness and non-contentiousness in urban space. Examining major urban redevelopment efforts in Denver and a controversy over homeless people sleeping in public space in Boulder, we suggest that the literature on post-politics too narrowly circumscribes the realm of political action and in so doing loses analytical force and risks misunderstanding the nature of political engagement in the city. By contrast, a less circumscribed, more supple definition of politics allows for a better understanding of how the question of {\textquoteleft}Whose City?{\textquoteright}– who the city is for – is always up for grabs. The appearance of post-political consensus, when it occurs, is itself a political achievement, the making of a hegemony, not an explanation.",
keywords = "consensus, dissensus, homeless organising, post-politics, urban redevelopment",
author = "Don Mitchell and Kafui Attoh and Lynn Staeheli",
note = "Funding Information: The research was supported by National Science Foundation grant {\textquoteleft}Collaborative Research: Public Life and Democracy in the United States and United Kingdom{\textquoteright} (BCS-0852442 and BCS-0852455). Funding Information: The research was supported by National Science Foundation grant {\textquoteleft}Collaborative Research: Public Life and Democracy in the United States and United Kingdom{\textquoteright} (BCS-0852442 and BCS-0852455). This support is gratefully acknowledged. Of course, nothing we say here represents the views of the NSF. In addition to exploring the formation of publics in relation to the politics of redevelopment, we also explored: facets of the formation of publics in relation to faith places and the provision of food to poor people; traditional public spaces and practices of community policing; and college/university campuses and changing modes of community engagement. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, {\textcopyright} Urban Studies Journal Limited 2014.",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0042098014550460",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "52",
pages = "2633--2648",
journal = "Urban Studies",
issn = "0042-0980",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "14",
}