Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City

Timothy P. R. Weaver

Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
7 March 2025
Pages
122
ISBN
9781439925638

Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City

Timothy P. R. Weaver

Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism--emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the intercurrent impact of these orders has created a constant battle for power. Weaver brings these clashes to the fore by showing how New York City politics has been shaped by these conflicting orders. He examines the transformation of the city's political economy in the aftermath of the 1975 fiscal crisis through neoliberal real estate development and privatization, the conservative rise of law-and-order politics in the 1970s to 1990s, and the efforts of the city's egalitarians to respond to the each of these shifts through social movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter.

Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City belies glib assumptions about the city's liberal character. Weaver reveals the metropolis not as a homogenous political whole, but as a site in which the victories and defeats of rival political forces change the terms of local citizenship for the millions of residents who call the city home.

In the series Political Lessons from American Cities

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