Crime, Inequality, and Resistance in New York City: A Multiple Political Orders Perspective
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time: 12:00-1:00pm ET
Location: Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
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Join the Initiative on Cities as we host Timothy Weaver to discuss his forthcoming book, “Crime, Inequality, and Resistance in New York City: A Multiple Political Orders Perspective.”
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Following Professor Weaver’s presentation, we’ll be joined (remotely) by two discussants: Professor Graham Wilson and Dr. Alessandro Busa. Professor Wilson is the co-founder and former director of the Initiative on Cities, and a political scientist with expertise in American politics, cities, and the relationship between government and policymaking. Dr. Busa is a post-doctoral research fellow working with IOC Director Loretta Lees on an EU funded project – SUSTEUS: Assessing the Social Impacts of Sustainability Plans in Low-Income Neighborhoods of Major EU and US cities. His PhD was on New York City and has been published as The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Lunch will be provided.
About the author:
Timothy Weaver is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at The University at Albany (SUNY). He previously held the post of assistant professor of urban politics at the University of Louisville. Dr. Weaver holds a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Politics from the University Of Durham (U.K.) and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and coeditor (with Richardson Dilworth) of How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). His research interests include urban policy and politics, urban political economy, American political development, the role of ideas, political institutions, British politics, race and class. At Rockefeller College, he teaches classes in American Political Development, Comparative Urban Politics, and Race, Class, and Culture in American Politics, State and Local Politics, and Urban Politics and Policy. He serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review.
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