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Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism
Author(s) -
Martin Deborah G.,
Pierce Joseph
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00980.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , politics , state (computer science) , resistance (ecology) , neoliberalism (international relations) , pluralism (philosophy) , democracy , political economy , political science , sociology , commission , law and economics , law , public administration , epistemology , ecology , philosophy , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
Arguing that resistance to the state is too narrow a conceptualization of a political project that challenges neoliberalism, we posit that there are latent, residual apparatuses of the state which can be activated as part of a systematic progressive politics. We examine Massachusetts’“Dover amendment”, a legal framework which governs group home siting throughout the state. Dover offers a powerful tool with which to resist a neoliberal socio‐spatial agenda, though it has been underutilized toward enabling an alternative landscape. We analyze how and why Dover has often remained latent as a tool for socio‐spatial resistance, and consider a provocative case in Framingham, Massachusetts that suggests how residual state apparatuses may be leveraged in support of an explicitly resistive, progressive agenda.