https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12558?af=R Abstract

This article considers how insurgent campaigns for housing the poor in New York City and Chicago succeeded in engaging the local state, non"?profits and financial institutions in the creation of community land trusts. These campaigns had long arcs in which victories and losses built from each other, neither as permanent as they initially seemed. The campaigns moved iteratively between spaces of "invited citizenship" (courtrooms, planning committees) and "invented" spaces of collective action (property takeovers). They found their greatest success when, exploiting state incapacity to defend abandoned property, they elicited a degree of complicity from local governments in their takeovers of housing and land. The article thus contests dichotomised accounts of social movements that oppose losses to victories, cooptation to resistance, and movements to institutions. Instead, we call for situated and dynamic accounts of insurgent practice, capable of theorising the long, messy, co"?constituted evolution of political contexts and popular struggle.

R?sum?

Cet article examine comment des campagnes populaires pour le logement des d?munis ?? New York et ?? Chicago ont r?ussi ?? engager l'Etat et des institutions financi??res locales dans la cr?ation de community land trusts. Dans la trajectoire de leurs luttes, victoires et pertes se sont construites les unes des autres, ni aussi permanentes qu'elles semblaient au d?part. Les campagnes ont jou? de mani??re it?rative sur des espaces de «citoyennet? invit?e» (tribunaux, mairie) et des espaces «invent?s» d'action collective (squats). Elles ont trouv? leur plus grand succ??s lorsque, exploitant l'incapacit? de l'??tat ?? d?fendre des propri?t?s abandonn?es, elles ont suscit? une certaine complicit? des gouvernements locaux dans leurs prises de contr?le des terrains. L'article conteste donc les r?cits dichotomiques de mouvements sociaux opposant les pertes aux victoires, la cooptation ?? la r?sistance, et les mouvements aux institutions. Au lieu de cela, nous favorisons des comptes rendus contextualis?s et dynamiques de la pratique des «insurg?s», cherchant ?? th?oriser l'?volution longue, nuanc?e et co"?constitu?e des contextes politiques et de la lutte populaire.

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