A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

Brahinsky, Rachel; Tarr, Alexander R.

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“…The San Francisco Bay Area has a long and rich history of protest and social movements. Although it is now known as the global centre of Big Tech, it is still “best known as a place of cultural openness and social liberalism” (Brahinsky and Tarr 2020). Such contradictions deeply affect the city and its residents, producing a kind of urban politics that Savannah Shange (2019) describes as a “progressive dystopia”—a place governed by progressive leaders and progressive politics, which nonetheless produces classist and racist policies and structural anti‐Blackness.…”

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Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

Maharawal

2021

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Between 2013 and 2018, the San Francisco Bay Area saw the rise of “Google bus blockades”—a form of protest against gentrification, growing inequality and a housing crisis linked to the economic impacts of the technology sector on the region. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with housing activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, this article argues that the disruptive tactic of “the Google Bus blockade” can be understood as a form of infrastructural activism—a flexible political form that uses the interruption of infrastructure for political ends. The blockades politicised the “Google buses” and transformed them into symbols of gentrification and sites of resistance. Protestors constructed a political analysis that drew connections between struggles for housing, racial and environmental justice and brought together material, affective and political critiques of infrastructure.

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Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

Maharawal

2021

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A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

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Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

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