Abstract
This article situates lower level court cases decided over the last ten years in the context of post-Fordist transformations to urban economies and geographies to address the urban fiscal crisis of the 1970s. Urban public spaces are governed in accordance with norms appropriate for shopping malls or Disney World to attract suburban visitors and tourists. Consequently, demonstrations are zoned away from sites of post-Fordist entertainment to contain their effects. These court decisions indicate the emergence of a neoliberal juridical regime that disarticulates the right of free speech from the practice of democracy
Highlights
Prominent scholarship focusing on the question of freedom of speech in the context of urban space discusses how the privatisation of public space circumscribes the exercise of the right of freedom of speech.[1]
Authoritarian modes of policing are the flip-side to the celebrated fun city of consumption, from the use of militarised policing to clear the poor or homeless from a space being readied for redevelopment, to a ‘zero-tolerance’ attitude toward visible signs of minor disorder by cities implementing the Quality of life (QOL) policing paradigm.[17]
On February 14, 2003, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin made his historic statement against warmongering by the United States and in favor of peace through disarmament at a meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, which was discussing the possibility of authorising the use of force by the United States against Iraq
Summary
Prominent scholarship focusing on the question of freedom of speech in the context of urban space discusses how the privatisation of public space circumscribes the exercise of the right of freedom of speech.[1]. With the privatisation of public space, the landscape of rights shifts to disenfranchise the potential speaker while protecting the power of the owner to control the environment for the owner’s purposes. I will examine lower level court decisions regarding the right to protest over the last ten years, putting them in the context of the shift in urban political economy from Fordism to the city’s neoliberal and postFordist response to the urban fiscal crisis. As these micro-level legal actions accumulate, we can see a neoliberal juridical regime taking shape. It is reduced to becoming one more zoned form of entertainment, spectacle, or simulacrum as it enters the post-Fordist economy of symbolic production
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