God from the machine? Urban movements meet machine politics in neoliberal Chicago

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2574-2590

  Sites, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago; Clientelism; Ethnicity; Machine politics; Movements; Neoliberalism; Urban politics

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLITICS;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870761673     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44419     Document Type: Article

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