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  • 2013 AAG Session: Austerity Cities: Bankruptcy, Dispossession, Foreclosure, Privatization and Resistance

    Co-organizing with Kevin Ward (Manchester) Cities in a number of countries of the industrialized north are under increasing fiscal pressure as national governments have sought to ‘download’ austerity budgeting.  While […]

  • 2013 AAG paper

    How going broke became fiscal fix: American cities in crisis? Since the 2007 financial crisis, all levels of government have faced growing fiscal strain. At the federal level, a burgeoning […]

  • 2012 AAG paper

    Bankruptcy, Bonds and the alleged legacy of the Zodiac Killer: The implications of Vallejo’s fiscal hypochondria Since the 1970s cities have been significantly impacted by a growing reliance on debt […]

  • 2012 AAG

    David Madden (NYU) and I have three sessions running at this year’s AAGs New Geographies of Publics, Spaces and Politics The connections between publics, spaces and politics are complex and […]