Revitalization and its discontents: The political and symbolic economy of post-anthracite Scranton,PA (1945--2010).

详细信息   

• 作者：Schmidt ; Robert J.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2010
• 导师：Martin, William G.,eadvisorDeyo, Fredecommittee memberKansteiner, Wulfecommittee memberMurray, Martinecommittee member
• 毕业院校：State University of New York
• Department：Sociology
• ISBN：9781124149806
• CBH：3413664
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：6987447
• Pages：445

文摘

With uneven success, leaders of the greater Scranton, PA, area have experimented in every way possible to pull their city up by its proverbial bootstraps, pooling public resources and local talent behind a concerted effort to transform an economically depleted city into a viable site of capital investment. Unable to secure sufficient industrial and post-industrial economic activity to prop up the regions insolvent economy, area leaders turned to public subsidies and counter-cyclical, environmentally destructive and nuisance enterprises, including casinos, prisons, landfills and junk yards, among other industries that detract quality of life. This study considers the cultural, political and social adaptations to industrial abandonment as it charts the way residents and leaders have participated in revitalization efforts credited with retarding the citys decline. Matching rigorous academic inquiry with scathing critical assessment of a region burdened by corruption as much as unemployment, this academic exegesis indicts a kaleidoscope of forces, including federal retrenchment, inter-urban competition, entrepreneurial city-building schemes and self-serving political corruption, as the cause of Scrantons post-anthracite malaise. Crafted as a series of episodes meant to invoke the complexity and multifaceted nature of the regions decline, this study considers various registers and viewpoints as it examines the way a myriad of problems resulting from economic decline have been conceptualized, redefined and mis)managed.