ABSTRACT
In D. Harvey's geopolitics of capitalism, the contradiction between fixity and mobility looms large. It is a contradiction apparent in discussion of a territorialized class politics of the living place. There is the way in which new working-class sensibilities induced by new relations to the living place have informed politics at the national level. The urban has been made by changes beyond its boundaries. But by the same token, what has transpired in urban areas has had implications for national politics: its own contribution, more specifically, to the great moving-right show. The pressures from the centre were in part due to population growth, notably in the post-war period, of African Americans; and in part a result of the demolition of housing to make way for so-called 'urban renewal' and freeways. The result was geopolitics of simultaneous competition over space and of pressures on the working class that could then generate struggles among the latter.
