Title
Urban Politics and the Production of Capital Mobility in the United States
Publication Date
2009
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the quest to explain changing urban political economic conditions over the past thirty years urban researchers have naturalized capital mobility, to the point where challenging the mobility of capital appears either impossible, undesirable, or both. In this paper I aim to denaturalize capital mobility and to repoliticize the relationship between capital and place through a critical legal geographic investigation of corporate mobility rights in the United States. The overall goal is to help urban researchers to think critically about the politics of capital mobility and to ensure that the legal principles enabling capital mobility remain open to challenge from alternative political perspectives.
Publication Title
Environment And Planning A
Volume
41
Issue
7
First Page
1691
Last Page
1706
DOI
10.1068/a41221
Publisher Policy
pre-print, post-print with 12-month embargo
Recommended Citation
Pendras, Mark, "Urban Politics and the Production of Capital Mobility in the United States" (2009). Urban Studies Publications. 38.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/urban_pub/38