- Event name: Young and in Politics: Guiding America’s Future Politicians Towards Office
- Date: Wednesday, August 26
- Time: 11:30 am
- Where: Zoom – https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92647324483?pwd=dyt3enJZcUxVR2pOQ3cyby90c05lQT09
Category: Events
CURE Seminar Series: Featuring Ashley E. Nickels, Ph.D.
Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan: Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeover
When the 2011 municipal takeover in Flint, Michigan placed the city under state control, some supported the intervention while others saw it as an affront to democracy. Still others were ambivalent about what was supposed to be a temporary disruption. However, the city’s fiscal emergency soon became a public health emergency—the Flint Water Crisis—that captured international attention.
But how did Flint’s municipal takeovers, which suspended local representational government, alter the local political system? In Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan, Ashley Nickels addresses the ways residents, groups, and organizations were able to participate politically—or not—during the city’s municipal takeovers in 2002 and 2011. She explains how new politics were created as organizations developed, new coalitions emerged and evolved, and people’s understanding of municipal takeovers changed.
In walking readers through the policy history of, implementation of, and reaction to Flint’s two municipal takeovers, Nickels highlights how the ostensibly apolitical policy is, in fact, highly political.
About the speaker
Ashley E. Nickels, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. She is the co-editor of Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities (Routledge) and author of Power Participation, and Protest in Flint Michigan (Temple).
Ida Wells-Barnett Annual Lecture: Reflections on 400 Years of African-Descended People in the New World
Join us on Monday, February 4 for the Ida Wells-Barnett Annual Lecture.
Rutgers Alumnus, Prentiss A. Dantzler, PhD, is this year’s Ida B. Wells-Barnett speaker. Prentiss is an assistant professor of sociology and Mellon Faculty Fellow at Colorado College, and earned a doctorate in public affairs from Rutgers–Camden.
Date and Time
Monday, February 4 2019 at 6-8 PM
Monday, February 4 2019 at 6-8 PM
Location
Rutgers–Camden, Multi-Purpose Room
Rutgers–Camden, Multi-Purpose Room
This event is hosted by Africana Studies, the Office of Student Involvement, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Next CURE Seminar: “A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City”
The steep rise in neighborhood associations in post-Katrina New Orleans is commonly presented in starkly positive or negative terms – either romanticized narratives of community influence or dismissals of false consciousness and powerlessness to elite interests.
In A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort Stephen Danley offers a messier and ultimately more complete picture of these groups as simultaneously crucial but tenuous social actors. Through a comparative case study based on extensive fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, Danley follows activists in their efforts to rebuild their communities, while also examining the dark underbelly of NIMBYism (“not in my backyard”), characterized by racism and classism. He elucidates how neighborhood activists were tremendously inspired in their defense of their communities, at times outwitting developers or other perceived threats to neighborhood life, but they could be equally creative in discriminating against potential neighbors and fighting to keep others out of their communities.
Considering the plight of grassroots activism in the context of national and global urban challenges, A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort immerses the reader in the daily minutiae of post-Katrina life to reveal how multiple groups responded to the same crisis with inconsistent and often ad-hoc approaches, visions, and results.
Speaker:
Dr. Stephen Danley
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration
Rutgers–Camden
Lunch will be served!
Date & Time
February 1, 2019
12:15-1:30 p.m
CURE Seminar Series: “Employee Ownership and Urban Economic Development” with Christopher Michael, J.D.
Thursday, March 22
Armitage Hall, Faculty Lounge
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Presented by Christopher Michael, J.D.
Director of Employee Ownership, Newark Community Economic Development Corporation
To date, cities have not fully utilized employee ownership as an economic development strategy––as a means to retain businesses, improve the quality of jobs, and expand the local tax base. In this short lecture, Chris Michael will share personal experiences with initiatives in New York City and Newark, NJ that aim to increase the number and size of employee-owned businesses in the local region. As context, he will also relate findings from dissertation research on the history of employee ownership in the United States.
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