Andrew Newman

Student Fellow

Andrew Newman is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include urban space, social movements, immigration, national identity, nature, and the environment. His dissertation, Landscaping Discontent: Space, Class, and Social Movements in Immigrant Paris, is a study of a grassroots mobilization to build a park in one of Paris’ immigrant neighborhoods; he expects to defend it in spring of 2011. Along with Michèlé Jolé and Stéphane Tonnelat, he is co-author of Le Public des Jardins de Paris Entre Observation et Action (forthcoming) which examines the politics of parks and green space in the global city. His project at the Center is concerned with the spatial politics of the Sans-Papiers movement in Paris.

Participating Years

2010–2011

Labor/Crisis/Protest

Labor processes and conditions of employment in almost all sectors of the economy and most of the world have been revolutionized over the last thirty years. Generally, the share of wages in gross domestic product has declined while the share taken by capital (finance in particular) has soared. The response (or lack of it) to these new conditions has been patchy, raising questions of the state of political consciousness and political subjectivity among affected populations. Where, many ask, is the outrage and why the lack of mass protest and mass movement?