John Whitlow

Faculty Fellow

John Whitlow is a clinical law professor and supervising attorney in the Community Economic Development Clinic at CUNY Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at CUNY, he was a supervising attorney at Make the Road New York (MRNY), where he oversaw the organization’s housing and public benefits legal services and worked on housing and criminal justice policy initiatives. While at MRNY, he taught in NYU Law School’s Litigation, Organizing and Social Change Clinic, which is based on MRNY’s model of combining legal services and community organizing. He has also worked as a staff attorney at the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project (CDP) and as a staff attorney at Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services. At CDP, he represented tenant associations in group litigation and provided transactional legal assistance to not-for-profit organizations and worker-owned cooperatives. He holds a BA from the Johns Hopkins University, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a JD from CUNY School of Law. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Bushwick Housing Independence Project.

Participating Years

2012–2013

Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future

The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?