“Black Lives Matter, Gentrification, and the Security State in the San Francisco Bay Area”

This article analyzes the San Francisco Bay Area Black Lives Matter protests of 2014 in relation to the regional political economy of the tech-industry, the real estate booms, and the attendant ‘eviction epidemic’ in the region. It analyzes the regional political economy as the context in which these protests must be understood, argues that the protests created a regional protest geography that, in turn, was met by a regionalized repressive security state, and reads the disruptive practices deployed by these protests as a series of complex and sophisticated contestations which embodied connections among policing, gentrification, and the regional political economy.