Abstract
Addressing the elite-focus of global city literature, this study argues this focus is a product of the field's methodological conventions which limit understandings of non-elites in global cities. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and New York are used as a case study to examine non-elite's access to global social power via traditional and non-traditional political science/historical methods that begin to remedy the field's elite-focus. In light of a literature review and historical analysis, the study argues that the formation of a global city cannot occur without domestic neoliberal policies that encourage global capital into fixed locations. Correspondingly, this study's ethnography illustrates that under neoliberalism, the networks developed at elite-levels are analogous to non-elite networks which frequently deal with the consequences of neoliberalism. A product of its environment, the study concludes that OWS is a denationalized and cosmopolitan movement via its New York location.
Advisor
Krain, Matthew
Second Advisor
Maclean, Robert
Department
History; Political Science
Recommended Citation
Grantham, Daniel, "The Global City of New York: Neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, and the Polarization and Repoliticization of Denationalized Space" (2013). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 3792.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/3792
Disciplines
Political History | United States History
Keywords
new york, occupy wall street, global cities, constructivism, neoliberalism
Publication Date
2013
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 2013 Daniel Grantham