Doctoral Dissertation Research: Channeling Politics: Activists, Waterways, and the Fluid Lines of Citizenship in 20th Century Amsterdam

关于阿姆斯特丹的叙述不可避免地以描述这座城市历史悠久的运河系统开始，并注意到它的地方定义特征。这个博士论文研究项目调查阿姆斯特丹的运河和城市的20世纪世纪的政治斗争的权利，住房，安全，财富和身份之间的关系。该研究集中在三个政治动荡时期：20世纪30年代的劳工改革社会主义运动，20世纪60年代反对市场支配的反文化示威，以及20世纪90年代以来保守的民粹主义运动。剪报、工会档案、活动家的随身用品以及这些年来的市政报告记录了围绕就业条件、住宅驱逐、金融不平等和文化压迫的社会宣传浪潮。利用这些文献，本项目重建了这些社会运动的空间历史。在这样做，它解释了活动家如何使用历史运河作为物理站点，经济资源，和象征性图标，以促进他们的公民改革运动。这个研究项目是一个大规模的努力，重新思考空间政治的一部分，无论是在地理领域内外。这个项目没有根据运河的建造历史来分析阿姆斯特丹的运河，而是阐明了码头的政治效用。这种方法揭示了新的光的物质动力学的政治行动主义使用的理论框架，是兼容现有的社会学文献的社会运动。它还直接响应地理学家和人类学家的呼吁，将土地实践知识与城市环境中的社会变革理论相结合。研究结果有助于重要的城市规划辩论的性质不断变化的公共空间及其与住房，就业，环境健康和社区健康的关系。累积起来，这些贡献有助于重新政治化的空间分析，产生新的见解建成景观和公民权利之间的关系。

Narratives of Amsterdam inevitably open with a description of the city's historic canal system, noting its place-defining character. This doctoral dissertation research project investigates the relationship between Amsterdam's canals and the city's 20th century political struggles over rights to housing, safety, wealth, and identity. The study focuses on three periods of political volatility: socialist activism for labor reforms in the 1930s, countercultural demonstrations against market domination in the 1960s, and conservative populist campaigns for economic deregulation since the 1990s. Newspaper clippings, union archives, activist paraphernalia, and municipal reports from these years document surges of social advocacy surrounding employment conditions, residential evictions, financial inequities, and cultural repression. Using these documents, this project reconstructs the spatial history of these social movements. In so doing, it explains how activists used the historic canals as a physical site, economic resource, and symbolic icon to facilitate their campaigns for civic reform.This research project is part of a large-scale effort to rethink spatial politics both within and beyond the field of Geography. Instead of analyzing Amsterdam's canals according to their construction history, this project illuminates the political utility of the quays. This approach sheds new light on the material dynamics of political activism using a theoretical framework that is compatible with the existing sociology literature on social movements. It also responds directly to calls from geographers and anthropologists to integrate knowledge about land practices with theories of social change in urban settings. The findings contribute to important city planning debates about the changing nature of public space and its relationship to housing, jobs, environmental health, and community wellness. Cumulatively, these contributions help re-politicize spatial analysis, generating new insights into the relationship between built landscapes and citizenship rights.