Gregory Woolston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Woolston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Woolston |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLSTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1307-6314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Revenge: Revanchist Populism in San Francisco and the United States
This article offers a conjunctural analysis of revanchism in San Francisco across scale. Over the past decade, conservative politicians, media, oligarchs, and organisations have emphasised immigration, homelessness, bureaucratic inefficiency, the opioid epidemic, diversity initiatives, and criminal justice reform to frame San Francisco as a weak and lawless city. This coalition's vengeful rhetoric and retaliatory action seek to create a new “comm…
Philanthrocapitalism, Neoliberalism, and the University
Munger Hall, a planned dormitory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was expected to house 4500 students in a single structure, with 94% of their rooms windowless. Designed and partially funded by philanthropist Charlie Munger, Munger Hall is a classic illustration of the hubris and power of philanthropy in the twenty-first century. For many donors, new ways of thinking about the ills of society and the optimal implementation of phila…
Plotting from a plat: Tracing spatial design along Seattle’s Yesler Way, 1850s-2010s
Amid the redevelopment of Seattle’s Yesler Terrace, C. Davida Ingram wrote, ‘residents have made their lives possible in places where others only see the impossible.’ Thinking with Ingram, this article asks ‘what goes unnoticed’ in the reproduction of the built environment along Yesler Way over time. In contrast to its plats—the plans and designs undergirding the colonization of sdzídzəlʔalič, renewal of Profanity Hill, and redevelopment of Yesle…
A Conjunctural Mapping of People's Park
Following calls to spatialize conjunctures, this article proposes and practices conjunctural mapping through a case study of the ongoing struggle at People’s Park in Berkeley, California. Although the method of conjunctural analysis enables and requires an investigation into the multiple forces at work in the production of hegemony, such analyses tend to focus on cultural, economic, political, and social (or horizontal) dimensions of winning or c…
A Conjunctural Mapping of People's Park
Following calls to spatialize conjunctures, this article proposes and practices conjunctural mapping through a case study of the ongoing struggle at People’s Park in Berkeley, California. Although the method of conjunctural analysis enables and requires an investigation into the multiple forces at work in the production of hegemony, such analyses tend to focus on cultural, economic, political, and social (or horizontal) dimensions of winning or c…
Philanthrocapitalism, Neoliberalism, and the University
Munger Hall, a planned dormitory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was expected to house 4500 students in a single structure, with 94% of their rooms windowless. Designed and partially funded by philanthropist Charlie Munger, Munger Hall is a classic illustration of the hubris and power of philanthropy in the twenty-first century. For many donors, new ways of thinking about the ills of society and the optimal implementation of phila…
Plotting from a plat: Tracing spatial design along Seattle’s Yesler Way, 1850s-2010s
Amid the redevelopment of Seattle’s Yesler Terrace, C. Davida Ingram wrote, ‘residents have made their lives possible in places where others only see the impossible.’ Thinking with Ingram, this article asks ‘what goes unnoticed’ in the reproduction of the built environment along Yesler Way over time. In contrast to its plats—the plans and designs undergirding the colonization of sdzídzəlʔalič, renewal of Profanity Hill, and redevelopment of Yesle…
A Conjunctural Mapping of People's Park
Following calls to spatialize conjunctures, this article proposes and practices conjunctural mapping through a case study of the ongoing struggle at People’s Park in Berkeley, California. Although the method of conjunctural analysis enables and requires an investigation into the multiple forces at work in the production of hegemony, such analyses tend to focus on cultural, economic, political, and social (or horizontal) dimensions of winning or c…
The Politics of Revenge: Revanchist Populism in San Francisco and the United States
This article offers a conjunctural analysis of revanchism in San Francisco across scale. Over the past decade, conservative politicians, media, oligarchs, and organisations have emphasised immigration, homelessness, bureaucratic inefficiency, the opioid epidemic, diversity initiatives, and criminal justice reform to frame San Francisco as a weak and lawless city. This coalition's vengeful rhetoric and retaliatory action seek to create a new “comm…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Hegemony (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)