Sean Purdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Purdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Purdy |
| SIGNATURE | PURDY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution
The Long Brazilian Crisis
The coming to office of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought to the fore the need to understand the rise of the far right and to come to terms with the conflicted legacies of more than a decade of rule under the Workers’ Party. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different traditions on the left and introduces their reflections on the contradictions and complexities of the Workers’ Party, the 2008 crisis, the June 2013 prote…
Brazil's June Days of 2013
On June 17, 2013, Brazilians took to the streets in militant rallies and marches against transit fare hikes, poor-quality education and health care services, and the immense public investment in "mega-events" such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. These massive demonstrations capped off a two-week series of demonstrations initially provoked by a 20-cent increase in bus, train, and subway fares in São Paulo. In the face of brutal police…
Brazil at the Precipice
On May 11, 2016, more than two-thirds of senators in Brazil voted to continue impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT) for a supposed “crime of responsibi
Workers and Dictators
Workers and Dictators:Brazilian Labour History 50 Years after the Military Coup Sean Purdy (bio) Paulo Fontes, Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016) Marcelo Badaró Mattos and Rubén Vega, eds., Trabalhadores e Ditaduras: Brasil, Espanha e Portugal (Rio de Janeiro: Consequência, 2014) In 2014, Brazilians solemnly observed the 50th anniversary of the military coup of 1964. The Comissão Nacional da Ver…
Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable
Framing Regent Park
In 1953 and 1994, the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada produced two documentary films about Toronto’s Regent Park, the country’s first and largest low-income housing project. Farewell to Oak Street charted the dramatic ‘before’ and ‘after’ effects of public housing on the family, social and cultural life of the innercity dwellers whose ‘slum housing’ was demolished in the 1940s and early 1950s to make way for the pioneering housing scheme. In …
By the People, for the People
This article analyzes tenant political organizing in Canada’s first and largest housing project, Toronto’s Regent Park, in the 1960s and 1970s, detailing the course of tenant organizing on the questions of project maintenance, the rental scale, and tenant management. Tenants organized around economic and political issues as well as for recognition and dignity in the face of social exclusion. Stigmatization of Regent Park has obscured the extent t…
"Ripped off" by the System
Canada's oldest and largest public housing project, Regent Park in Toronto, was originally conceived as an ideal community for low-income families in housing hardship. By the 1990s, however, it had become virtually synonymous with socio-economic marginalization and behavioural depravity. Indeed, the broader social identity of Regent Park has become an accumulation and escalation of the stigma of its residents. The first section of this article ch…
Bertold Brecht, Public Housing, and Oral History
In Questions From a Worker Who Reads, Bertold Brecht writes evocatively of how the history of ordinary people is forsaken in favor of the stories of kings and emperors. page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill? So many reports. So many questions.' I always keep this poem in mind as I interview former residents of Regent Park public housing project in Toronto, for it is their stories that…
Building Homes, Building Citizens
Historians have long emphasized the importance of national economic policies as key instruments in the project of nation building. In English-Canadian historiography, the pronounced focus on tariffs, railways, western settlement, and state-directed economic regulation is a clear indication of the critical weight accorded to the economic in the creation of a coherent nation state.• Recently, however, historians have begun to look beyond the conspi…
The Robert S. Kenny Collection on Communism and Radicalism at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Parading the Past
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Introduction
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Building the 'Neue Menschen'
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
A Property-Owning Democracy
THERE ARE FEW ASPECTS of urban studies whose interpretation is so hotly disputed as the relationship between home ownership and the working class.A heated debate has raged among social scientists for over a decade now, focusing on the extent to which the rise in home ownership in North America, Britain, Australia and New Zealand can be explained as the result of the orchestration of capitalists and the state. 1 Deep-seated arguments among the maj…
New Times, the Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s
"Ripped off" by the System
Canada's oldest and largest public housing project, Regent Park in Toronto, was originally conceived as an ideal community for low-income families in housing hardship. By the 1990s, however, it had become virtually synonymous with socio-economic marginalization and behavioural depravity. Indeed, the broader social identity of Regent Park has become an accumulation and escalation of the stigma of its residents. The first section of this article ch…
Framing Regent Park
In 1953 and 1994, the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada produced two documentary films about Toronto’s Regent Park, the country’s first and largest low-income housing project. Farewell to Oak Street charted the dramatic ‘before’ and ‘after’ effects of public housing on the family, social and cultural life of the innercity dwellers whose ‘slum housing’ was demolished in the 1940s and early 1950s to make way for the pioneering housing scheme. In …
The Long Brazilian Crisis
The coming to office of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought to the fore the need to understand the rise of the far right and to come to terms with the conflicted legacies of more than a decade of rule under the Workers’ Party. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different traditions on the left and introduces their reflections on the contradictions and complexities of the Workers’ Party, the 2008 crisis, the June 2013 prote…
Brazil's June Days of 2013
On June 17, 2013, Brazilians took to the streets in militant rallies and marches against transit fare hikes, poor-quality education and health care services, and the immense public investment in "mega-events" such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. These massive demonstrations capped off a two-week series of demonstrations initially provoked by a 20-cent increase in bus, train, and subway fares in São Paulo. In the face of brutal police…
By the People, for the People
This article analyzes tenant political organizing in Canada’s first and largest housing project, Toronto’s Regent Park, in the 1960s and 1970s, detailing the course of tenant organizing on the questions of project maintenance, the rental scale, and tenant management. Tenants organized around economic and political issues as well as for recognition and dignity in the face of social exclusion. Stigmatization of Regent Park has obscured the extent t…
A Property-Owning Democracy
THERE ARE FEW ASPECTS of urban studies whose interpretation is so hotly disputed as the relationship between home ownership and the working class.A heated debate has raged among social scientists for over a decade now, focusing on the extent to which the rise in home ownership in North America, Britain, Australia and New Zealand can be explained as the result of the orchestration of capitalists and the state. 1 Deep-seated arguments among the maj…
New Times, the Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s
Building the 'Neue Menschen'
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
A Property-Owning Democracy
THERE ARE FEW ASPECTS of urban studies whose interpretation is so hotly disputed as the relationship between home ownership and the working class.A heated debate has raged among social scientists for over a decade now, focusing on the extent to which the rise in home ownership in North America, Britain, Australia and New Zealand can be explained as the result of the orchestration of capitalists and the state. 1 Deep-seated arguments among the maj…
Introduction
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Parading the Past
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Building Homes, Building Citizens
Historians have long emphasized the importance of national economic policies as key instruments in the project of nation building. In English-Canadian historiography, the pronounced focus on tariffs, railways, western settlement, and state-directed economic regulation is a clear indication of the critical weight accorded to the economic in the creation of a coherent nation state.• Recently, however, historians have begun to look beyond the conspi…
The Robert S. Kenny Collection on Communism and Radicalism at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Bertold Brecht, Public Housing, and Oral History
In Questions From a Worker Who Reads, Bertold Brecht writes evocatively of how the history of ordinary people is forsaken in favor of the stories of kings and emperors. page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill? So many reports. So many questions.' I always keep this poem in mind as I interview former residents of Regent Park public housing project in Toronto, for it is their stories that…
"Ripped off" by the System
Canada's oldest and largest public housing project, Regent Park in Toronto, was originally conceived as an ideal community for low-income families in housing hardship. By the 1990s, however, it had become virtually synonymous with socio-economic marginalization and behavioural depravity. Indeed, the broader social identity of Regent Park has become an accumulation and escalation of the stigma of its residents. The first section of this article ch…
By the People, for the People
This article analyzes tenant political organizing in Canada’s first and largest housing project, Toronto’s Regent Park, in the 1960s and 1970s, detailing the course of tenant organizing on the questions of project maintenance, the rental scale, and tenant management. Tenants organized around economic and political issues as well as for recognition and dignity in the face of social exclusion. Stigmatization of Regent Park has obscured the extent t…
Framing Regent Park
In 1953 and 1994, the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada produced two documentary films about Toronto’s Regent Park, the country’s first and largest low-income housing project. Farewell to Oak Street charted the dramatic ‘before’ and ‘after’ effects of public housing on the family, social and cultural life of the innercity dwellers whose ‘slum housing’ was demolished in the 1940s and early 1950s to make way for the pioneering housing scheme. In …
Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable
Brazil at the Precipice
On May 11, 2016, more than two-thirds of senators in Brazil voted to continue impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT) for a supposed “crime of responsibi
Workers and Dictators
Workers and Dictators:Brazilian Labour History 50 Years after the Military Coup Sean Purdy (bio) Paulo Fontes, Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016) Marcelo Badaró Mattos and Rubén Vega, eds., Trabalhadores e Ditaduras: Brasil, Espanha e Portugal (Rio de Janeiro: Consequência, 2014) In 2014, Brazilians solemnly observed the 50th anniversary of the military coup of 1964. The Comissão Nacional da Ver…
A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution
The Long Brazilian Crisis
The coming to office of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought to the fore the need to understand the rise of the far right and to come to terms with the conflicted legacies of more than a decade of rule under the Workers’ Party. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different traditions on the left and introduces their reflections on the contradictions and complexities of the Workers’ Party, the 2008 crisis, the June 2013 prote…
Brazil's June Days of 2013
On June 17, 2013, Brazilians took to the streets in militant rallies and marches against transit fare hikes, poor-quality education and health care services, and the immense public investment in "mega-events" such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. These massive demonstrations capped off a two-week series of demonstrations initially provoked by a 20-cent increase in bus, train, and subway fares in São Paulo. In the face of brutal police…
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Public housing (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)