Demonstration location shifts with state control over public space

Evidence

As the OED definition hints, political demonstrations involve more flexibility than do religious processions or military parades. Some center on a march through public thoroughfares, others consist mainly of a gathering in a field, square, or park, while still others combine a public meeting with marches to and/or from the meeting. Where demonstrations take place depends on a combination of local symbolic geography, governmental control over public space, and convenience in accommodating large numbers of people safely. But organizers of demonstrations do not, on the whole, hide them from public view. On the contrary, they make a deliberate effort to impress their WUNC displays on authorities, audiences, and media. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1187

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core question: if state control of public space shapes where demonstrations happen, does institutional absorption of the form also shape whether subordinate groups can use it? — connects to: Demonstrations synthesize local specificity with widely legible contentious forms — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1180; Cities physically redesign public space to prevent morally suspect strangers from gathering — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 438; Local commons adapt and persist through contestation and shifting state relations — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 95 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1187

Broader Connections

• Cities physically redesign public space to prevent morally suspect strangers from gathering #exemplifies (0.88) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 438
• Rival spatial strategies serve different relations between property and state power #expands (0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1619
• Local commons adapt and persist through contestation and shifting state relations #expands (0.75) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 95
• Modern cities specialize public space and mask citizens’ heterogeneity #qualifies (0.74) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 355
• Residents’ private claiming of public spaces both reinforces and subverts urban spatial order #complicates (0.72)