Bonds of Inequality w/ Destin Jenkins

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, which makes a powerful argument about how the ubiquitous and in many ways invisible dependence of American cities on municipal debt to fund basic infrastructure has devastating consequences for democracy and entrenches spatial, racial, and wealth disparities.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com
0:04.7	and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:11.9	One that you might like is Speaking Out of Place, Getting Our Political Voices Back, by David Palumbo-Lew.
0:19.3	Speaking Out of Place asks us to reconceptualize both what we think
0:23.9	politics is and our relationship to it. As Astra Taylor puts it, this book is a radical and
0:31.0	original reassessment of democratic deliberation and political transformation. Instead of treating
0:37.2	free speech in simplistic terms,
0:40.2	Palumbo-Lu examines the triad of voice, place, and space. This holistic analysis helps us
0:46.6	understand who gets heard, where, and why. True democracy, Palumbo-Lu shows, is a raucous
0:53.8	polyphony, a chorus emanating from specific communities and contexts and struggles that reverberates widely, unsettling and challenging those accustomed to controlling the terms of the debate.
1:07.4	Find speaking out of place at haymarketbooks.org.
1:11.4	Speaking out of place, getting our political voices back by David Palumbo Lou.
1:16.7	Out now from Haymarket Books.
1:19.3	Also, some exciting news.
1:20.8	We have a big live dig show coming up in New York City on the recent upsurge in labor
1:26.7	militancy and what it means for the future
1:28.7	of the labor movement and left politics. It's May 10th, 7 p.m. at the People's Forum. I'll be speaking
1:35.2	to Chris Smalls of the Amazon Labor Union, Jazz Brissack of Starbucks Workers United, Alex Press
1:41.4	of Jacobin, Luis Feliz Leon of Labor Notes, and perhaps more.
1:47.2	That's this upcoming May 10th, 7 p.m. at the People's Forum.
1:52.8	Tickets are free, but you do need a ticket. I will post a link to the Eventbrite in the show notes.
2:10.3	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.
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