Research program
Worcester, Massachusetts: A Concrete Analysis
A developing research project aimed at producing an increasingly concrete knowledge of Worcester, Massachusetts, as a historically constituted social formation and concrete situation.
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Research orientation
This project takes Worcester, MA (the city in which I was born and raised) itself as the object of investigation: how it came to assume its present form, what forces and relations organize it, how those relations interact, where its principal contradictions lie, and how the city is situated within larger regional, national, and global structures.
This investigation will necessarily pass through questions of housing and homelessness, land and property, municipal finance, development and accumulation, political institutions, policing and state power, class and national relations, social reproduction, migration, labor, infrastructure, and Worcester’s position within the U.S. imperial core.
My aim is to bring these determinations together rather than study them as isolated subjects, progressively reconstructing the city as a concrete unity of many determinations and relations.