Publications

Publication details [#61727]

Wee, Lionel. 2016. Language policy, homelessness and neoliberal urbanization: The case of San Francisco's Union Square. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (3) : 263–286.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

Neoliberal urbanization impact is plain in Business Improvement Districts (BID), like San Francisco's Union Square BID, where a fit ‘business climate’ is cooperatively managed, and topdown attempts may result in panhandlers' reinventing begging as work/business. Language policy here has to regarded as (un)planned or transgressive.