His fields of interest include urban studies, community organization, politics and the welfare state, movements and social theory. Recent journal publications include “Beyond Trenches and Grassroots? Reflections on Urban Mobilization, Fragmentation, and the Anti-Wal-Mart Campaign in Chicago” in Environment and Planning A ; and “Contesting the Neoliberal City? Theories of Neoliberalism and Urban Strategies of Contention” in H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Sheppard (eds.), Contesting Neoliberalism: The Urban Frontier . His book-length study of the transformation of New York City, issued as part of the Globalization and Community series by the University of Minnesota Press, is titled Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community .