Steve Dubb: What led you to write Budget Justice—and how would you define the term? Celina Su: I define budget justice as…
Celina Su
Celina Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies at the City University of New York, where her academic, pedagogical, and creative work focuses on everyday struggles for collective governance, centering economic democracy, and racial justice. Her new book Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities is available from Princeton University Press.
While no perfect model PB [participatory budgeting] exists, it remains imperative to examine whether a specific PB process has mobilizing or delimiting…