Martin J. Murray recently published Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973. He is a professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he focuses on planning in developing countries and also an adjunct professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies in U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. He is the author of ten other books including The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940; Taming the Disorderly City; and City of Extremes: Spatial Politics in Johannesburg.
Researching a Movement
Against the Current, No. 240, January/February 2026