People as infrastructure politics, a fruitful new analytic in urban political studies, has mysteriously been minimally studied in global north cities and their most punished places, America’s rust belt environments. I chronicle a flourishing people as infrastructure politics in one American rust belt city setting, Chicago’s neglected South Side. Here hundreds of subalterns participate in this resistance politics to reverse what I focus on: a commodifying blues club. Subalterns extract life-giving stuff from this space as they toil in Chicago’s and the South Side’s low-wage economies and marginalized communities. I show that this group’s political acts and practices, guided by their ordinary space’s interwovenness with taut political alliances and alternative ways to see, prove more sly and proactive than we have recognized. This slyness, first, entails an active use of a “back-path politics” as actions confront less club practices than the discursive content of practices. This slyness, second, leads with what I term resistive fragments: momentary, political charged interventions that powerfully resound across the club. The results suggest that this distinctive resistance politics is alive in America’s rust belt cities, closely mirrors realities in global south cities, and is far more complex that we had previously known.

作为基础设施政治的人，是城市政治研究中一项富有成果的新分析，在全球北部城市及其最受惩罚的地区（美国的锈蚀带环境）中，人们对神秘主义的研究很少。我在芝加哥一个被忽视的南边的美国铁锈带城市环境中，记录了一个兴旺发达的人们作为基础设施政治的故事。在这里，数以百计的下属参加了这种抵抗政治，以扭转我关注的焦点：一个商品化的蓝调俱乐部。当他们在芝加哥和南区的低薪经济体和边缘化社区中劳作时，副业长从这个空间中提取赋予生命的东西。我表明，在普通空间与紧绷的政治联盟的相互交织以及另类的观察方式的指导下，该组织的政治行为和实践证明比我们所认识的更加狡猾和积极。首先，这种狡猾 由于行动面临的俱乐部行为少于行为的话语内容，因此必须积极使用“后路政治”。其次，这种狡猾导致了我所说的抵抗性片段：在俱乐部中有力回响的瞬时的，带有政治色彩的干预。结果表明，这种独特的抵抗政治在美国的锈带城市中仍然存在，与全球南方城市的现实紧密地相映成趣，并且比我们以前所知道的要复杂得多。