Handbook on urban social movements / edited by Anna Domaradzka (Associate Professor of Sociology, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland), Pierre Hamel (Professor of Sociology, Université de Montréal, Canada).
"Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by s...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar Publishing,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to the handbook on urban social movements / Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel
- Part I: The right to the city in front of capitalist accumulation and state planning
- 2. Beyond the localism of urban social movements / Pierre Hamel
- 3. A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles / Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson
- 4. Urban battlegrounds: Strategies of action and drivers of participation in radical movements in Italy / Carlo Genova
- 5. Urban social movements and regulation theory: Tenant protest in Berlin / Lisa Vollmer
- Part II: Fighting social inequalities, racism, exclusion, and poverty in cities around the world
- 6. Spatial segregation during 'financial apartheid': Reclaim the city and its struggle for housing in cape town, South Africa / Antje Daniel
- 7. Tenants' movements in Europe: From working-class struggles to marginalization / Dominika V. Polanska
- 8. Anti-eviction mobilizations in barcelona, montreal, and new york city / Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon
- 9. Hands up, don't shoot: Safety and the city in the twenty-first century / Mary Bernstein and Jordan McMillan
- 10. Rural-urban migration and the right to the city: Urban social movements in the informal settlements of namibia and Ghana / Eric Yankson and Ada Adoley Allotey
- Part III: Urban movements and city life in retrospect
- 11. Brazil's urban social movements and urban transformations in perspective / Abigail Friendly
- 12. Squatting, a swot analysis / Hans Pruijt
- 13. Building real utopias: Urban grassroots activism, emotions and prefigurative politics / Tommaso Gravante
- 14. Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of community through place-based social media: The future will not be instagrammed / Ashleigh Weeden
- Part IV: In search of urban citizenship through experiencing various models of solidarity
- 15. Claiming urban citizenship: Rights and practices / Maciej Kowalewski
- 16. Beyond co-optation and autonomy: The experience of two argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn / Francisco Longa
- 17. The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized oppression: The gezi legacy / Aysegul Can
- Part V: Collective action, urban politics and/or urban policies
- 18. The everyday politics of the urban commons: Ambivalent political possibilities in the dialectical, evolving and selective urban context / Iolanda Bianchi
- 19. The 2019-2020 chilean protests: The emergence of a movement of urban memories / Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla
- 20. Rage against the machine: How twenty-first century political machines constitute their own opposition / Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker
- 21. Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its disContents: Rising urban activism in seoul / Chungse Jung
- 22. Political engagement of urban social movements: A road to decolonization or recolonization of urban management? / Tomasz Sowada
- 23. Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements: The mutual fragmentation of policies and community-based organizations in the city of buenos aires / Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano Duarte and Carla Fainstein.