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Handbook on Urban Social Movements
Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of both 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 social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on understanding better how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world.
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This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
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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 social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on better understanding how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world.
Top international scholars introduce the main features of urban movements from countries and cities around the world, including across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, to highlight their diversity as well as the multiple scales through which they are employed. The Handbook first documents the concrete forms of contemporary urban movements, before highlighting new developments in the field, particularly in the face of new forms of communication, and finally examines the specificity of contemporary urban movements in the context of emerging unexpected local and global challenges.
With a broad range of case studies and in-depth coverage of key issues, this Handbook is critical reading for urban studies and social movement studies scholars. The practical advice offered throughout also makes this an invigorating read for representatives of international institutions working on urban policies and development, as well as urban activists looking for a more in-depth study of the field.
Top international scholars introduce the main features of urban movements from countries and cities around the world, including across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, to highlight their diversity as well as the multiple scales through which they are employed. The Handbook first documents the concrete forms of contemporary urban movements, before highlighting new developments in the field, particularly in the face of new forms of communication, and finally examines the specificity of contemporary urban movements in the context of emerging unexpected local and global challenges.
With a broad range of case studies and in-depth coverage of key issues, this Handbook is critical reading for urban studies and social movement studies scholars. The practical advice offered throughout also makes this an invigorating read for representatives of international institutions working on urban policies and development, as well as urban activists looking for a more in-depth study of the field.
Critical Acclaim
‘Academic interest in urban social movements has surged around the world since the notion was first introduced in the early 1970s. This Handbook gathers novel as well as retrospective knowledge on (the outcomes of) these movements, and helps to reveal the phases, patterns, cycles and convergences shaping the plethora of struggles around the right to the city.’
– Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany
‘This Handbook brings to the fore the structural roots of urban conflicts and identities, in creative tension with human agency. Covering an admirably broad range of cases, not restricted to the West, and recognizing the temporal dimension inherent to both urban conflicts and theories on urban dynamics, Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel have edited a collection that will appeal to a broad readership across the social sciences.’
– Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy
– Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany
‘This Handbook brings to the fore the structural roots of urban conflicts and identities, in creative tension with human agency. Covering an admirably broad range of cases, not restricted to the West, and recognizing the temporal dimension inherent to both urban conflicts and theories on urban dynamics, Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel have edited a collection that will appeal to a broad readership across the social sciences.’
– Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy
Contributors
Contributors include: Ada Adoley Allotey, Marcos Ancelovici, Manuela Badilla, Joaquín Andrés Benitez, Mary Bernstein, Iolanda Bianchi, Aysegul Can, Maria Cristina Cravino, Antje Daniel, Anna Domaradzka, Maximiliano Duarte, Montserrat Emperador Badimon, Carla Fainstein, Ioana Florea, Abigail Friendly, Agnes Gagyi, Carlo Genova, Tommaso Gravante, Pierre Hamel, Kerstin Jacobsson, Chungse Jung, Maciej Kowalewski, Francisco Longa, Jordan McMillan, Alicia Olivari, Jeffrey N. Parker, Dominika V. Polanska, Hans Pruijt, Tomasz Sowada, Stephanie Ternullo, Lisa Vollmer, Ashleigh Weeden, Eric Yankson
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1
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 14
Pierre Hamel
3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson
4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of
participation in radical movements in Italy 43
Carlo Genova
5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest
in Berlin 58
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 81
Antje Daniel
7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles
to marginalization 97
Dominika V. Polanska
8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New
York City 114
Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon
9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131
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 148
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 168
Abigail Friendly
12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185
Hans Pruijt
13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and
prefigurative politics 199
Tommaso Gravante
14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of
community through place-based social media: the future will
not be Instagrammed 214
Ashleigh Weeden
PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH
EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY
15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232
Maciej Kowalewski
16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two
Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248
Francisco Longa
17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized
oppression: the Gezi legacy 265
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 284
Iolanda Bianchi
19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of
a movement of urban memories 300
Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla
20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political
machines constitute their own opposition 315
Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker
21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising
urban activism in Seoul 330
Chungse Jung
22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to
decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343
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 363
Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano
Duarte and Carla Fainstein
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1
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 14
Pierre Hamel
3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson
4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of
participation in radical movements in Italy 43
Carlo Genova
5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest
in Berlin 58
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 81
Antje Daniel
7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles
to marginalization 97
Dominika V. Polanska
8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New
York City 114
Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon
9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131
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 148
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 168
Abigail Friendly
12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185
Hans Pruijt
13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and
prefigurative politics 199
Tommaso Gravante
14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of
community through place-based social media: the future will
not be Instagrammed 214
Ashleigh Weeden
PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH
EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY
15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232
Maciej Kowalewski
16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two
Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248
Francisco Longa
17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized
oppression: the Gezi legacy 265
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 284
Iolanda Bianchi
19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of
a movement of urban memories 300
Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla
20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political
machines constitute their own opposition 315
Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker
21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising
urban activism in Seoul 330
Chungse Jung
22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to
decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343
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 363
Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano
Duarte and Carla Fainstein
