Handbook on Urban Social Movements (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series)

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. Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements PART I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN FRONT OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION AND STATE PLANNING 2. Beyond the localism of urban social movements 3. A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 4. Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of participation in radical movements in Italy 5. Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest in Berlin PART III 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 7. Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles to marginalization 8. Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New York City 9. Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 10. Rural–urban migration and the right to the city: urban social movements in the informal settlements of Namibia and Ghana PART III URBAN MOVEMENTS AND CITY LIFE IN RETROSPECT 11. Brazil’s urban social movements and urban transformations in perspective 12. Squatting, a SWOT analysis 13. Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and prefigurative politics 14. Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of community through place-based social media: the future will not be Instagrammed PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY 15. Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 16. Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 17. The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized oppression: the Gezi legacy 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 19. The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of a movement of urban memories 20. Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political machines constitute their own opposition 21. Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising urban activism in Seoul 22. Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 23. Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements: the mutual fragmentation of policies and community-based organizations in the city of Buenos Aires Index