Contested Cities and Urban Activism
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a bro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | The Contemporary City
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION
- Introduction
- Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy
- SECTION 2 - CHANGING FORMS OF URBAN ACTIVISM
- Housing Activism against the Production of Ignorance: Some Lessons from the UK
- Urban Food Activism in Athens: Recovering More Autonomous Forms of Social reproduction
- From Obedience to Resistance: Understanding Equal Rights to Education Movement as a Cultural Process
- SECTION 3 - URBAN ACTIVISM - ACTIVISTS AND THEIR NETWORKS
- Has Urban Cycling Improved in Hong Kong? A Socio-Political Analysis of Cycling Advocacy Activists' Contributions and Dilemmas
- Urban Activism in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Deprived and Discontented Citizens Demanding a More Just City
- From the Squatters' Movement to Housing Activism in Spain: Identities, Tactics and Political Orientation
- Squatted Social Centers Activists and 'Locally Unwanted Land Use' Movements in Italy
- SECTION 4 - URBAN ACTIVISM - CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHT TO THE CITY
- 'We are Quality Citizens of Bangkok Too': Urban Activism in Bangkok during the 2011 Floods
- The Evolution of Housing Rights Activism in South Korea
- The Squatters' and Tenants' Movement in Buenos Aires. A Vindication of Centrality and the Self-Managed Production of Space.
