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oapen-20.500.12657-544372022-05-14T02:52:43Z Contemporary Housing Struggles Florea, Ioana Gagyi, Agnes Jacobsson, Kerstin social movements housing studies Central Europe social policy Eastern Europe social policy global economic system neoliberalism austerity bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government::JPQB Central government policies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work & labour This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales. Instead of searching for unilinear narratives connecting structural tensions to politicized claims, the book offers an in-depth contextual analysis of multiple forms of contention, their (often unintentional) interactions, and their broader political-structural background, including tensions surrounded by political silence. The authors analyze the two cases and their comparative lessons through what they propose as a “structural field of contention” approach to the multiple, interconnected ways in which structural tensions become (or not) politicized in today’s social movements. The book will appeal to everyone interested in today’s urban tensions and social movements. 2022-05-13T12:19:19Z 2022-05-13T12:19:19Z 2022 book ONIX_20220513_9783030974053_29 9783030974053 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54437 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-97405-3.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-97405-3 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-97405-3 10.1007/978-3-030-97405-3 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783030974053 Palgrave Macmillan 243 Cham open access
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This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales. Instead of searching for unilinear narratives connecting structural tensions to politicized claims, the book offers an in-depth contextual analysis of multiple forms of contention, their (often unintentional) interactions, and their broader political-structural background, including tensions surrounded by political silence. The authors analyze the two cases and their comparative lessons through what they propose as a “structural field of contention” approach to the multiple, interconnected ways in which structural tensions become (or not) politicized in today’s social movements. The book will appeal to everyone interested in today’s urban tensions and social movements.
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