Format:
1 online resource (332 pages)
ISBN:
9789811627385
Series Statement:
Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
Content:
Intro -- Series Editor's Preface for Housing Movements in Rome: Resistance and Class -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction, Background and Theoretical Framework -- 1: Housing in Movements, Cities in Change -- 1.1 Scope and Structure of This Book: What the Reader Can Expect from This Study -- 1.2 Boundaries and Potentialities of Ethnography and Case Selection -- References -- 2: A Spatial and Strategic Approach for Analysing Housing Movements -- 2.1 Going beyond the "Urban Social Movement" Approach -- Re-shaping "Right to the City" -- Squatting Practice: Between Resilience and Resistance -- 2.2 The Spatial and Strategic Approach -- Deconstructing Space -- Space as Scalar Dimension -- Space as Structure in the Dominant Paradigm -- Space as Agency -- Non-determined Structure: Towards the Concept of "Spatial Opportunity Structure" -- Conceptualizing Strategy -- Historical Sedimentation -- Spatial Dimension -- From Repertoire of Contention to "Configurations of Strategies" -- 2.3 Constructing a "Class of Dispossessed" Through the Housing Struggle -- Housing Movement Organizations as Knowledge Producers: Resistance Praxis -- What Class? From Exploitation to "Dispossession" -- Overturning Dispossession: Squats as "Educational Sites of Resistance" -- References -- 3: The Struggle for Housing in the Eternal City -- 3.1 Contextualizing the Housing Question: Roots and Start of the Housing Struggle in Rome -- Origin of the Struggle for Housing: Self-Made Housing in the "Borgate" -- First Phase: Non-parliamentary Left and Relationship with the Communist Party -- Second Phase: The Latent Presence -- Third Phase: Consolidation of the Neoliberal Paradigm -- Fourth Phase: Massive Wave of Immigration -- 3.2 Actors and Challenges of Housing Struggles in Times of Economic and Political Crisis.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811627378
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789811627378
Language:
English
