ISBN:
1137
,
9781349700431
Language:
English
Pages:
339 pages, Index
,
ca. 12 ill
,
156 x 21 cm
Edition:
first softcover printing 2020
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in European political sociology
DDC:
303.6/23094
Keywords:
City dwellers Social conditions 21st century
;
Neoliberalism Social aspects
;
Social change
;
Riots
;
Europa
;
Politischer Protest
;
Europa
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Stadtbevölkerung
;
Protestbewegung
;
Soziale Bewegung
Abstract:
This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade. It shows how analysing these protests in connection with the structural context of neoliberal urbanism and its crises is more productive than standard explanations. Processes of neoliberalisation have caused deeply segregated urban landscapes defined by deepening social inequality, rising unemployment, racism, securitization of urban spaces and welfare state withdrawal, particularly from poor peripheral areas, where tensions between marginalized youth and police often manifest in public spaces. Challenging a conventional distinction made in research on protest, the book integrates a structural analysis of processes of large scale urban transformation with analyses of the relationship between 'riots' and social movement action in nine countries: France, Greece, England, Germany, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Turkey
Abstract:
Re-thinking urban social movements, 'riots' and uprisings : an introduction / Håkan Thörn, Margit Mayer and Catharina Thörn -- Neoliberal urbanism and uprisings across Europe / Margit Mayer -- Rage and fire in the French banlieues / Mustafa Dikeç -- The neoliberal state and the 2011 English riots : a class analysis / Tom Slater -- The Stockholm uprising in context : urban social movements in the rise and demise of the Swedish welfare-state city / Ove Sernhede, Catharina Thörn, and Håkan Thörn -- Last stand or renewed urban activism? : the Copenhagen Youth House uprising, 2007 / Anders Lund Hansen and René Karpantschof -- Right to the city--and beyond : the topographies of urban social movements in Hamburg / Peter Birke -- Athens' spatial contract and the neoliberal omni-present / Antonis Vradis -- Between autonomy and hybridity : urban struggles within the 15M movement in Spain / Miguel A. Martínez López -- Gezi protests and beyond : urban resistance under neoliberal urbanism in Turkey / Gülçin Erdi Lelandais -- Neoliberal post-socialist urban transformation and the emergence of urban social movements in Poland / Dominika V. Polanska -- Afterword : Spatialized social inequalities and urban collective action / Margit Mayer, Catharina Thörn, and Håkan Thörn
Note:
"This book evolved from a series of seminars and workshops on urban uprisings, urban social movements and neoliberal urbanism at the University of Gothenburg between 2011 and 2014." - Seite V
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