Handbook on Urban Social Movements

Edited by Anna Domaradzka, Associate Professor of Sociology, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland and Pierre Hamel, Professor of Sociology, Université de Montréal, Canada

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1
Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel

PART I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN FRONT OF
CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION AND STATE PLANNING
2 Beyond the localism of urban social movements 14
Pierre Hamel
3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson
4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of
participation in radical movements in Italy 43
Carlo Genova
5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest
in Berlin 58
Lisa Vollmer

PART II 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 81
Antje Daniel
7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles
to marginalization 97
Dominika V. Polanska
8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New
York City 114
Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon
9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131
Mary Bernstein and Jordan McMillan
10 Rural–urban migration and the right to the city: urban social
movements in the informal settlements of Namibia and Ghana 148
Eric Yankson and Ada Adoley Allotey

PART III URBAN MOVEMENTS AND CITY LIFE IN RETROSPECT
11 Brazil’s urban social movements and urban transformations in
perspective 168
Abigail Friendly
12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185
Hans Pruijt
13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and
prefigurative politics 199
Tommaso Gravante
14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of
community through place-based social media: the future will
not be Instagrammed 214
Ashleigh Weeden

PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH
EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY
15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232
Maciej Kowalewski
16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two
Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248
Francisco Longa
17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized
oppression: the Gezi legacy 265
Aysegul Can

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 284
Iolanda Bianchi
19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of
a movement of urban memories 300
Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla
20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political
machines constitute their own opposition 315
Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker
21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising
urban activism in Seoul 330
Chungse Jung
22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to
decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343
Tomasz Sowada
23 Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements:
the mutual fragmentation of policies and community-based
organizations in the city of Buenos Aires 363
Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano
Duarte and Carla Fainstein