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

‘Academic interest in urban social movements has surged around the world since the notion was first introduced in the early 1970s. This Handbook gathers novel as well as retrospective knowledge on (the outcomes of) these movements, and helps to reveal the phases, patterns, cycles and convergences shaping the plethora of struggles around the right to the city.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1Anna Domaradzka and Pierre HamelPART I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN FRONT OFCAPITALIST ACCUMULATION AND STATE PLANNING2 Beyond the localism of urban social movements 14Pierre Hamel3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers ofparticipation in radical movements in Italy 43Carlo Genova5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protestin Berlin 58Lisa VollmerPART II FIGHTING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES, RACISM,EXCLUSION, AND POVERTY IN CITIES AROUNDTHE WORLD6 Spatial segregation during ‘financial apartheid’: Reclaim theCity and its struggle for housing in Cape Town, South Africa 81Antje Daniel7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class strugglesto marginalization 97Dominika V. Polanska8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and NewYork City 114Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131Mary Bernstein and Jordan McMillan10 Rural–urban migration and the right to the city: urban socialmovements in the informal settlements of Namibia and Ghana 148Eric Yankson and Ada Adoley AlloteyPART III URBAN MOVEMENTS AND CITY LIFE IN RETROSPECT11 Brazil’s urban social movements and urban transformations inperspective 168Abigail Friendly12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185Hans Pruijt13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions andprefigurative politics 199Tommaso Gravante14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization ofcommunity through place-based social media: the future willnot be Instagrammed 214Ashleigh WeedenPART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGHEXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232Maciej Kowalewski16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of twoArgentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248Francisco Longa17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatializedoppression: the Gezi legacy 265Aysegul CanPART V COLLECTIVE ACTION, URBAN POLITICS AND/OR URBAN POLICIES18 The everyday politics of the urban commons: ambivalentpolitical possibilities in the dialectical, evolving and selectiveurban context 284Iolanda Bianchi19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence ofa movement of urban memories 300Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century politicalmachines constitute their own opposition 315Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: risingurban activism in Seoul 330Chungse Jung22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road todecolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343Tomasz Sowada23 Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements:the mutual fragmentation of policies and community-basedorganizations in the city of Buenos Aires 363Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, MaximilianoDuarte and Carla Fainstein