Contemporary Housing Struggles

Ioana Florea is a sociologist working on urban transformations and manifestations of uneven development in Eastern European cities. Her recent contributions on housing struggles are published in Radical Housing Journal (2020), Global Urbanism. Knowledge, Power and the City (Routledge, 2021), Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care (Institute of Network Cultures, 2021).Agnes Gagyi is a sociologist working on Eastern European politics and social movements from the perspective of the region’s long-term world-economic and geopolitical integration. Her recent publications include The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe (Palgrave, 2021).Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, working in the field of political sociology and social movements. She has edited several books on social movements and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, including Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland (Berghahn, 2017, co-edited with Elzbieta Korolczuk).

• 1. Introduction. Embedding the Analysis of Housing Contention in the Sociopolitical Complexity of Structural Crises.- 2. The Structural Field of Contention Approach.- 3. The Structural Background of Housing Contention in Bucharest and Budapest.- 4. Housing Contention in Budapest.- 5. Housing Contention in Bucharest.- 6. Structural Fields of Contention in Housing Struggles. Comparative Lessons.- 7. Conclusion.