| Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Mayer, Margit (Editor), Thörn, Catharina (Editor), Thörn, Håkan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1349700436 ISBN-13: 9781349700431 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Human Geography - Political Science | World - European |
| Dewey: 300.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.98 lbs) 353 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
