| Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe Contributor(s): Jacobsson, Kerstin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472434463 ISBN-13: 9781472434463 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 2015002217 |
| Series: Cities and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.39 lbs) 322 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect the diversity and complexity of post-socialist urban movements, capturing also the extent to which the laboratory of urban politics is richly illustrative of the complex nexus of state-society-market relations within post-socialism. The grassroots campaigns and actions reflect the new social cleavages and increased polarisation as a consequence of neoliberal urbanisation and global integration, as well as the transformation of state power and authority in the region. Studying urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe is instructive for urban movements scholars generally, as it forces us to acknowledge the variety of forms that contention can take and the usefulness of embedding the study of urban movements within a larger understanding of civil society. |
