Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe
Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe by Margit Mayer, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137504927 | 353 Pages | PDF | 15.1 MB
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137504927 | 353 Pages | PDF | 15.1 MB
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.