Urban Uprisings : Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe - Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
1st Edition 2016
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781349700431 |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pub date: | 31 May 2021 |
Edition: | 1st Edition 2016 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 353 |
Weight: | 486g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |