Urban Movements In Central And Eastern Europe Grassroots In The City

Author : Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317003845
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe written by Kerstin Jacobsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781472434470
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Movements in Central and Eastern Europe Grassroots in the City written by Kerstin Jacobsson and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe, 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.

Author : Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317003853
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe written by Kerstin Jacobsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Pierre Hamel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134542399
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Movements in a Globalising World written by Pierre Hamel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection deals with the transformation of urban movements in these new social, economic and political environments.

Author : Piotr P. Płucienniczak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recenzja: "Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe" written by Piotr P. Płucienniczak and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ngai Ming Yip
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811317305
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Cities and Urban Activism written by Ngai Ming Yip and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.

Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520056176
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City and the Grassroots written by Manuel Castells and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kiril Stanilov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140206053X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-Socialist City written by Kiril Stanilov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.

Author : Tsypylma Darieva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869227399
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia written by Tsypylma Darieva and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of grassroots initiatives in urban spaces across Eastern Europe and Eurasia in recent decades, Urban Activism in Eurasia approaches central questions: what are distinctive features and the dynamic of urban activism in contemporary post-Soviet cities? What are the strategies and practices of an urban civic engagement that evolves on a micro level and in larger scale processes? A variety of group and individuals claims to the city space and its development, finding their own ways to initiate local urban change. The volume challenges the prevailing simplistic view of weak, passive and scared citizens in Eastern European and Eurasian cities, which are often seen to be predominantly shaped by neo-liberal and authoritarian structures. Instead, we argue for the vibrant diversity and dynamism in the contemporary urban civic activism in Eurasia. Employing diverse sources such as intriguing photographs, interviews with local activists and scholarly reports from the field of anthropology, planning, architecture, political sciences and sociology, the edited volume explores the creativity and novelty of Eurasian urban grass roots activism. Drawing on these multi-disciplinary perspectives, the volume hopes to overcome distances and trigger dialogues in several respects and realms: among the interested public, activists, 'urban decision makers' and scholars in East and West, North and South alike.

Author : Maja Grabkowska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000786382
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good written by Maja Grabkowska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly complex in countries with experience of communism. In cities east of the former Iron Curtain, the once ideologically imposed principle of common good became gradually devalued throughout the 20th century due to the lack of citizen agency, only to reappear as a response to the ills of neoliberal capitalism around the 2010s. The book reveals how the idea of urban common good has been reconstructed and practiced in European cities after socialism. It documents the paradigm shift from city as a communal infrastructure to city as a commodity, which lately has been challenged by the approach to city as a commons. These transformations have been traced and analysed within several urban themes: housing, public transport, green infrastructure, public space, urban regeneration, and spatial justice. A special focus is on the changes in the public discourse in Poland and the perspectives of key urban stakeholders in three case-study cities of Gdańsk, Kraków, and Łódź. The findings point to the need for drawing from best practices of the socialist legacy, with its celebration of the common. At the same time, they call for learning from the mistakes of the recent past, in which the opportunity for citizen empowerment has been unseized. The book is intended for researchers, academics, and postgraduates, as well as practitioners and anyone interested in rediscovering the inherent potential of urban commonality. It will appeal to those working in human geography, spatial planning, and other areas of urban studies.