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City Unsilenced - Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy (Paperback)
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City Unsilenced - Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy (Paperback)
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What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have
in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements?
What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of
public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do
these resistances move from anti- to alter-politics? City
Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars
and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions, and
processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted
the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and
communities around the globe. They explore the commonalities and
specificities of urban resistance movements that respond to those
impacts. They focus on how such movements make use of and transform
the meanings and capacity of public space. They investigate their
ramifications in the continued practices of renewing democracies. A
broad collection of cases is presented and analyzed, including
Movimento Passe Livre (Brazil), Google Bus Blockades San Francisco
(USA), the Platform for Mortgage Affected People (PAH) (Spain), the
Piqueteros Movement (Argentina), Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong),
post-Occupy Gezi Park (Turkey), Sunflower Movement (Taiwan), Occupy
Oakland (USA), Syntagma Square (Greece), Researchers for Fair
Policing (New York), Urban Movement Congress (Poland), urban
activism (Berlin), 1DMX (Mexico), Miyashita Park Tokyo (Japan), 15M
Movement (Spain), and Train of Hope and protests against Academic
Ball in Vienna (Austria). By better understanding the processes and
implications of the recent urban resistances, City Unsilenced
contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the role and
significance of public space in the practice of lived democracy.
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