Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cities and Society
Release date:	July 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Kerstin Jacobsson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	322
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-3446-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
LSN:	1-4724-3446-3
Barcode:	9781472434463

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