Making a Scene - Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden (Paperback)

In the three largest cities in Sweden, social movement "scenes"-networks of social movement actors and the places they inhabit-challenge threats such as gentrification. The geography of the built environment influences their ability to lay claim to urban space and to local political processes. In Making a Scene, Kimberly Creasap emphasizes that it is the centrality, concentration, and visibility of these scenes that make them most effective. Whereas some scenes become embedded as part of everyday life-as in Malmoe-in contrast, scenes in Goeteborg and Stockholm often fail to become part of the fabric of urban neighborhoods. Creasap investigates key spaces for scenes, from abandoned industrial areas and punk clubs to street festivals, bookstores, and social centers, to show how activists create sites and develop structures of resistance that are anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-gentrification, queer, and feminist. She also charts the relationship between scenes and city spaces to show these autonomous social movements create their own cultural landscapes. Making a Scene encourages critical thinking about spatiality and place in the sociology of social movements and the role of social movements as important actors in urban development.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Kimberly A. Creasap
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-2088-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4399-2088-5
Barcode:	9781439920886

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