Urban Uprisings - Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Release date:	May 2021
First published:	2016
Editors:	Margit Mayer • Catharina Thoern • Hakan Thoern
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	353
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-70043-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	1-349-70043-6
Barcode:	9781349700431

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