UID:
almahu_9949384601702882
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
1317297431
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9781317297437
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9781317297420
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1317297423
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9781315647241
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1315647249
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9781317297413
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1317297415
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Shrinking Democracy and Urban Resistance: Toward an Emancipatory Politics of Public Space; PART 1 Mobilizing: Taking to the Streets!; 2 Between Street and Home: Mobility, Housing, and the 2013 Demonstrations in Brazil; 3 San Francisco's Tech-Led Gentrification: Public Space, Protest, and the Urban Commons; 4 Reconfiguring the Public Through Housing Rights Struggles in Spain; 5 Urban Resistance and Its Expression in Public Space: New Demands and Shared Meanings in Argentina
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PART 2 Reclaiming: From Public Space to the Political6 Reclaiming Public Space Movement in Hong Kong: From Occupy Queen's Pier to the Umbrella Movement; 7 Occupy Gezi Park: The Never-Ending Search for Democracy, Public Space, and Alternative City-Making; 8 The Right to the Sidewalk: The Struggle Over Broken Windows Policing, Young People, and NYC Streets; 9 Leveling the Playfield: Urban Movement in the Strategic Action Field of Urban Policy in Poland; PART 3 Negotiating: Urban Resistance and Emerging (Counter) Publics
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10 Athens' Syntagma Square Reloaded: From Staging Disagreement Towards Instituting Democratic Spaces11 Democracy, Occupy Legislature, and Taiwan's Sunflower Movement; 12 Shifting Struggles Over Public Space and Public Goods in Berlin: Urban Activism Between Protest and Participation; 13 Occupied Oakland, Past and Present: Land Action on the New Urban Frontier; PART 4 Contesting: Against Backlashes, Criminalization, Co-optation, and Anti-Pluralism; 14 Operation 1DMX and the Mexico City Commune: The Right to the City Beyond the Rule of Law in Public Spaces
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15 Public Space in a Parallel Universe: Conflict, Coexistence, and Co-optation Between Alternative Urbanisms and the Neoliberalizing City16 Miyashita Park, Tokyo: Contested Visions of Public Space in Contemporary Urban Japan; 17 Worlded Resistance as "Alter" Politics: Train of Hope and the Protest Against the Akademikerball in Vienna; Conclusions; 18 City Unsilenced: Spatial Grounds of Radical Democratization; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Hou, Jeffrey. City Unsilenced : Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. London : Taylor and Francis, ©2017 ISBN 9781138125803
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Geography
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315647241
