scholarly journals Rebuilding the City Stockholm and Urban Social Movements

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Stahre
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
The City

Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Diesselhorst
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
City Government ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

scholarly journals Urban social movements in South Africa today: Its meaning for theological education and the church

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. De Beer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for theological education and the church. Departing from a firm conviction that such movements are irruptions of the poor, in the way described by Gustavo Gutierrez and others, and that movements of liberation residing with, or in a commitment to, the poor, should be the locus of our theological reflection, this article suggests that there is much to be gained from the praxis of urban social movements, in disrupting, informing and shaping the praxis of both theological education and the church. I will give special consideration to Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Reclaim the City campaign in Cape Town, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town, and Abahlali baseMjondolo based in Durban, considering these as some of the most important and exciting examples of liberatory praxes in South Africa today. I argue that theological education and educators, and a church committed to the Jesus who came ‘to liberate the oppressed’, ignore these irruptions of the Spirit at our own peril.

Urban Social Movements: The City after Castells

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 838
Author(s):  
John R. Logan ◽  
Stuart Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Apontamentos sobre a produção do espaço de conflito na luta pela cidade

GeoTextos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Valdoski Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
The City

Este artigo visa compreender uma das contradições inerentes à crise urbana, a relação entre dominação e apropriação do espaço à luz das práticas dos movimentos sociais urbanos que produzem o espaço de conflito. Compreendemos este espaço como aquele onde a exigência de um encontro em torno de um conflito proporciona ações que vão desmistificando discursos e ações de sujeitos que buscam o domínio do espaço. O espaço de conflito é considerado como coletivo, espaço que nega o exercício da cidadania e da participação somente como discurso, revelando as reivindicações dos moradores. Assim, a hipótese se sustenta na ideia de que a resistência pode produzir o espaço de conflito. Por isso, a experiência de luta de moradores da Favela Maria Cursi, na cidade de São Paulo, em conjunto com o Movimento de Defesa dos Favelados, revela essa produção, já que, para resistir às reiteradas estratégias de expulsão de uma área valorizada de um bairro periférico, tiveram que promover atividades nas quais politizavam o vivido a partir de confrontos diretos com os representantes do Estado e também com os demais setores interessados na expropriação. Abstract NOTES ON THE PRODUCTION OF A SPACE OF CONFLICT IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CITY The paper aims to understand one of the contradictions inherent in the urban crisis – that between domination and appropriation of space – against the backdrop of the practices of urban social movements that produce a space of conflict. We understand space of conflict as that where an encounter brought about by conflict gives rise to actions that demystify discourses and actions carried out by agents that seek to dominate space. The space of conflict is collective, insofar as it does not reduce citizenship and participation to discourse, but instead promotes the demands made by residents. Our hypothesis thus rests on the idea that resistance can produce a space of conflict. For this reason, the struggle waged by the residents of Maria Cursi (a slum in the city of São Paulo) together with the Movement in Defense of Slum Dwellers reveals the production of such space. In order to counteract the strategies for removing the slum from high value land in São Paulo’s peripheral space, these residents had to promote activities that politicized lived space in their battle against policymakers and others interested in displacement.

scholarly journals What kind of commons are the urban commons?

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (66) ◽  
pp. 122-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Narotzky
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Right ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
The City

Optimism of the will permeates this article, which builds on Lefebvre’s idea of The Right to the City ([1968] 2009) and its more recent revival by Harvey, specially in his last work where, after a period of scepticism regarding recent urban social movements as potentially politically transformative, he seems to vindicate their potential as part of a class understanding of these movements (2012).

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