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Cities and Social Movements: Theorizing beyond the Right to the City

Social movements usually express themselves in cities, but cities have nevertheless been seen merely as a backdrop, as the empty canvas on which social movement.

Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in ... - Wiley

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements ...

12 Urban Dynamics and Social Movements - Oxford Academic

“Urban social movements” are, in this sense, transformative actors of the urban space, and contribute to the production of the “resources” available to citizens ...

Social Movements in Cities - Urban Studies - Oxford Bibliographies

This bibliography focuses on academic literature on the city as the locus and focus of social movements, aiming to provide a selection rather than a ...

Urban Social Movements and the Right to the City: An Introduction to ...

In cases presented in this special issue, urban activists play the role of challengers in their local policy fields, as they focus on contention ...

Urban social movements and local state capacity - ScienceDirect.com

This article examines whether and how state capacities contribute to movement-initiated policy change and associated delivery in the sphere of housing and land ...

Urban social movements and the reinvention of cities since the 1970s

By presenting themselves as environmentally friendly and socially progressive pioneers, cities have thus turned struggles for social and climate ...

Cities and Social Movements: Theorizing beyond the Right to the City

Claiming the right to the city beyond the city: the role of agrarian s... ... Are Social Movements Achieving the Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos,... ... Changing ...

the rise of suburban social movements and new urban commons in ...

In this article, we analyse the rise of urban social movements mobilizing for inclusion, influence, and social justice as important aspects of contemporary ...

1. Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements

It has been more than half a century since the notion of urban social movement was first introduced by Manuel Castells (1972) to describe collective action ...

Urban social movements and local state capacity

Abstract. Studies of social movements generally focus on the mechanisms through which movements affect the political will of states. Much of this research, in ...

The “Right to the City” in Urban Social Movements | 6 | Cities for Peo

The “Right to the City” in Urban Social Movements - 1.

Urban Movements - Sociology

Urban movements are social movements through which citizens attempt to achieve some control over their urban environment.

urban social movements and political - jstor

URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL. STRATEGY IN LATIN AMERICA *. Wil ... found in Latin American cities, so that we have a far too narrow definition of urban.

Urban Social Movements: Theory & Definition | Vaia

What Are Urban Social Movements? Urban social movements are collective efforts by groups of people in urban areas aimed at bringing about social change or ...

Cities and Social Movements - Urban Studies

Cities and Social Movements ... Urban Studies Online (USO) is the new web presence of Urban Studies journal. Privacy policy Cookies Sitemap. Back ...

Return of the child-friendly city? How social movements are ...

Children's autonomous movement and play in cities has steadily declined in recent decades. In turn, children and young people are increasingly ...

The Urban Question Revisited: The Importance of Cities for Social ...

What roles do cities play in the formation of general social movements? The 'urban question' has concerned observers of social movement over the years. From the ...

Social Movements and Urban Space - ARC Journals

briefly discusses the concepts of social movements and urban space to subsequently provide an analysis of the relationship between them. Starting from the view ...

A Review and Introduction to a Symposium on Urban Movements

Pruijt (2007: 5115) defined urban movements as "social movements through which citizens try to gain some control over the urban environment they live in, the ...