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City unsilenced : urban resistance and public space in the age of shrinking democracy / edited by Jeffrey Hou and Sabine Knierbein.
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English
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New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
©2017
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xvii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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HT153 .C574 2017
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Public spaces
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Political aspects
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Urbanization
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City dwellers
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Political activity
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Protest movements
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Hou, Jeffrey, 1967-
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Knierbein, Sabine, 1977-
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Hou, Jeffrey, 1967-
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Knierbein, Sabine, 1977-
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Summary note
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. Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Shrinking Democracy and Urban Resistance: Toward an Emancipatory Politics of Public Space / Jeffrey Hou, Sabine Knierbein
Mobilizing: Taking to the Streets!
Between Street and Home: Mobility, Housing, and the 2013 Demonstrations in Brazil / Luciana da Silva Andrade, Joao Paulo Huguenin
San Francisco's Tech-Led Gentrification: Public Space, Protest, and the Urban Commons / Manissa M. Maharawal
Reconfiguring the Public Through Housing Rights Struggles in Spain / Melissa García-Lamarca
Urban Resistance and Its Expression in Public Space: New Demands and Shared Meanings in Argentina / Paula Rosa, Regina Vidosa
Reclaiming: From Public Space to the Political
Reclaiming Public Space Movement in Hong Kong: From Occupy Queen's Pier to the Umbrella Movement / Yun-Chung Chen, Mirana M. Szeto
Occupy Gezi Park: The Never-Ending Search for Democracy, Public Space, and Alternative City-Making / Burcu Yigit Turan
The Right to the Sidewalk: The Struggle Over Broken Windows Policing, Young People, and NYC Streets / Caitlin Cahill, Brett G. Stoudt, Amanda Matles, Kimberly Belmonte, Selma Djokovic, Jose Lopez, Adilka Pimentel, Maria Elena Torre, Darian X
Leveling the Play field: Urban Movement in the Strategic Action Field of Urban Policy in Poland / Anna Domaradzka
Negotiating: Urban Resistance and Emerging (Counter) Publics
Athens,' Syntagma Square Reloaded: From Staging Disagreement Towards Instituting Democratic Spaces / Maria Kaika, Lazaros Karaliotas
Democracy, Occupy Legislature, and Taiwan's Sunflower Movement / Ketty W. Chen
Shifting Struggles Over Public Space and Public Goods in Berlin: Urban Activism Between Protest and Participation / Henrik Lebuhn
Occupied Oakland, Past and Present: Land Action on the New Urban Frontier / Marcus Owens, Christina Antiporda
Contesting: Against Backlashes, Criminalization, Co-optation, and Anti-Pluralism
Operation 1DMX and the Mexico City Commune: The Right to the City Beyond the Rule of Law in Public Spaces / Silvano De la Llata
Public Space in a Parallel Universe: Conflict, Coexistence, and Co-optation Between Alternative Urbanisms and the Neoliberalizing City / Elina Kränzle
Miyashita Park, Tokyo: Contested Visions of Public Space in Contemporary Urban Japan / Christian Dimmer
Worlded Resistance as "Alter" Politics: Train of Hope and the Protest Against the Akademikerball in Vienna / Sabine Knierbein, Angelika Gabauer
Conclusions
City Unsilenced: Spatial Grounds of Radical Democratization / Sabine Knierbein, Jeffrey Hou.
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ISBN
9781138125803 ((hardcover))
1138125806 ((hardcover))
9781138125810 ((paperback))
1138125814 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017001672
OCLC
957744081
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