Overview
- Provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south
- Advances understanding of urban activism beyond the established social movement and global north focus of urban studies
- Considers the diversity of urban action and connects the shaping of urban activism to the social, political and cultural environments at various levels – local, regional, national and global
Part of the book series: The Contemporary City (TCONTCI)
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This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.
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Keywords
- Urban Activism in the Global South
- Local Specificity and Urban Activism
- Urban Activism in Transitional Economies
- China’s Changing Governance and Social Activism
- Rights to Education in Cities
- Urban Studies and Health
- Social Movement and Nuclear Power in Taiwan
- Housing Activism and Collective Action
- City Squatting and Urban Action
- Tourism and Contested Urbanisation
- urban geography and urbanism
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Changing Forms of Urban Activism
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Urban Activism—Activists and Their Networks
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Urban Activism—Citizenship and Right to the City
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Reviews
“A fantastic collection of authors and chapters updating classic theoretical frameworks to the complex and variegated nature of collective action in cities around the world.” (Sara Gonzalez, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK)
“This book deals with urban activism from a truly international and non-Eurocentric perspective; for this reason, it is both an unusual and highly valuable contribution.” (Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Professor of Geography, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ngai Ming Yip is Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on housing activism as well as movement networks of homeowner activists in China and has published an edited volume entitled Neighbourhood Governance in Urban China (2014).
Miguel Angel Martínez López is Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology at the IBF (Institute for Housing and Urban Research), Uppsala University, Sweden. A sociologist and political scientist, his academic work deals with urban movements, anti-neoliberal struggles, autonomous social movements, citizen participation, urban sociology and urban politics.
Xiaoyi Sun is an Assistant Professor at School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China. Her research focuses on environmental politics, contentious politics, and urban governance in China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contested Cities and Urban Activism
Editors: Ngai Ming Yip, Miguel Angel Martínez López, Xiaoyi Sun
Series Title: The Contemporary City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1730-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1729-3Published: 24 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4671-2Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1730-9Published: 13 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5463
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5471
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 313
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Environment Studies