Overview
- Provides a unique spatial and strategic approach to studies on urban movements and social activism
- Offers interdisciplinary appeal to researchers interested in social movements, urban studies, housing policies
- Presents theoretical, empirical knowledge on the role of housing precariousness, mobilisation in neoliberal cities
Part of the book series: Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias (AFCPAU)
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This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a class of housing dispossessed and, consequently, the features of its action in urban spaces. The book offers fresh analytical perspectives to understanding contemporary urban transformation via new spatial and strategic approaches. In striking detail, Carlotta Caciagli shows how space is a crucial variable in shaping the strategies that allow for the politicisation of a movement’s social base. She illustrates how new spatial configurations of urban space result from unique struggles of the recomposed collective subject. Most notably, three main conceptual tools are introduced to disentangle the relationship between the recomposed precarious class and space: “the spatial opportunity structure”, “configurations of strategies” and “educational sites of resistance”.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction, Background and Theoretical Framework
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Disentangling Space Through Strategies: Exploring Three Scales of Housing Movement Action
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Reviews
"In this theoretically original and empirically very well researched volume, Carlotta Caciagli addresses a main focus in the social science literature on the right to the city: the contentious politics around housing precarity. Developing a spatial approach to urban movements, her ethnographic research singles out the relational dynamics within and around squatted places, studied as educational sites of resistance. A very stimulating reading on a topic that is destined to become all the more central in post-pandemic times."
— Donatella Della Porta, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Director of Centre of Social Movements Studies, Director of the PhD Program in Political Science and Sociology, Scuola Normale Superiore
"Carlotta Caciagli has been able to write an impressive volume that makes both empirical and theoretical contributions to how the housing struggles seek to shape contemporary cities. This is a must read for scholars and students interested in urban activism, but it is also a very important work for activists themselves."
— Lorenzo Bosi, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore.
"Space remains a theoretical and empirical black box of the social movement literature. In this fascinating book, Carlotta Caciagli provides a compelling account of how space both constitutes housing activists and shapes their strategic options as they assert their right to the city. By doing this, Caciagli shows how marginalized urban residents can become a potent and disruptive political subject in increasingly unequal and neoliberal cities"— Wlater Nicholls, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, PhD Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Carlotta Caciagli is a Research Fellow in sociology at the department of Urban Studies, Polytechnic of Milan (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the Scuola Normale Superiore, in Florence. Her research interests include social movements, urban transformations, and socio-spatial inequalities. Her research has been published in international journals, such as Antipode, Critical Sociology and others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housing Movements in Rome
Book Subtitle: Resistance and Class
Authors: Carlotta Caciagli
Series Title: Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2738-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2737-8Published: 21 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2740-8Published: 22 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2738-5Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7063
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7071
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Public Policy