Handbook on Urban Social Movements

在城市研究系列研究手册

Edited by Anna Domaradzka, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland and Pierre Hamel, Professor of Sociology, Université de Montréal, Canada

Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of both empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on understanding better how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world.

This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

‘Academic interest in urban social movements has surged around the world since the notion was first introduced in the early 1970s. This Handbook gathers novel as well as retrospective knowledge on (the outcomes of) these movements, and helps to reveal the phases, patterns, cycles and convergences shaping the plethora of struggles around the right to the city.’
– Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany

‘This Handbook brings to the fore the structural roots of urban conflicts and identities, in creative tension with human agency. Covering an admirably broad range of cases, not restricted to the West, and recognizing the temporal dimension inherent to both urban conflicts and theories on urban dynamics, Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel have edited a collection that will appeal to a broad readership across the social sciences.’
– Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy