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This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world. Through close ethnographic study the authors illuminate the strategies adopted for everyday life that have evolved in response to the neoliberal managing of cities, by which the city is shaped by market forces rather than by the needs of its inhabitants. In the light of many urban movements, uprisings and forms of resistance observed in such diverse countries as Brazil, Turkey, the USA, Greece and Spain since the Arab uprising of 2011, this collection makes an original contribution to urban sociology and social geography by developing a spatial approach to understanding how the city shapes identities and perceptions of (in)justice. This innovative volume will be of interest to readers across the social sciences.
List of contents
Acknowledgements.- Introduction; Gülçin Erdi & Yildirim Sentürk.- Chapter 1: Facing Commodification: Subaltern Tactics In A Working-Class Tokyo Neighbourhood; Nicolas Pinet.- Chapter 2: Coping With The Threat Of Evictions: Commercialisation Of Slum Development And Local Power Play In Ahmedabad, India; Yutaka Sato.- Chapter 3: Refounded Neighbourhoods And Spatial Justice: The Inhabitants' Attitudes Towards Urban Segregation; Bruno Cousin.- Chapter 4: Urban Rent Speculation, Uncertainty And Unknowns As Strategy And Resistance In Istanbul's Housing Market; Ebru Soytemel.- Chapter 5: Challenging Neoliberal Nationalism In Urban Space: Transgressive Practices And Spaces In Skopje; Ophélie Véron.- Chapter 6: Neighbourhood Resistance And Gecekondu Women In Ankara; Gülçin Erdi.- Chapter 7: Turkish/Kurdish Women's Migrant Steps In London: Public Walks, Personal Returns; Göze Saner & Saniye Dedeoglu.- Chapter 8: Homeless Survival And Resistance In The Neoliberal City; Chantal Butchinsky.- Chapter9: Managing The Problems Of The Cities: Doing Business While Governing Istanbul; Yildirim Sentürk.- Chapter 10: Urban Resilience And Resistance In The Neoliberal City: The Cases Of Comunidade Coliseu (São Paulo, Brazil) And Es.Col.A, Fontinha (Porto, Portugal) ; Dan Rodrigues Levy & Cláudia Barbosa Rodrigues.- Index.
About the author
Gülçin Erdi is CNRS Research Fellow at the CITERES (Cities, Territories, Environment and Society) centre, France. Previously a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, her research focuses on the analysis of contentious politics, spatial dimensions of social movements, and resistance inside the city.
Y¿ld¿r¿m ¿entürk is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey. His research interests include city and social space, transnational studies, neoliberalism, labour and qualitative research, while his current research focuses on work life in Istanbul.
Summary
This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world. Through close ethnographic study the authors illuminate the strategies adopted for everyday life that have evolved in response to the neoliberal managing of cities, by which the city is shaped by market forces rather than by the needs of its inhabitants. In the light of many urban movements, uprisings and forms of resistance observed in such diverse countries as Brazil, Turkey, the USA, Greece and Spain since the Arab uprising of 2011, this collection makes an original contribution to urban sociology and social geography by developing a spatial approach to understanding how the city shapes identities and perceptions of (in)justice. This innovative volume will be of interest to readers across the social sciences.
