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Urban and Regional Social Movements
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Abstract
The multilingual and interdisciplinary book Urban and Regional Social Movements includes 21 texts that explore theoretical issues of movement processes or focus on examining movements which have been developed in Greece and internationally (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, India, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey).
It is a book that aims at being constantly “under construction” and as a consequence “alive”, up-to-date and dynamic. Hence the blog https://aoratespoleis.wordpress.com/was also created which will be regularly updated with new links, studies and news from various urban and regional movements around the world.
The book argues that urban and regional movements are interrelated as the regional movements are directly associated with the resistance to the looting and/or destruction of the natural commons in the name of serving a dominant uneven urban lifestyle. Thus, there is a feedback between the practices of social movements related to regional planning issues or simply to the exploitation and management of natural resources with these of urban movements.
During the last years the discussion on the urban and regional social movements has been enriched with the notion of the so-called Common Space as an interpretative approach to the recent protests, riots and uprisings shortly before and during the current global and local crisis. At the same time, the easier, faster and in a wider – often global – scale dissemination of the information about the burst and the demands of the movements, through the contemporary alternative networks of information and action, underlines the emergence of new forms of communication which will be most likely these of the movements of the 21st century.
Finally, the new urban and regional movements in which this book is interested are autonomous, massive and creative. They put themselves beyond a mere denial and confrontation to get in a collective creation and in radical changes of the space and everyday life.
Ευχαριστίες (pdf) | |
Acknowledgments (pdf) | |
Εισαγωγή (pdf) | |
Introduction (pdf) | |
Μέρος Ι: Κοινωνικά κινήματα πόλης/περιφέρειας στον ελληνικό χώρο Part I: Urban and regional social movements in Greece | |
1 | Collective identities versus social exclusion: the December 2008 Greek Youth Movement (pdf) Michalis Psimitis |
2 | Η υπεράσπιση του βιωμένου χώρου. Καθημερινότητα και κοινωνικά κινήματα πόλης/περιφέρειας (pdf) Μαρία Χαϊδοπούλου Βρυχέα |
3 | Θεωρητικά περάσματα από τα κινήματα για το «Δικαίωμα στην Πόλη» στα κινήματα κατάληψης του «Κοινού Χώρου»: παγκόσμια παραδείγματα και η περίπτωση της Ελλάδας την εποχή της κρίσης (pdf) Χαράλαμπος Τσαβδάρογλου |
4 | The commons in theory and practice: Self-management in contemporary Greece (pdf) Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Theodoros Karyotis |
5 | «Παίζουμε μπάλα για το ALTER;» ΜΜΕ και κινήσεις αλληλεγγύης στο χώρο της πόλης (pdf) Βασίλης Δαλκαβούκης, Μάνος Σπυριδάκης, Χαρά Κόκκινου |
6 | The urban social movement of Open Spaces in Athens, Greece (pdf) Elias Gianniris |
Μέρος ΙΙ: Κοινωνικά κινήματα πόλης/περιφέρειας στο διεθνή χώρο Part II: Urban and regional social movements in the world | |
7 | Una década de fábricas recuperadas. Reinventar la vida desde el trabajo (pdf) Raúl Zibechi |
8 | El Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto (pdf) Lucia Scromov |
9 | Συλλογικές Αντιστάσεις στη μεγαλούπολη του Σάο Πάουλο (pdf) Κρίτων Ηλιόπουλος |
10 | Mujeres, territorio y movimientos sociales. Un análisis del caso de Atenco (pdf) Paula Soto Villagrán, Karla Helena Guzmán |
11 | Movimientos sociales en México y el problema de la vivienda: De la tibieza al olvido (pdf) Beatriz García Peralta Nieto |
12 | Il diritto alla città e la pianificazione urbanistica. Proposte per Firenze, e non solo (pdf) Marvi Maggio |
13 | La rivendicazione del welfare space a Napoli (pdf) Cristina Mattiucci, Roberta Nicchia |
14 | Η διαμαρτυρία ενάντια στην Τρίτη Γέφυρα του Βοσπόρου: Κομμάτι μιας Πόλης, κομμάτι ενός κινήματος (pdf) Αιμιλία Βουλβούλη |
15 | We are hungry in three languages: the February urban social movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina (pdf) Ana Vilenica, Dražen Crnomat |
16 | Mouvement social, une notion désuète? Les nouvelles formes de l’action collective et le renouvellement des perspectives théoriques (pdf) Pierre Hamel |
17 | A Provocation on Social Kinetics (pdf) Myrto Tsilimpounidi |
18 | Des semences à la liberté, et la tentative d’institutionnalisation des résistances. Sur deux mouvements paysans indiens qui placent les semences au cœur de leur lutte (pdf) Maddalena Gretel Cammelli |
19 | Rebelión en la Amazonia brasileña (pdf) Raúl Zibechi |
20 | El Zapatismo: Una revolución de las formas de comunicación política. Su utopía viable: la formación de una comunidad dialógica (pdf) Alberto Betancourt Posada |
21 | Derecho a la ciudad y movimientos sociales contemporáneos – Por un movimiento social urbano-regional… ¿poético? Desde Nezahualcoyotl al mundo (pdf) Christy (Chryssanthi) Petropoulou |