scholarly journals Urban social movements in a small town: the case of “Aktywne Giżycko”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Wojciech Bedynski ◽  
Justyna Godz ◽  
Wojciech Łukowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Urban Movements ◽  
The City

Studies about urban social movements in Poland concentrate on major cities like Warsaw or other big financial and educational centers. Out of 40 member organizations of the Congress of Urban Movements (as on 31 July 2018)[1], only 2 come from a town of the population under 50 thousand[2]. Small provincial towns experiencing depopulation caused by strong emigration to metropolises have another notion of their “right to the city” feelings. This article examines the case of Aktywne Giżycko (Active Giżycko), an association from a 30 thousand Masurian town. It aims to answer the question why this “right to the city” organization emerged in a small town, while in Poland it is still mainly domain of big agglomerations. The investigation was based on a 3-year long research comprising biographical interviews, participating observations, archive studies and local press surveys.  

scholarly journals What kind of commons are the urban commons?

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (66) ◽  
pp. 122-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Narotzky
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Right ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
The City

Optimism of the will permeates this article, which builds on Lefebvre’s idea of The Right to the City ([1968] 2009) and its more recent revival by Harvey, specially in his last work where, after a period of scepticism regarding recent urban social movements as potentially politically transformative, he seems to vindicate their potential as part of a class understanding of these movements (2012).

Urban Policy, Social Movements, and the Right to the City in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Friendly
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Reform ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Political Left ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Brazilian urban social movements have played a key role in bringing about change in urban policy since the 1980s and in light of the widespread protests across the country in June 2013. This insurgency and the urban reform movement of the 1980s and 1990s exemplify waves of mobilization and demobilization, signaling positive change at the level of praxis. More recent events have highlighted challenges for Brazil’s political left. Os movimentos sociais urbanos brasileiros tem desempenhado um papel chave na mudança da política urbana desde os anos 80 e em vista dos mega-protestos espalhados pelo país de junho de 2013. Esta insurgência e o movimento de reforma urbana dos anos 80 e 90 exemplificam ondas de mobilização e desmobilização, sinalizando mudanças positivas ao nível da praxis. Eventos mais recentes têm destacado desafios para a esquerda política brasileira.

scholarly journals MORADIA NO SÉCULO XXI: ativo financeiro ou direito social?

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 839
Author(s):  
Sávio Silva de Almeida ◽  
Cristina Pereira de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

O presente ensaio tem como objetivo analisar o aprofundamento da mercantilização do direito à moradia, sob a hegemonia neoliberal. A metodologia empregada envolve uma extensa revisão de literatura com vistas a contribuir com os estudos sobre a urbanização, movimentos sociais urbanos, direito à cidade e à moradia digna. Na primeira seção, o texto trata do processo de urbanização sob o capitalismo. Na segunda seção, aborda as lutas promovidas no âmbito jurídico pelos movimentos sociais brasileiros que construíram a moradia como um direito humano social. Na terceira seção, apresentauma reflexão sobre a financeirização da moradia. Conclui que o aprofundamento da financeirização da moradia representa o novo paradigma da urbanização capitalista a ser superado pelos movimentos sociais, para que o Estado possa atuar no sentido de garantir a moradia como um direito social.Palavras-chave: Urbanização. Direito à moradia. Neoliberalismo.HOUSING IN THE 21th CENTURY? Financial asset or social right?AbstractThe present essay aims to analyze the deepening of the commodification of the right to housing, under neoliberal hegemony. The methodology involves an extensive literature review that approach the proposed theme intending to contribute to studies on urbanization, urban social movements, right to the city and right to housing. In the first section, the text seeks to reflect on the process of urbanization under capitalism. In the second, brings to reflect on the struggles promoted in the legal sphere by the Brazilian social movements that built housing as a social human right. In the third, the text presents a reflection on the financialization of housing. It concludes that the deepening of the financialization of housing represents the new paradigm of capitalist urbanization to be overcome by social movements, so that the State can act in the sense of guaranteeing housing as a social right.Keywords: Urbanization. Right to housing. Neoliberalism.

Social Movements in Cities

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

How social movements are rooted in specific places has been of interest to scholars of collective action, as well as geography and sociology generally. Social movements, in general, are characterized by the sustained mobilization of people sharing social or political aims. The characteristics of cities, as distinct from rural geographies, play a role in the development of urban social movements, offering concentrations and a diversity of people, resources, and power. Academic literature on the topic examines how cities are conducive to, or constrain, the development of social movements. Although the term urban social movement first appears in scholarly literature in 1972, cities have been key sites of contention at least since industrialization in the 1800s. Cities remained prominent throughout the rise of new social movements and transnational summit protests. In more recent decades, networked movements such as Occupy have renewed questions about inequalities and the right to the city. In short, cities are both a prominent focus and locus of contention. This bibliography focuses on academic literature on the city as the locus and focus of social movements, aiming to provide a selection rather than a comprehensive list. Other, not specifically urban aspects of transnational and domestic social movements are covered in other Oxford Bibliographies articles. This bibliography pays particular attention to works which impacted debates in the field, including contrasting perspectives, as well as diverse methodological approaches.

scholarly journals Derecho a la ciudad y experiencia educativa popular

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (45) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilín López Fittipaldi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Collective Production ◽  
The City ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

En el presente artículo retomamos los avances de un proceso de investigación antropológica en el campo de los movimientos sociales urbanos. Nuestro interés se ubica en torno a experiencias socioeducativas que emergen como parte de organizaciones políticas y/o movimientos sociales en entramados barriales de pobreza urbana y desigualdad social.Basamos nuestro análisis en la información empírica recabada a través del trabajo de campo etnográfico, que incluyó observaciones, entrevistas y relevamiento documental. Enfocamos la creación de una escuela para jóvenes y adultos en un barrio periférico de la ciudad de Rosario, y proponemos comprender la misma como parte de la lucha por el derecho a la ciudad que impulsó el movimiento social. Sostenemos que, en vinculación a esta demanda, se desplegaron procesos de producción colectiva del espacio urbano, en los que se inscribe la puesta en marcha de la experiencia escolar.Palabras claves: Movimientos sociales urbanos. Experiencias socio-educativas. Pobreza urbana. Producción colectiva del espacio urbano. Right to the city and popular educational experienceAbstract In this article we revisit our advances in an anthropological investigation process in the field of urban social movements. Our interest is located around socio-educational experiences witch emerge as part of political organizations and/or social movements in urban poverty and social inequality neighbourhood frameworks.We base our analysis on empirical information collected by means of ethnographic field work, including observations, interviews and documentary research. We focus the creation of a school for youth and adults in a peripheral neighbourhood of Rosario city, and propose to understand it as part of the struggle for the right to the city that de social movement undertook. We assert that, related with this claim, collective production of urban space processes unfold, in which the lunch of the scholar experience is included.       Keywords: Urban social movements. Socio-educational experiences. Urban poverty. Collective production of urban space.  

Urban Social Movements in ‘Weak’ Civil Societies: The Right to the City and Cosmopolitan Activism in Southern Europe

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1179-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Leontidou
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
The South ◽  
State Planning ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Civil Societies

The transition from fast spontaneous urbanisation in southern Europe, with popular squatting as a form of civil disobedience, to ‘new social movements’ (NSMs) for democratic globalisation in cities, is taking place in the context of a broader transition. In the 20th century, there were unstable politics, civil wars and also still dictatorships in the south, which contributed in a north—south divide in Europe, engulfing civil societies, the welfare state, planning and grassroots mobilisations for a ‘right to the city’. This paper focuses on social transformation during the 21st century and points to three directions. First, it explores the nature of several NSMs as urban social movements (USMs) organised by loosely networked cosmopolitan collectivities, social centres and flâneur activists demanding a ‘right to the city’, and interprets this with reference to globalisation, democratisation and the Europeanisation of southern civil societies. Secondly, it unveils innovative forms of ‘urban’ mobilisations in the south, influencing the rest of the Europe: squatting in the past, social centres and the ESF (both starting in Italy) at present. Thirdly, it traces transformations of USMs between two centuries and argues about the deconstruction of the north—south divide in Europe with regard to movements and definitions of the ‘right to the city’. Mediterranean USMs have offered new insights and have broadened geographical imaginations in Europe.

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