Full Description
At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation. Formally, social and political rights might not be abolished, yet factually they have become inaccessible for large parts of the population. The contributions gathered in this volume shed light on the clash between the perspectives of restructuring and reordering urban environments in the interest of investors and the manifold and innovative agencies of resistance that claim and stand up for the rights of urban citizenship. Renewed waves of urban transformation employ state coercion to foster the expulsion of poor and marginalised inhabitants from those urban spaces that attract interest from speculators. The intervention of state agencies triggers the work of hegemonic culture for reframing the housing issue and implementing moral and political legitimation, as well as legislation that restricts urban citizenship rights. The case studies of the volume comparatively show the different and sometimes contradictory patterns of these conflicts in Berlin, Sydney, Belfast, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, and İstanbul as well as in metropoles of Latin America and China. Innovative resistance agencies emerge that paint possible paths for the re-establishment of the right to the city as the core of urban citizenship.
Contents
Introduction: Logics of Urban Marginalisation and Resistance Part 1: Restructuring and Reordering Urban Citizenship 1. Violence and the Latin American City: Security and Open Citizenship in an Age of Disorder 2. National Policymaking, Contested Citizenship, and the City 3. Criminalising Activist Spaces: Privatisation, Public Order and Moral Order 4. Exclusionary Tales of (Non)Belonging: The Crisis of Urban and National Citizenship in the Netherlands Part 2: Urban Agency and Resistance 5. Strengthening Urban Citizenship in Berlin. Three Modes of Claiming and Expanding Rights, Resources and Recognition at the Local Level 6. Urban Changes and (Sub-)Citizenship in China: Emergence of the Subaltern-Diaosi Subjects 7. Resistance to Urban Restructuring in Turkey 8. The Promise and Practice of Urban Alliances
