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How are urban social movements engaging in local politics to tackle the multiple crises in Europe?
This timely volume explores how grassroots actors across eleven European cities forge new forms of solidarity and enact citizenship at local scales. Drawing on rich ethnographic research, it examines how activists and communities challenge neoliberal isolation and marginalization through collective practices, ranging from community kitchens to tenant organizing. Bridging research on migration, housing and care, the book investigates how everyday urban struggles are reshaping political practices and reimagining democracy. It offers essential insights for scholars and practitioners of social justice, citizenship and urban politics.
Contents
Introduction: Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity Through Urban Struggles - Helge Schwiertz, Donatella Della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, and Sarah Schilliger
1. Politics Grounded in the Everyday: Transversal Solidarity Across Migrant, Housing, and Social Justice Struggles in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg - Mouna Maaroufi and Helge Schwiertz
2. Inhabiting the City: Solidarity Practices in Urban Mobilizations in Italy - Donatella Della Porta, Angela Adami, Joana Lilli Hofstetter
3. 'Not Just Mobilised, but Organised': Place-Based Politics, Spillover Activism and Building Solidarities in a 'Hard Ghetto' Neighbourhood in Denmark - Franz Bernhardt
4. Solidarity Networks and Spaces of Hope: Refugee Housing in Ljubljana - Anteja Tomašič, Mojca Pajnik
5. Changing Activism: Migrant Rights Initiatives, Municipalities, and the 2019 Danish 'Paradigm Shift' - Franz Bernhardt, Mashudu Salifu, Paola Buconjic, Martin Bak Jørgensen
6. Infrastructuring Care in the City: Solidarity Practices In/Through the Feminist Strike Movement in Switzerland - Sarah Schilliger
7. Community Kitchens in Bern and Berlin: Building Local Care Infrastructures from Below - Natascha Flückiger, Mouna Maaroufi, Sarah Schilliger
8. Reviving Legacies in Health Movements: Practices of Care and the Commoning of Health Provision in Italian Cities - Angela Adami, Donatella Della Porta, Carla Mannino
9. 'Commoning' Infrastructure Sustenance and the Routinisation of Horisontalism: Lessons in Maintaining a Political Life in a Deindustrialised Town - Marko Ribać
Conclusions: Urban Struggles as a Catalyst for Social Change - Helge Schwiertz, Donatella Della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, and Sarah Schilliger
