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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 - Donatella della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, Sarah Schilliger and Helge Schwiertz
1. Solidarity Neighborhoods in Berlin and Hamburg: Building Relations of Care, Communities, and Commons Around Local Collective Spaces and Struggles - Mouna Maaroufi
2. Inhabiting the City: Solidarity Practices in Urban Mobilizations in Italy - Angela Adami, Joana Lilli Hofstetter and Donatella della Porta
3. Solidarity Networks and Spaces of Hope: Refugee Housing in Ljubljana - Anteja Tomašič and Mojca Pajnik
4. Changing Activism: Migrant Rights Movements, Municipalities and the Danish 'Paradigm Shift' - Franz Bernhardt, Mashudu Salifu, Paola Buconjic and Martin Bak Jørgensen
5. Claiming and Commoning Care in the City: Solidarity Practices in/through the Feminist Strike Movement in Bern and Zurich - Sarah Schilliger
6. 'From Below' is Not Enough: Housing Activism(s) and Different Municipal Reactions to the Danish 'Ghetto Law' - Franz Bernhardt, Mashudu Salifu, Paola Buconjic and Martin Bak Jørgensen
7. From Collective Solutions to Socialization? Community and Neighbourhood Organizing for "Housing for All" - Mouna Maaroufi and Helge Schwiertz
8. "Commoning" Infrastructure Sustenance and the Routinisation of Horisontalism: Lessons in Maintaining a Political Life in a Deindustrialised City - Marko Ribać
9. Local Care Infrastructures from below Challenging Structural Carelessness - Natascha Flückiger, Mouna Maaroufi and Sarah Schilliger
10. Conclusion - Donatella della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, Sarah Schilliger and Helge Schwiertz
