Full Description
The past decades have seen significant urban insurrections worldwide, and this volume analyzes some of them from an anthropological perspective; it argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally informed and deeply embedded in local and popular histories, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its precise context in the global capitalist transformation. The book examines cases of mobilization across the globe, and employs a Marxian class framework, open to the diverse and multi-scalar dynamics of urban politics, especially struggles for spatial justice.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Introductory Thoughts on Anthropology and Urban Insurrection
Don Kalb and Massimiliano Mollona
Chapter 1. Confronting 'Aggressive Urbanism': Frictional Heterogeneity in the 'Gezi Protests' of Turkey
Mehmet Barış Kuymulu
Chapter 2. Reconfiguring 'the People'? Notes on the 2014 Winter Revolt in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stef Jansen
Chapter 3. 'Sofia 2014, Feels Like 1989': Abstention from the Protests and Declining Market Teleology in Bulgaria
Dimitra Kofti
Chapter 4. Spontaneity, Antagonism and the Moral Politics of Outrage: Urban Protest in Argentina since 2001
Sian Lazar
Chapter 5. 'Neither Left nor Right': Crisis, Wane of Politics, and Struggles for Sovereignty
Giacomo Loperfido
Chapter 6. Rebels and Revolutionaries: Urban Mobilizations of the Kamaiya Movement in Post-Conflict Western Nepal
Michael Peter Hoffmann
Chapter 7. The Brazilian 'June' Revolution: Urban Struggles, Composite Articulations and New Class Analysis
Massimiliano Mollona
Chapter 8. Contradictions of the 'Common Man': A Realist Approach to India's Aam Aadmi Party
Luisa Steur
Chapter 9. Re-envisioning Social Movements in the Global City: from Fordism to the Neoliberal Era
Ida Susser
Afterword: Notes for a Contemporary Urban Class Analysis
Massimiliano Mollona and Don Kalb
Index
