Urban Uprisings

Part I. Urban Uprisings, Social Movements and Neoliberal Urbanism

1. Re-Thinking Urban Social Movements, ‘Riots’ and Uprisings: An Introduction
Håkan Thörn, Margit Mayer, Catharina Thörn

2. Neoliberal Urbanism and Uprisings Across Europe
Margit Mayer

Part II. Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe

3. Rage and Fire in the French Banlieues

Mustafa Dikeç

4. The Neoliberal State and the 2011 English Riots: A Class Analysis
Tom Slater

5. The Stockholm Uprising in Context: Urban Social Movements in the Rise and Demise of the Swedish Welfare-State City
Ove Sernhede, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn

6. Last Stand or Renewed Urban Activism? The Copenhagen Youth House Uprising, 2007
Anders Lund Hansen, René Karpantschof

7. Right to the City—and Beyond: The Topographies of Urban Social Movements in Hamburg
Peter Birke

8. Athens’ Spatial Contract and the Neoliberal Omni-Present
Antonis Vradis

9. Between Autonomy and Hybridity: Urban Struggles Within the 15M Movement in Spain
Miguel A. Martínez López

10. Gezi Protests and Beyond: Urban Resistance Under Neoliberal Urbanism in Turkey
Gülçin Erdi Lelandais

11. Neoliberal Post-Socialist Urban Transformation and the Emergence of Urban Social Movements in Poland
Dominika V. Polanska

12. Afterword: Spatialized Social Inequalities and Urban Collective Action
Margit Mayer, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Human Geography, European Politics