Contested Cities and Urban Activism

Chapter 2 Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy

Chapter 3 Housing Activism Against the Production of Ignorance: Some Lessons from the UK

Chapter 4 Urban Food Activism in Athens: Recovering More Autonomous Forms of Social Reproduction

Chapter 5 From Obedience to Resistance: Understanding Equal Rights to Education Movement as a Cultural Process

Chapter 6 Has Urban Cycling Improved in Hong Kong? A Sociopolitical Analysis of Cycling Advocacy Activists’ Contributions and Dilemmas

Chapter 7 Urban Activism in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Deprived and Discontented Citizens Demanding a More Just City

Chapter 8 From the Squatters’ Movement to Housing Activism in Spain: Identities, Tactics and Political Orientation

Chapter 9 Squatted Social Centres Activists and ‘Locally Unwanted Land Use’ Movements in Italy: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Case Studies

Chapter 10 ‘We Are Quality Citizens of Bangkok Too’: Urban Activism in Bangkok During the 2011 Floods

Chapter 11 The Evolution of Housing Rights Activism in South Korea

Chapter 12 The Squatters’ and Tenants’ Movement in Buenos Aires. A Vindication of Centrality and the Self-Managed Production of Space