| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Alternatives and futures |
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Alternatives and futures
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Housing in Movements, Cities in Change -- Chapter 2. A Spatial and Strategic Approach for Analysing Housing Movements -- Chapter 3. The Struggle for Housing in the Eternal City -- Chapter 4. Housing Mobilisations in Urban Space: The Political Struggle of Coordinamento -- Chapter 5. Housing Movements in the Neighbourhoods: The Social Function of the Coordinamento Squats -- Chapter 6. Housing Movements from the Inside: Squats as Educational Sites for Resistance -- Chapter 7. The City and Housing: Are We at a Standstill? |
| Summary |
This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a class of housing dispossessed and, consequently, the features of its action in urban spaces. The book offers fresh analytical perspectives to understanding contemporary urban transformation via new spatial and strategic approaches. In striking detail, Carlotta Caciagli shows how space is a crucial variable in shaping the strategies that allow for the politicisation of a movements social base. She illustrates how new spatial configurations of urban space result from unique struggles of the recomposed collective subject. Most notably, three main conceptual tools are introduced to disentangle the relationship between the recomposed precarious class and space: the spatial opportunity structure, configurations of strategies and educational sites of resistance. Carlotta Caciagli is a Research Fellow in sociology at the department of Urban Studies, Polytechnic of Milan (Italy) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Housing -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Rome
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Social movements -- Italy -- Rome
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Housing -- Political aspects
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Social movements
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Italy -- Rome
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811627385 |
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981162738X |
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