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- Apostolopoulou, E., et al.
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Political Ecology. - 1073-0451. ; 29, s. 143-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal community-led initiatives or/and social movements which aim to generate novel, democratic, socially, spatially and environmentally just solutions to address social needs that are otherwise ignored or marginalised To address our research questions, we draw on the work of Cindi Katz to explore how grassroots innovations relate to practices of resilience, reworking and resistance. We identify possibilities and limitations as well as patterns of spatial practices and pathways of re-scaling and radical praxis, uncovering broadly-shared resemblances across different places. Through this analysis we aim to make a twofold contribution to political ecology and human geography scholarship on grassroots radical activism, social innovation and the spatialities of resistance. First, to reveal the connections between social-environmental struggles, emerging grassroots innovations and broader structural factors that cause, enable or limit them. Second, to explore how grassroots radical innovations stemming from place-based community struggles can relate to resistance practices that would not only successfully oppose inequality and the withering of the commons in the short-term, but would also open long-term pathways to alternative modes of social organization, and a new commons, based on social needs and social rights that are currently unaddressed.
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981, et al.
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A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
- 2018
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Ingår i: Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0957-8765 .- 1573-7888. ; 29:4, s. 712-724
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 The Author(s) The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality as well as ideological conflicts. Moreover, conceiving of a structurally produced field of contention can help explain the differences in housing contention in the two cities. The analysis situates housing movements and their allied, parallel, or opposing actors within the long-term processes of urbanization and global dynamics of commodification, including housing financialization. It demonstrates that to understand how structural and political factors interact in a complex field of contention, attention to processes beyond short-term local movements is necessary.
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981, et al.
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A structural view on housing movements : Strategic lessons from a field of contention approach
- 2024
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Ingår i: Radical Housing Journal. ; 6:1, s. 105-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different positions on the political spectrum, in an integrated way. With such analytical approach, we can grasp the broader field of relations where various answers to the same structural processes are generated and interact with each other in a dynamic way. In this way, a strategically informative view on how structural processes become politicized can be gained for both housing struggles and engaged research.
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981
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Acasa in secolul 21 : Home in the 21 century
- 2021
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Ingår i: Secolul XXI. Istorie recenta si futurologie. - Chisinau : Cartier. - 9789975864886 ; , s. 297-310
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981, et al.
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Antagonism and Solidarity in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest: A Field of Contention Approach
- 2018
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Ingår i: Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the ‚Good’ and Proper Life in Cities, 17-19 January, Munich, Germany.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We investigate housing contention in Bucharest and Budapest, in the context of post-socialist and post-crisis economic development, to see how such economic and political conditions shape opportunities and constraints for movement-building and alliances. Our main argument is that structural aspects of housing relations are relevant in understanding the alliances, solidarities, antagonisms and conflicts in the field of housing contention. Moreover, they are relevant in understanding the political-ideological positions of different actors of urban social movements.
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