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Record Nr.

UNINA9910564680803321

Autore

Florea Ioana

Titolo

Contemporary Housing Struggles : A Structural Field of Contention Approach / / by Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2022

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030974053

3030974057

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Classificazione

POL029000SOC026000SOC026030

Altri autori (Persone)

GagyiAgnes

JacobssonKerstin

Disciplina

363.50943912

Soggetti

Social policy

Sociology, Urban

Economics - Sociological aspects

Comparative Social Policy

Urban Sociology

Economic Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction. Embedding the Analysis of Housing Contention in the Sociopolitical Complexity of Structural Crises -- 2. The Structural Field of Contention Approach -- 3. The Structural Background of Housing Contention in Bucharest and Budapest -- 4. Housing Contention in Budapest -- 5. Housing Contention in Bucharest -- 6. Structural Fields of Contention in Housing Struggles. Comparative Lessons -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today's capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local



scales. Instead of searching for unilinear narratives connecting structural tensions to politicized claims, the book offers an in-depth contextual analysis of multiple forms of contention, their (often unintentional) interactions, and their broader political-structural background, including tensions surrounded by political silence. The authors analyze the two cases and their comparative lessons through what they propose as a "structural field of contention" approach to the multiple, interconnected ways in which structural tensions become (or not) politicized in today's social movements. The book will appeal to everyone interested in today's urban tensions and social movements. .