Urban grassroots movements in Central and Eastern Europe

1. Introduction : the development of urban movements in Central and Eastern Europe / Kerstin Jacobsson -- 2. The playfulness of resistance : articulations of urban grassroots activism in post-socialist Vilnius / Beatriz Lindqvist -- 3. The ups and downs of a symbolic city : the architectural heritage protection movement in Bucharest / Ioana Florea -- 4. The elderly as a force for urban civil activism in Ukraine / Olena Leipnik -- 5. Urban grassroots, anti-politics and modernity : bike activism in Belgrade / Sabrina Kopf -- 6. Unsettling 'the urban' in post-Yugoslav activisms : 'right to the city' and pride parades in Serbia and Croatia / Bojan Bilic and Paul Stubbs -- 7. The performative logic of urban space contestation : two examples of local communities mobilisation in St. Petersburg / Elena Tykanova and Anisya Khokhlova -- 8. From 'local' to 'political' : the Kaliningrad mass protest movement of 2009-2010 in Russia / Karine Clement -- 9. Alliance building and brokerage in contentious politics : the case of the Polish tenants' movement / Dominika V. Polanska -- 10. Shaping the city and its inhabitants : urban activism in Slovakia / Alexandra Bituckov -- 11. Europeanisation and urban movements : political opportunities of community organisations in Lithuania / Jolanta Aidukaite and Kerstin Jacobsson.

What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect the diversity and complexity of post-socialist urban movements, capturing also the extent to which the laboratory of urban politics is richly illustrative of the complex nexus of state-society-market r

Preface -- List of contributors -- Introduction : urban grassroots movements in Central and Eastern Europe / Kerstin Jacobsson -- The playfulness of resistance : articulations of urban grassroots activism in post-socialist Vilnius / Beatriz Lindqvist -- The ups and downs of a symbolic city : the architectural heritage protection movement in Bucharest / Ioana Florea -- The elderly as a force for urban civil activism in Ukraine / Olena Leipnik -- Urban grassroots, anti-politics and modernity : bike activism in Belgrade / Sabrina Kopf -- Unsettling tthe urban" in post-Yugoslav activisms : right to the city and pride parades in Serbia and Croatia / Bojan Bili and Paul Stubbs -- The performative logic of urban space contestation : two examples of local communities mobilisation in St. Petersburg / Elena Tykanova and Anisya Khokhlova -- From "localáto political" : the Kaliningrad mass protest movement of 2009-2010 in Russia / Karine Clément -- Alliance building and brokerage in contentious politics : the case of the Polish tenants' movement / Dominika V. Polanska -- Shaping the city and its inhabitants : urban activism in Slovakia / Alexandra Bituckov -- Europeanisation and urban movements : political opportunities of community organisations in Lithuania / Jolanta Aidukaite and Kerstin Jacobsson -- Epilogue -- Kerstin jacobsson