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Urban Geography

Volume 34, Issue 4, 2013

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Social Movements in Urban Society: The City as A Space of Politicization

Social Movements in Urban Society: The City as A Space of Politicization

DOI:
10.1080/02723638.2013.786904
Byron Millera* & Walter Nichollsb

pages 452-473

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Recent anti-systemic social movements have illustrated the central role of cities in social movement mobilization. We not only highlight the characteristics of urban social relations that make cities fertile ground for mobilization, but also point to the disjunctures between the geographies and spatialities of social relations in the city, and the geographies and spatialities of many systemic processes. Struggles for a more just society must consider the broad geographies and spatialities of oppression, which we illustrate with a brief analysis of the Occupy movement. Finally, we introduce the next five articles in this special issue, all illustrating the importance of the geographies and spatialities of urban social struggle.

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  • Published online: 30 May 2013

Author affiliations

  • a Department of Geography , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada
  • b Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences , Division of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands

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  • New to Routledge for 2013
  • 2013 Impact Factor: 1.746. Ranking in 2013 SSCI: 5/38 (Urban Studies); 15/76 (Geography)
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