Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence.Martin Bak Jørgensen is Professor in Processes of Migration at Aalborg University.Mojca Pajnik is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Ljubljana, and Senior Researcher at The Peace Institute.Helge Schwiertz is Acting Professor of Sociological Theory at the University of Hamburg.Sarah Schilliger is Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern.

• Introduction: Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity Through Urban Struggles - Helge Schwiertz, Donatella della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, and Sarah Schilliger1. Politics Grounded in the Everyday: Transversal Solidarity Across Migrant, Housing, and Social Justice Struggles in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg - Mouna Maaroufi and Helge Schwiertz2. Inhabiting the City: Solidarity Practices in Urban Mobilizations in Italy - Donatella della Porta, Angela Adami, Joana Lilli Hofstetter3. ‘Not Just Mobilised, but Organised’: Place-Based Politics, Spillover Activism and Building Solidarities in a ‘Hard Ghetto’ Neighbourhood in Denmark - Franz Bernhardt4. Solidarity Networks and Spaces of Hope: Refugee Housing in Ljubljana - Anteja Tomašič, Mojca Pajnik5. Changing Activism: Migrant Rights Initiatives, Municipalities, and the 2019 Danish ‘Paradigm Shift’ - Franz Bernhardt, Mashudu Salifu, Paola Buconjic, Martin Bak Jørgensen6. Infrastructuring Care in the City: Solidarity Practices in/through the Feminist Strike Movement in Switzerland - Sarah Schilliger7. Community Kitchens in Bern and Berlin: Building Local Care Infrastructures from Below - Natascha Flückiger, Mouna Maaroufi, Sarah Schilliger8. Reviving Legacies in Health Movements: Practices of Care and the Commoning of Health Provision in Italian Cities - Angela Adami, Donatella della Porta, Carla Mannino9. ‘Commoning’ Infrastructure Sustenance and the Routinisation of Horisontalism: Lessons in Maintaining a Political Life in a Deindustrialised Town - Marko RibaćConclusions: Urban Struggles as a Catalyst for Social Change - Helge Schwiertz, Donatella della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, and Sarah Schilliger

'This inspiring collection of excellent essays meticulously documents how people across European cities are creating solidaristic, democratic and radical forms of citizenship as counter-movements to nationalism and authoritarianism. Empirically focusing on mid-size cities (e.g., Aalborg, Bern, Hamburg, Ljubljana and Palermo), it shows how these movements make everyday life political through mutual aid and care, horizontal and participatory organising, and alliances across diverse rights to the city, such as work, housing, health, migration and asylum. Theoretically, it demonstrates that building infrastructures of solidarity, generating affective bonds, and developing translocal connections create strong democratic communities.' Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London