Urban Movements in a Globalising World

Pierre Hamel is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology at Université de Montréal; Henri Lustiger-Thaler is Chair of the Sociology Department of Ramapo College, New Jersey; and Margit Mayer is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Sciences and The Institute of American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

• Introduction: urban social movements—local thematics, global Spaces PART I Urban social movements: global impacts and the new urban Citizenship 1 New social movements, poor people’s movements and the struggle for social citizenship 2 The miniaturisation of collective action: ghettos and global space 3 Marginalisation and political responses in the French context PART II The urban economy in global context 4 Globalisation, entrepreneurial cities and the social economy 5 Local finance in a global economy: palliative or panacea? 6 Workfare and community economic development in Montreal: community and work in the late twentieth century PART III Urban social movements and the global future 7 Urban social movements in an era of globalization 8 The fragmentation of social movements and social justice: beyond the traditional forms of localism 9 Local citizens’ initiatives during the (East) German Transformation 10 The diversity of Eastern European social movements: urban movements, new social movements and nationalist movements in post-socialist societies

'Contributes to issues and debates that are central to social movement theory' - Greg Martin, Social Movement Studies