Urban social movement

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Urban social movements or urban movements are social movements that have a fixed spatial reference to a city .

More precise limitation

In addition, this type of social movement is characterized by three characteristics: “First, the conflicts to which they react have their immediate cause at the level of urban politics; second, urban social movements are infrastructurally anchored in their urban environment; thirdly, the city is perceived as a strategic field of action. (Lebuhn) "Margit Mayer defines urban social movements as social movements that" intervene as collective actors to mobilize the process of social or political change, and as urban when their goals and their basis for action are related to the city and the relevant decision-making processes there " . The concept of urban social movements was first introduced in the 1960s. At that time, conflicts with the urban infrastructure, house-to-house conflicts and repairman movements were the main triggers for the emergence of urban social movements.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Mayer: Urban social movements. In: R. Roth, D. Rucht (Ed.): The social movements in Germany since 1945. A manual. Campus, Frankfurt 2008, pp. 293-318.
  2. ^ H. Lebuhn: City in motion. Micro-conflicts around public space in Berlin and Los Angeles. Westphalian steam boat, Münster, 2008, p. 20.
  3. ↑ M. Mayer: Urban social movements. In: R. Roth, D. Rucht (Ed.): The social movements in Germany since 1945. A manual. Campus, Frankfurt 2008, pp. 293-318.
  4. ↑ M. Mayer: Urban social movements. In: A. Klein, H. Legrand, T. Leif (eds.): New social movements. Impulses, balance sheets, perspectives. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 257-271.