'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

'This timely collection shows how fieldwork in the trenches of everyday urban struggles can reveal both fascinating and hope-inducing insight!' Margit Mayer, Free University Berlin

'This book examines local solidarity as a counterweight to isolation, which underpins right-wing and fascist forces – important and timely research!' Helen Schwenken, University of Osnabrück

'This is a groundbreaking work revealing, through the lens of everyday practice, how urban grassroots movements across Europe advance citizenship. Moving beyond protest, it charts a new political terrain where mutual aid and commoning forge powerful, transversal solidarities, relating to migrant rights, housing and care work. An essential, empirically rich read for understanding the future of urban democracy and collective action in an age of crisis.' Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Linköping University

'At a time of increasing urban fragmentation, unrest, and social division in much of the global North, this book offers a vitally important resource for understanding how our urban worlds are always-already being remade. Focusing on a wide range of expressions of collective agency in response to forces of privatisation, social isolation and urban precarity, this collection explores the forms of solidarity that exist in everyday urban life, from neighbourhood and community organizing to struggles over migration, housing and care. Offering detailed ethnographic explorations from across Europe, it challenges conventional thinking on citizenship and solidarity in uncertain times, pointing to the often-unnoticed practices through which power, place and belonging are navigated individually and collectively. This empirically rich and conceptually innovative text will be of interest to all those concerned with constructing pathways to urban solidarity and common cause.' Jonathan Darling, Durham University

'Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity offers a powerful vision of bottom-up democracy and citizenship, inspired by struggles for justice, care and belonging.' Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University

'A rich and timely exploration of how care, solidarity and citizenship are enacted in Europe’s neighbourhoods. This book redefines urban politics through everyday practices of mutual aid and communing – a must-read for urban, migration and social movement scholars alike.' Felipe G. Santos, City St George’s, University of London and author of 'Social Movements that Care: Empathy, Solidarity, and Empowerment in the Fight Against Evictions'

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 Schilliger

1. Politics Grounded in the Everyday: Transversal Solidarity Across Migrant, Housing, and Social Justice Struggles in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg - Mouna Maaroufi and Helge Schwiertz

2. Inhabiting the City: Solidarity Practices in Urban Mobilizations in Italy - Donatella della Porta, Angela Adami, Joana Lilli Hofstetter

3. ‘Not Just Mobilised, but Organised’: Place-Based Politics, Spillover Activism and Building Solidarities in a ‘Hard Ghetto’ Neighbourhood in Denmark - Franz Bernhardt

4. Solidarity Networks and Spaces of Hope: Refugee Housing in Ljubljana - Anteja Tomašič, Mojca Pajnik

5. Changing Activism: Migrant Rights Initiatives, Municipalities, and the 2019 Danish ‘Paradigm Shift’ - Franz Bernhardt, Mashudu Salifu, Paola Buconjic, Martin Bak Jørgensen

6. Infrastructuring Care in the City: Solidarity Practices in/through the Feminist Strike Movement in Switzerland - Sarah Schilliger

7. Community Kitchens in Bern and Berlin: Building Local Care Infrastructures from Below - Natascha Flückiger, Mouna Maaroufi, Sarah Schilliger

8. Reviving Legacies in Health Movements: Practices of Care and the Commoning of Health Provision in Italian Cities - Angela Adami, Donatella della Porta, Carla Mannino

9. ‘Commoning’ Infrastructure Sustenance and the Routinisation of Horisontalism: Lessons in Maintaining a Political Life in a Deindustrialised Town - Marko Ribać

Conclusions: Urban Struggles as a Catalyst for Social Change - Helge Schwiertz, Donatella della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, and Sarah Schilliger