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This book deepens our understanding of urban struggles in a variety of socio-spatial contexts and at different scales. It reveals the commonalities and differences between Brazil and other countries in the Global North. The reader will find reflective stories ranging from land occupations and creative urban protests to mutual aid during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, and from tenants’ organising to self-managed spaces in Sweden. While taking a broad political economy, decolonial, and feminist approach, this volume provides a novel, critical account of the social needs and aspirations of those involved in peripheral urban struggles.
Price: $156.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004774209
Format: Hardcover
Miguel A. Martínez, PhD (2000), is Chair Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University (Sweden). He studies social movements and urban phenomena from a sociological perspective. He is the author of Squatters in the Capitalist City (Routledge, 2020), editor of the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology (Edward Elgar, 2024) and co-author of Centros Sociales Autogestionados. Por una reapropiación colectiva de la ciudad (Akal, 2025). www.miguelangelmartinez.net
Rita Velloso, PhD (2007), is Professor at the School of Architecture at Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil. She studies urban struggles from a philosophical-historical perspective. She has been visiting researcher at the Walter Benjamin Archive/Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2025) and Senior Fellow at Universität Konstanz (2025). She is the author of Urbano-Constelação (2022), Enigma das Cidades (2023), Modos da Atenção: estética, política e crítica de arquitetura (2024), and Teorias e Práticas Urbanas: caminhos (2024).
Don Mitchell is Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University. He researches labor-capital struggles in the agribusiness landscape, labor exploitation in the gig economy, homelessness, public space, the geography of law, and spatial theories of justice. Among others he is the author of Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits to Capital (2020) and co-editor of Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City (2018).
Irene Molina is Professor in Human Geography at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), Uppsala University. Her research revolves around social justice in housing provision. Together with Prof. Miguel Martínez, she coordinates the Housing and Urban Justice Project (HUJP) at IBF. She has recently co-edited the Special Issue “Struggling for Housing Justice” in Housing, Theory and Society (2024), and co-authored the article “Capturing Displacement: A Dialectical Mixed-Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction” (IJURR, 2025).
Rita Velloso, PhD (2007), is Professor at the School of Architecture at Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil. She studies urban struggles from a philosophical-historical perspective. She has been visiting researcher at the Walter Benjamin Archive/Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2025) and Senior Fellow at Universität Konstanz (2025). She is the author of Urbano-Constelação (2022), Enigma das Cidades (2023), Modos da Atenção: estética, política e crítica de arquitetura (2024), and Teorias e Práticas Urbanas: caminhos (2024).
Don Mitchell is Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University. He researches labor-capital struggles in the agribusiness landscape, labor exploitation in the gig economy, homelessness, public space, the geography of law, and spatial theories of justice. Among others he is the author of Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits to Capital (2020) and co-editor of Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City (2018).
Irene Molina is Professor in Human Geography at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), Uppsala University. Her research revolves around social justice in housing provision. Together with Prof. Miguel Martínez, she coordinates the Housing and Urban Justice Project (HUJP) at IBF. She has recently co-edited the Special Issue “Struggling for Housing Justice” in Housing, Theory and Society (2024), and co-authored the article “Capturing Displacement: A Dialectical Mixed-Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction” (IJURR, 2025).