Urban grassroots movements in Central and Eastern Europe Preface List of contributors Introduction : urban grassroots movements in Central and Eastern Europe Kerstin Jacobsson The playfulness of resistance : articulations of urban grassroots activism in post socialist Vilnius Beatriz Lindqvist The ups and downs of a symbolic city : the architectural heritage protection movement in Bucharest Ioana Florea The elderly as a force for urban civil activism in Ukraine Olena Leipnik Urban grassroots anti politics and modernity : bike activism in Belgrade Sabrina Kopf Unsettling tthe urban in post Yugoslav activisms : right to the city and pride parades in Serbia and Croatia Bojan Bili and Paul Stubbs The performative logic of urban space contestation : two examples of local communities mobilisation in St. Petersburg Elena Tykanova and Anisya Khokhlova From localáto political : the Kaliningrad mass protest movement of 2009 2010 in Russia Karine Clément Alliance building and brokerage in contentious politics : the case of the Polish tenants movement Dominika V. Polanska Shaping the city and its inhabitants : urban activism in Slovakia Alexandra Bituckov Europeanisation and urban movements : political opportunities of community organisations in Lithuania Jolanta Aidukaite and Kerstin Jacobsson Epilogue Kerstin jacobsson