Urban uprisings : challenging neoliberal urbanism in Europe This book analyses the waves of protests from spontaneous uprisings to well organized forms of collective action which have shaken European cities over the last decade. It shows how analysing these protests in connection with the structural context of neoliberal urbanism and its crises is more productive than standard explanations. Processes of neoliberalisation have caused deeply segregated urban landscapes defined by deepening social inequality rising unemployment racism securitization of urban spaces and welfare state withdrawal particularly from poor peripheral areas where tensions between marginalized youth and police often manifest in public spaces. Challenging a conventional distinction made in research on protest the book integrates a structural analysis of processes of large scale urban transformation with analyses of the relationship between riots and social movement action in nine countries: France Greece England Germany Spain Poland Denmark Sweden and Turkey Re thinking urban social movements riots and uprisings : an introduction Håkan Thörn Margit Mayer and Catharina Thörn Neoliberal urbanism and uprisings across Europe Margit Mayer Rage and fire in the French banlieues Mustafa Dikeç The neoliberal state and the 2011 English riots : a class analysis Tom Slater The Stockholm uprising in context : urban social movements in the rise and demise of the Swedish welfare state city Ove Sernhede Catharina Thörn and Håkan Thörn Last stand or renewed urban activism : the Copenhagen Youth House uprising 2007 Anders Lund Hansen and René Karpantschof Right to the city and beyond : the topographies of urban social movements in Hamburg Peter Birke Athens spatial contract and the neoliberal omni present Antonis Vradis Between autonomy and hybridity : urban struggles within the 15M movement in Spain Miguel A. Martínez López Gezi protests and beyond : urban resistance under neoliberal urbanism in Turkey Gülçin Erdi Lelandais Neoliberal post socialist urban transformation and the emergence of urban social movements in Poland Dominika V. Polanska Afterword : Spatialized social inequalities and urban collective action Margit Mayer Catharina Thörn and Håkan Thörn