Introduction "Urban lives and protests in neoliberal times: Art, aesthetics and solidarity as possibilities"

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Published: Jan 16, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.15810
Keywords:
urban protest neoliberalism possibilities contingency aesthetics poetics rhetorics strategies
Eleftheria Deltsou
University of Thessaly
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3420-1276
Fotini Tsibiridou
University of Macedonia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6023-3768
Abstract

The introduction to this special issue explores theoretically the emergence of the cultural turn in contemporary social movements. Its focus on “possibility” as a broad array of culturally and politically disparate practices and ideas makes possible to discuss in the frame of contigency: the appearance of different forms of urban living and re-acting by focusing on visions of urban life that are activated by social movements; How these visions are put in practice; The already culturally available or newly imagined ways of relating in the new forms of social mobilization; The tactics, strategies, poetics, and rhetorics that social movements employ as they re-act against more or less authoritarian practices in neoliberal times. The case studies concern the following cities around the world: Bogota (Colombia), Los Angeles (U.S.A.), Istanbul (Turkey), Thessaloniki (Greece).

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Author Biographies
Eleftheria Deltsou, University of Thessaly

Assistant professor, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly 

Fotini Tsibiridou, University of Macedonia

Professor, Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental                                                                                 Studies, University of Macedonia 

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