This thematic section of Reclaiming Spaces focuses on the multitude of actions, struggles, and strategies of survival and solidarity, as well as on alternative plans and political demands in response to the effects of the economic and financial crisis on housing and local living conditions. By this, we aim to encourage a political debate among social movements on transnational strategies towards a more just economy and society.
Attention must be paid to the multi-dimensional character of the current “crisis”: we know that it emerges as economic, but it is also social, environmental, political and spatial. Built on the speculative global finance, this situation is not new and was largely propelled and modelled by neoliberal policies over the last few decades. Moreover, we should not forget the continuity between old and new struggles that have also emerged such as those resisting forced evictions, mega events and mega projects, gentrification, and other violations of rights.
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http://www.reclaiming-spaces.org/project/archives/106
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