Power relations, conflicts and everyday life in urban public space

Pettas, Dimitris

doi:10.1080/13604813.2019.1615763

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“…Events surrounding “public address” certainly opened up spaces for the clash of political opinions (cf. Mouffe 2005:30; see also Gray 2018:323; Pettas 2019:227). Indeed, they created different publics within the boundaries of a singular enclosed place of Hyde Park (see Jeffrey et al.…”

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Assemblies, Coalitions, and Conflicts Over Free Speech: From “Trespass” to “Encroachment” in Urban Space at Hyde Park, London, 1861–1962

Roberts

2022

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By drawing, among others, on the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle and Judith Butler, this paper explores spatial struggles over the right to free speech at Hyde Park, London, 1861-1962 From the 1860s to the early 20 th century, the state gradually constructed a "monologic" discourse about an ideal-typical "indecent" speaker who would "trespass" on Hyde Park through their "excitable speech" against a legally sanctioned right to give a "public address" in the park. This discourse gave the state some room to evict those it claimed to be transgressing "public address". However, different "heteroglossic coalitions" of regulars ensured that Hyde Park remained not only a "political assembly" to discuss political issues, but also a "social assembly" to exercise free speech on a range of social topics. Indeed, by the 1950s, these coalitions used a nearby road scheme to successfully argue it was the state that was potentially trespassing, or "encroaching", on free speech at Hyde Park.

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Assemblies, Coalitions, and Conflicts Over Free Speech: From “Trespass” to “Encroachment” in Urban Space at Hyde Park, London, 1861–1962

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2022

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“…Those measures included extensive privatizations, cuts in salaries (in both private and public sectors) and pensions, cuts in welfare provision and 'major, anti-labour and anti-environment institutional changes' (Hadjimihalis, 2013: 118). Contrary to earlier mobilizations that protected the public character of urban spaces in Athens (Pettas 2019(Pettas , 2018, the squares movement provided marginalized groups with the ability to challenge the hegemonic discourses and the economic and political elites related to ceremonial public spaces (Tarrow, 2012). Building on earlier accounts of the transformative impact of commoning social practices (Bresnihan and Byrne, 2015), we argue that organizational innovations, such as care networks that emerged in Syntagma Square, triggered collective engagement with social reproductive practices in the square and beyond.…”

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“…However, at the same time, space can pose limitations, enhance potentialities and offer varying levels of visibility and access to public sphere and realm. Subsequently, the transformative effects of urban social movementsin terms of instituting new organizational forms and spatial practicescan significantly vary, depending on the movements' processes of evolution and objectives (Pettas, 2019).…”

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Solidarity and collective forms of social reproduction: the social and political legacy of Syntagma Square, Athens

Pettas

Daskalaki

2021

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The latest encampments in public spaces, such as Occupy Wall Street, Taksim Square and Syntagma Square, have highlighted the significance of public space in shaping social, economic and political struggles around the world. In this paper, drawing on a qualitative study of Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece, we confirm that spontaneous, self-organised movements, such the Aganaktismenoi (Indignant) movement, could function as intermediaries between protest and resistance, leading to the institution of urban practices of commoning. We argue that the innovative attributes of such movements inspire and trigger the introduction of new decision-making mechanisms, social relationships and political subjectivities and the institution of solidarity and collective forms of social reproduction. We conclude that these initiatives constitute a radicalization of political struggles and have a positive effect both in terms of increased civic participation and the emergence of new collective identities and political subjectivities.

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“…This is not to say that all verticality is hierarchical or every horizontality egalitarian (Harris 2015). Horizontal forms can be established in order to maintain privileges, like owners‐assemblies in gated communities or anti‐immigrant “resident committees” in Athenian neighbourhoods (Pettas 2019). Similarly, vertical forms and structures can be mobilised in support of egalitarian projects, like the Petrograd revolutionary military committee in 1917 or council estates during the period of welfare urbanism (Graham 2016:179–182; Therborn 2017:166–176).…”

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Diagrammatics of Spatial Justice: Neoliberalisation, Normativity, and the Production of Space

Sotiropoulos¹

2022

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This article focuses on the concept of “spatial justice” and argues for its analytical significance in a critical comprehension of a series of phenomena, from processes of neoliberalisation, socio‐geographic composition and the production of urban space to how space and justice are conceived. Being an expression of social theory’s spatial turn, the concept has served to enrich apperceptions of social justice. Nonetheless, the article adopts the contention that neither the concept’s more disturbing implications nor its radical potential have been fully attended. After contextualising the relevant theoretical problematic through an analysis of neoliberal urbanism, this radical potency is foregrounded by a Deleuzian‐inspired conceptualisation, which conceives spatial justice as a contentious process of territorialising and deterritorialising assemblages that operate and unfold diagrammatically. This conceptualisation, it will be argued, allows theory to move beyond the distributive paradigm and its anthropocentric bias, which continue to prevail in the relevant theoretical and political discourses.

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Power relations, conflicts and everyday life in urban public space

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Assemblies, Coalitions, and Conflicts Over Free Speech: From “Trespass” to “Encroachment” in Urban Space at Hyde Park, London, 1861–1962

Assemblies, Coalitions, and Conflicts Over Free Speech: From “Trespass” to “Encroachment” in Urban Space at Hyde Park, London, 1861–1962

Solidarity and collective forms of social reproduction: the social and political legacy of Syntagma Square, Athens

Diagrammatics of Spatial Justice: Neoliberalisation, Normativity, and the Production of Space

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