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Published in: openSecurityThe shadow citizenryThe shadow citizenry is a territorial reserve army of foot soldiers, who want in but are forced out; often defiant...
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Published in: openSecurityThe urban paradox
As Cities in Conflict goes on hiatus, I take a look back at the past fourteen months of publishing articles, film,...
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Published in: openSecurityOn violence and protest in BrazilWhile media coverage of Brazil's urban protests continues to focus on Molotov cocktails and smashed windows, the...
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Published in: openSecurityDesigned conflict territoriesAs the traditional role of the commons is lost to proprietary, securitised technology and authoritarian control,...
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Published in: openSecurityFocus E15: the young mothers' struggle for universal housing
For more than six months, a small group of young, homeless mothers have been battling for decent and secure social...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Free Fare Movement comes to RioOn 6th February, Rio's military police clashed with thousands of protestors calling for free movement in the city....
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Published in: openSecurity"There is Marikana everyday in South Africa" - an interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo
Film: Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack...
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Published in: openSecurityVictims no longer: Spain’s anti-eviction movementFor over four years, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) have responded to a national housing crisis...
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Published in: openSecurityTwelve bullets in a man’s body, twelve more in a collective fantasyCities have emerged as a key site of popular struggle in post-apartheid South Africa. But with the ANC responding to...
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Published in: openSecuritySão Paulo: the city and its protest
While the recent protests in São Paulo are made up of a cross-section of Paulite society 'waking up' to social...
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Published in: openSecurityFootball, politics and protest in BrazilThe protests on the streets of Brazilian cities are by no means anti-Brazil (or even anti-football). Rather, they...
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Published in: openSecurityCopa pra quem?In Belo Horizonte, under the slogan "Copa pra quem?" (Whose Cup?) thousands have taken to the streets, occupied and...
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Published in: openSecurityThe demonstration games
Recent protests over a bus fare increase signal a major shift in Brazilian society as the growing middle class...
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Published in: openSecurityFraudulent democracy and urban stasis in Turkey
Turkey's urban citizens are standing up against authoritarian governance, and for their right to the city, their...
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Published in: openSecurityWe take back what's ours!
We are the resistance. We are not victims. We are citizens with a duty to defend our commons, and we will not bargain.
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Published in: openSecurityIstanbul in lockdownAnother sleepless night in Istanbul as thousands of people take to the streets to oppose Erdogan's increasingly...
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Published in: HomeHusby and territorial stigma in SwedenThis statement appeared at the beginning of June in the Swedish broadsheet SVD, calling for a public investigation...
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Published in: openSecurityThe pyres of SpringThe riots which besieged Stockholm's suburbs in late May, are not indicative of some ‘exclusion’ from mainstream...
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Published in: HomeToday we are all someone new!
Reclaiming Taksim has shattered AKP's hegemony in deciding what a square is supposed to mean for us citizens,...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkish hopes for a new beginningWhether or not the protestors currently occupying Istanbul's Taksim square can evolve into an effective, open and...
