Large-scale protests have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. Squares and urban places, monumentally designed as political and economic centres, have been reclaimed as places for discussion anddecision-making, for increasing participation and intervention in the governance of the community. Through banners and signs, open assemblies, and other communicative practices in the encampments and interconnecting physical and virtual spaces, participants permanently reconfigure the spatial context discursively. The attempt to account for on-going social phenomena from the moment they first happen, and with an international perspective, undoubtedly represents a theoretical and methodological challenge. This special issue focuses on this complex interplay between social, spatial, and communicative practices, drawing on complementary and alternative methods.
Blommaert, Jan, Jim Collins, and Stef Slembrouck. 2005. Polycentricity and Interactional Regimes in ‘Global Neighbourhoods’. Ethnography 651: 205–235.
Bulot, Thierry, C. Bauvois et Pierre Blanchet (dirs). 2001. Sociolinguistique Urbaine (Variations linguistiques, images urbaines et sociales). Cahiers de Sociolinguistique 6. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Butler, Judith. 2011. “Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street”. Trasversal. Eipcp. [URL].
Calvet, Louis J. 2005. “Les voix de la ville revisitées: Sociolinguistique urbaine ou linguistique de la ville. Dans Signalétique et signalisations linguistiques et langagières des espaces de villes (configurations et enjeux sociolinguistiques)”. Revue de l’Université de Moncton 36 (1): 9–30.
Castells, Manuel. 1983. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. London, UK: Edward Arnold.
De Certeau, Michel. 1984. The Practice of Everyday Life. California, CA: University of California Press.
Gottdiener, Mark. 1994. The Social Production of Urban Space. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Gutiérrez, Bernardo. 2013. “Prototype 2: The Urban Micro-utopia. Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes (Part 1)”. [URL].
Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity. New York, NY: Free Press.
Harvey, David. 1993. “From Space to Place and Back again: Reflections on the Condition of Postmodernity”. In Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change, ed. by John Bird, Barry Curtis, Tim Putnam, George Robertson and Lisa Tickner, 3–29. London: Routledge.
Hatuka, Tali. 2011. “Designing Protests in Urban Public Space.” Metropolitics. eu. [URL]14/09/2011.
Heller, Monica. 2005. “Une approche sociolinguistique à l’urbanité. Signalétique et signalisations linguistiques et langagières des espaces de villes (configurations et enjeux sociolinguistiques)”. Revue de l’Université de Moncton 36 (1): 9–30.
Isaac, Larry. 1997. “Transforming Localities: Reflections on Time, Causality, and Narrative in Contemporary Historical Sociology”. Historical Methods 30 (1): 4–12.
Lamarre, Patricia. 2013. ““Catching Montréal on the Move” and Challenging the Discourse of Unilingualism in Quebec.” Anthropologica 55 (1): 41–56.
Landry, Rodrigue, and Richard Bourhis. 1997. “Linguistic Landscape and Etholinguistic Vitality.” Journal of Language and Social Psychology 16 (1): 23–49.
Lefebvre, Henry. 1968. Le Droit à la Ville. Paris: Ed. du Seuil.
Lefebvre, Henry. 1991. The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell.
Martín Rojo, Luisa. 2010. Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Merrifield, Andrew. 1993. “Place and Space: A Lefebvrian Reconciliation”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series 18 (4): 516–531.
Pennycook, Alastair. 2010. Language as Local Practice. New York, NY: Routledge.
Sennett, Richard. 1994. Flesh and Stone: The Body and The City in Western Civilization. London: Norton. .
Sevilla, C., Joseba Fernández, and Miguel Urbán (eds). 2012. Ocupemos el mundo! Occupy the world!. Madrid: Icaria.
Shohamy, Elana, and Durk Gorter (eds). 2009. Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery. New York, NY: Routledge.
Sol encampment conceptual Map. 2011. Una línea sobre el mar. at[URL].
Sousa Santos, Boaventura. 2002. Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation. London: Butterworths.
Tickamyer, Ann. 2000. “Space Matters: Spatial Inequality in Future Sociology.” Contemporary Sociology 29 (6): 805–813.
Virilio, Paul. 1999 [1996]. Politics of the Very Worst. New York, NY: Semiotext(e).
Wallerstein, Inmanuel. 2011. “The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street”. Commentary No. 3151, Oct. 15, 2011. At: [URL] accessed 09/20/2014.
Writers for the 99%. 2011. Occupying Wall Street. The Inside Story of an Action that Change America. New York, NY: PR Books.
Zapata, Guillermo. 2012. “Los Nuevos Panfletos, las Nuevas Plazas. Redes Sociales y Movimiento 15-M”. In ¡Ocupemos el mundo! Occupy the world! ed. by Carlos Sevilla, Joseba Fernández, and Miguel Urbán, 85–92. Madrid: Icaria.
Zukin, Sharon. 1991. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. .
Cited by (16)
Cited by 16 other publications
Byrne, Steven & Erika Marcet
2024.
La lluita continua
: socio-political debate and the linguistic landscape of a Catalan city
. Social Semiotics 34:1 ► pp. 113 ff.
Karam, Fares J., Amanda K. Kibler, Amber N. Warren & Zinnia Shweiry
Honey-Rosés, Jordi, Isabelle Anguelovski, Vincent K. Chireh, Carolyn Daher, Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Jill S. Litt, Vrushti Mawani, Michael K. McCall, Arturo Orellana, Emilia Oscilowicz, Ulises Sánchez, Maged Senbel, Xueqi Tan, Erick Villagomez, Oscar Zapata & Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen
2021. The impact of COVID-19 on public space: an early review of the emerging questions – design, perceptions and inequities. Cities & Health 5:sup1 ► pp. S263 ff.
Themistocleous, Christiana
2021. From public to digital spaces: Spatial and media practices of the 2017 ‘Unite Cyprus Now’ peace protests. Discourse, Context & Media 42 ► pp. 100504 ff.
2020. MIGRANT YOUTH PUSH BACK. VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIPS AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE. Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 59:3 ► pp. 1833 ff.
Gillen, Julia, Mandy Hoi Man Yu, Gloria Ho Nga Fan & Selena Ho
2020. Literacies remaking public places: the Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014. Literacy 54:2 ► pp. 40 ff.
Farinosi, Manuela & Leopoldina Fortunati
2018. Knitting Feminist Politics: Exploring a Yarn-Bombing Performance in a Postdisaster City. Journal of Communication Inquiry 42:2 ► pp. 138 ff.
Serafis, Dimitris, E. Dimitris Kitis & Argiris Archakis
2018. Graffiti slogans and the construction of collective identity: evidence from the anti-austerity protests in Greece. Text & Talk 38:6 ► pp. 775 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 14 september 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.