I Cantieri che vogliamo – The yard we want
In the 2011, after 10 and more years of general urban mismanagement, and the deletion of any kind of cultural activity in the town, the former mayor announced a “public” […]
Author Archives: encounterathens
AVAAL – Associação para a Valorização Ambiental da Alta de Lisboa / Uptown Lisbon Association for Environmental Enhancement
Our main goal is to promote “civic ecology”: the personal and social development through environmental enhancement of local communities. We are based in a neighbourhood of around 30.000 people, Alta […]
Plataforma Defensem el Port Vell /The platform “Defend Port Vell” (Old Port)
The platform “Defend Port Vell” was created last May 2012 in order to confront the new speculative project of Port Vell’s refurbishment, expansion and privatization of some public docks as the “Moll […]
Citizens’ committee for the Metropolitan Park of Hellinikon
The 620 H. site which includes the former airport of Hellinikon and the Agios Kosmas beachfront area in Athens constitutes the peak of the privatization program that is currently underway […]
Crisis Regimes
Since the outburst of the current crisis the countries of Southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) are facing rather unprecedented social, political and economic transformations. The geographical divergences of […]
Theme I: Ultra-neoliberal urban development
Facilitating investments, privatisations and dispossessions have always been central features of neoliberalism. Yet, in the context of the current crisis in Southern Europe, we can observe the persistence of an […]
Theme II: Housing
The housing question has been essential in the current global crisis, most evidently manifested by the subprime mortgage crisis in the USA and the construction bubble in Spain. In Southern […]
Theme III: Local struggles
While the discussion about the crisis concerns mainly its global or state dimensions, the adverse effects of the crisis are strongly experienced in local everyday realities. However, these realities vary […]
Crisis regimes and emerging social movements 