In person icon Decentralization and Urban Activism: Reinventing Local Movements

Abstract

This panel investigates the decentralized tactics that social movements and protests, including urban social movements adopt to navigate contemporary political and social challenges. It examines how movements combine horizontal decision-making and deliberative democracy with formal structures, adapt strategies of justification to negotiate legitimacy, and form complex networks that connect local and national activism. By exploring diverse cases, the panel will highlight how local mobilizations are reshaped by globalization, technology and shifting socio-economic identities. It will provide insights into how urban movements innovate in tactics and build coalitions that challenge and reshape power relations.

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