Publication edited by Jelisaveta Petrović and Vera Backović, deals with current urban changes in Serbia. “Experiencing Postsocialist Capitalism – Urban Changes and Challenges in Serbia” through overall eleven chapters offers thorough and detailed analyses of socio-spatial transformation of Serbian cities and intense processes of neoliberal urbanization. Also, it gives a glimpse into reactive moment, initiated by various urban actors in this specific context of postsocialist capitalism. In the first part of the book, contributors delineate in detail the processes of urban transformation in Serbia. Here, analytical focus is set on profitable gentrification and urban megaprojects such as the Belgrade Waterfront, with their key manifestations being socio-spatial inequalities and commodification of urban practices. Second part of the book however, sheds the light on various actors and their confrontational strategies. Here, contributors underline the importance and occurrence of urban initiatives, “bottom-up” struggles and creative practices, emerging in opposition to aggressive investor urbanism, corrupted state institutions and lack of protection for public goods.
Author(s): Jelisaveta Petrović and Vera Backović (eds.)
Publisher: Institute for Sociological Research
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: Belgrade
Tags: urban sociology; urban changes; capitalism; postsocialist transformation; Belgrade; Serbia
CONTENTS
7 | List of Contributors
9 | Acknowledgements
11 | Jelisaveta Petrović and Vera Backović
Introduction
PART I: NEOLIBERALIZED SOCIO-SPATIAL
TRANSFORMATIONS
23 | Vera Backović
The Specificity of Gentrification in the Postsocialist City:
The Case of the Belgrade Waterfront Project
45 | Jorn Koelemaij and Stefan Janković
Behind the Frontline of the Belgrade Waterfront:
A Reconstruction of the Early Implementation Phase
of a Transnational Real Estate Development Project
67 | Barend Wind
Socio-Spatial Inequalities in the Housing Market:
The Outcomes of Belgrade’s Socialist and Postsocialist
Policy Regime
105 | Ivana Spasić
The Symbolic Markers of Belgrade’s Transformation:
Monuments and Fountains
127 | Ana Pajvančić – Cizelj
Struggling with the Title: A Capital of Culture
at the Superperiphery of Europe
PART II: URBAN (RE)ACTIONS: AWAKENING
OF URBAN MOVEMENTS
151 | Jelena Božilović
Right to the City: Urban Movements and Initiatives
as the Pulse of Civil Society in Serbia
6 | Experiencing Postsocialist Capitalism: Urban Changes and Challenges in Serbia
171 | Jelisaveta Petrović
The Transformative Power of Urban Movements
on the European Periphery: The Case of the Don’t Let
Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
189 | Mladen Nikolić
The Participants in the Protest Against Illegal Demolitions in
Belgrade’s Savamala Quarter
211 | Selena Lazić
The Role of the Civil Sector in the Urban Transformation
of the Savamala Neighbourhood
229 | Marina Čabrilo
Brushing over Urban Space: Between the Struggle for
the Right to the City and the Reproduction of the Neoliberal
Model through the Example of Belgrade Murals and Graffiti
