Miejskie (r)ewolucje. Radykalizm retoryki a praktyka reformy
Urban (r)evolutions. Radical rhetoric versus reformist praxis

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the idea of ??the right to the city (RTTC), one of the leading ideologies of contemporary emancipatory politics. It also focuses on social actors (mainly Polish urban social movements) as the RTTC users and deals with the problem how urban activists use the idea in everyday political praxis. The right to the city is analysed with respect to the Laclau’s notion of an “empty signifier”, that is, as an element which depends on the interpretation put on it in the pragmatics of social struggles. Furthermore, the article examines the fact of consistent functionalization of the RTTC idea. The initially Marxian concept of revolutionary origins is now becoming increasingly reformist and is being used mainly as a popular political label.

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