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In this paper we hypothesize that the practices that prevailed during the pandemic period in relation to the right to parks were related to traditional urban discriminatory policies that need to be changed. We also argue that, in some cases, the residents themselves treated the parks as common living spaces by protecting them from neoliberal grabbing policies that deprive residents of greenery and infringe on the right to the city and to nature. With this in mind, we proceeded with research on the city of Athens. We investigated two urban green parks, the first was "Lofos Philopappou", which is one of the most important parks in the city, as it is one of the largest green spaces in the city center and includes some of the most important ancient monuments. The second park was "Antonis Tritsis", which is the largest park in Athens Metropolitan Area and one of the few high green spaces in the western suburbs. In the framework of this study, we investigated the attitudes and the actions of visitors and groups regarding these parks, the urban social movements, and local struggles and initiatives that are active in the public green parks, together with participation through the commons. We also investigated management policies and attempts to privatize them. The research methods that were used were participant observation in the studied parks, semi-structured interviews with people or groups that used the public urban green parks on a regular basis, noting the narratives they produced, and questionnaires given to visitors who actively used the urban parks. In conclusion, policies implemented within public parks were found to prevent the integration of public green spaces in the daily lives of residents and the active participation of residents in decisions concerning the green extensions of their neighborhoods. In this way, a part of society is deprived of the ability to maintain continuous contact with nature and green parks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the evolvement of the 'movement of the squares' following the end of the more visible cycles of mobilization of the squares´ occupations. We argue that a crucial aspect of this evolution lies in the creation of a social infrastructure of alternative (re)productive projects in the form of commons. We call this type of outcomes 'social' in order to distinguish them from the cultural, political and biographical outcomes underlined in typologies on the consequences of social movements. Bridging social movement studies with the literature on the commons, we build a conceptual framework of their relationship. Through a comparative analysis of the movements in Athens and Barcelona, we show how the commoning practices of the square encampments gave rise to more endurable commons disseminated across cities´ social fabrics. We identify both direct and indirect mechanisms of movements´ transmutation into commons, and distinguish the former into transplantation, ideation, and breeding processes. Our second aim is to scrutinize the political dimension of these commons in relation to what has been framed as the 'post-political condition'. We maintain that the post-square commons constitute political and politicizing actions for activists and users for their effects on everyday life, for their capacity to link their practices with broader, structural dynamics of injustice, inequality and exclusion, and for their selective engagement with counter-austerity politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This shift, apart from major effects in the political dimension of the movement, leads to the advancement of the importance of public space in the movements' practices as well as the emergence of the square as an intermediate and indeterminate space: 'Gradually the square became as space not of indignation but of possibility, it had social characteristics [...] a possibility for real change' (Maria, participant in the Aganaktismenoi movement). Keywords: Social movements; resistance; squares; aganaktismenoi movement; commoning practices; movimientos sociales; resistencia; plazas; movimiento Aganaktismenoi; prácticas comunitarias; mouvements sociaux; résistance; places; mouvement Aganaktismenoi; pratiques de mise en commun EN Social movements resistance squares aganaktismenoi movement commoning practices ZH movimientos sociales resistencia plazas movimiento Aganaktismenoi prácticas comunitarias mouvements sociaux résistance places mouvement Aganaktismenoi pratiques de mise en commun 1118 1134 17 10/12/22 20221001 NES 221001 Introduction Despite their spatial restrictions, the movement of the Squares (Fernández-Savater et al., [18]; Varvarousis et al., [54]), for example, in Istanbul, London, Madrid or Paris, successfully adopted a cosmopolitan identity, while managing to secure widespread local and global support (Gerbaudo, [19]). On the contrary to Mullis et al. ([37]) or Schipper's ([48]) findings concerning the Blockupy movements in Frankfurt and the Israel in J14 protests, the Aganaktismenoi movement, neither evolved from a pre-existing network of urban social movements nor included issues of urban collective consumption in its claims. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores the role of gender in the social movements of the Greek crisis. Building on extensive fieldwork, we observe a gradual shift from claim‐based, street mobilizations to locally embedded solidarity initiatives that addressed social reproduction needs in relation to food, health, education, and housing. We illustrate how this foregrounded social reproductive practices; challenged traditional divisions of labor and the temporalities and spatialities of movement organizing; and brought forward the value of building intersectional coalitions and of embracing affect and radical care. Despite the lack of explicitly articulated feminist values and principles, we argue that many social movements of the crisis therefore have cultivated situated and implicit modes of feminist solidarity that warrant further attention. Accordingly, we discuss the implications for feminist organizing and radical social movements more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]