from Part II - Why Democracy Matters a Lot
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2026
While this study addresses the question of democracy’s importance to urban protest, it still leaves a number of questions and implications which I address in this chapter. Firstly, why should cities be interested in engaging with unruly protests? Moreover, given that I argue that democratic transitions played an important role in facilitating traversion, is each city’s prospects of improving citizen engagement already predetermined? Furthermore, what are some of the limits of a contentious politics that centers around nationalist history? Additionally, I look at the prospects for future unruly protest and for large-scale government subsidy programs, many of which have increasingly experienced reforms. Lastly, I explore potential ways autoconstruction and traversion can be utilized in different contexts.
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