ABSTRACT
The period following the 2008 financial crash has been characterized by the entrenchment of neoliberal policies in the form of fiscal austerity, deregulation, re-regulation and privatizations. From mining, fracking, waste disposal, and land grabbing in rural locations to shrinking access and loss of public green spaces, gentrification, urban regeneration, and infrastructure megaprojects in cities, public spaces and socionatures within and beyond cities are being expropriated, privatized, commoditized, transformed, and degraded with the aim of overcoming recession and boosting economic growth. This chapter, by considering these developments part of a wider attack on the working class and marginalized social groups and an emblematic manifestation of the collapse of the (remaining) welfare state, explores the emergence of social-environmental movements and struggles against the uneven geographies of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. It concludes by highlighting the need to bring together struggles for social, environmental, and spatial justice by linking social movements fighting for the right to the city with movements fighting for the right to nature.
