ABSTRACT
This final chapter articulates the intersections between the recent resistance movements and the neoliberal conditions and processes that define today's global societies. It highlights a set of relationships emerging from the case studies that characterize the linkages between urban resistance, public space, and attempts to reinvigorate our democratic institutions and practices. The chapter examines four aspects in which public spaces serve as nodes of critical actions and reflections: public space as sites of mobilization and negotiation, public space as spaces of contestation and learning, public space as space of rescaling and re-politicizing, and public space as grounds of alter-politics. Mouffe has stated that liberal democracy has always been based on a democratic paradox between the liberal and the democratic strands of political thought. In the face of diminishing democratic institutions, political resistance and demonstrations in public space have a greater role to play in renewing and reinvigorating our democratic culture and institutions and pursuit for equity, egalitarian difference, and justice.
