S252603B / Public space, public power: How protest reshapes a city - U10

About this episode

The episode explores how protest movements reshape urban spaces and collective identity in cities like Serbia.

Public space and protest power explores how protest movements do more than express political demands; they actively reshape the city itself. Through the ongoing student protests in Serbia, the series explores how public spacebecomes a site of visibility, conflict, solidarity, and collective identity. Beginning with the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse and the institutional silence that followed, the podcast examines how grief turned into mobilization, and how student-led organizing transformed protest into arecurring urban rhythm. Across both episodes, protest is approached as an urban practice: something that reorganizes streets and squares, redefines everyday routines, and turns ordinary infrastructure into political terrain. By connecting political experience to spatial experience, Public space and protest power shows how democracy is not only debated. It is performed, negotiated, and made visible through the urban space. Public space, public power: How protest reshapes the city shifts the lens from protest as a political movement to protest as a spatial force. As demonstrations become recurring in Serbia, they begin to settle into the city’s everyday rhythm,reshaping…

People in this episode

Host: POLI.RADIO

Topics covered

• public space
• protest movements
• urban practice
• collective identity
• democracy
• student protests

Keywords

• public space
• protest
• urban rhythm
• collective identity
• democracy
• student protests
• visibility
• political terrain

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Serbia, Novi Sad, Beirut, Madrid, Belgrade

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