Emerging attention to the spatial dynamics of political contention points to the spatially situated nature of mobilization, and, in turn, how space is socially produced through collective action. Drawing from interviews and archival research, this article examines an urban university social movement organization and its relationship to a larger social movement network in an urban context. In response to university administrators’ adoption of neoliberal policy reform, student activists challenged sociospatial boundaries in their organizing across scale—in their university, the city, region, and across the nation. By adopting a strategy of solidarity, student activists collapsed the boundaries of the university and transformed it into a hub of Leftist social movement organizing for the city and beyond, redefining scale. Findings suggest that the development of urban social movement networks can be understood as a scalar strategy of solidarity for building social movement persistence and power. This social movement network emerged in response to market and State redefinition of urban meaning at the transition to the 21st century. This article illustrates how the sociospatial formation of urban social movement networks challenges the boundaries of contention.

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对抗规模：纽约市及其他地区城市社会运动的团结策略

对政治争端的空间动态的新关注指出了动员在空间上的位置性质，进而指出了如何通过集体行动在社会上产生空间。本文通过访谈和档案研究的方法，考察了城市大学的社会运动组织及其与城市环境中更大的社会运动网络的关系。为了响应大学行政人员对新自由主义政策改革的采用，学生激进主义者在大学，城市，地区和全国各地的组织中挑战了社会空间界限。通过采取团结战略，学生激进主义者瓦解了大学的边界，并将其转变为为城市及其他地区组织的左翼社会运动的中心，重新定义了规模。研究结果表明，城市社会运动网络的发展可以理解为建立社会运动的持久性和力量的统一的标量策略。这种社会运动网络是在向21世纪过渡的市场和国家对城市意义的重新定义中出现的。本文说明了城市社会运动网络的社会空间结构如何挑战竞争的边界。