A mosaic of activist practices unfolds across multiple European cities where the body becomes both a subject and an agent of urban transformation, articulating a political language rooted in presence, gesture, and occupation; this ethnographic inquiry, situated at the intersection of political anthropology, urban studies, and social movement theory, traces the movements, performances, and resistances of activist groups between 2008 and 2012, following a premise that posits the city not as a static backdrop but as a space in flux, continuously redefined by the actions of embodied agents; the analysis holds that urban change shapes the body, but equally, that the body reshapes the city through tactical deployment—whether as a visible protest, a performative disruption, or an occupation of space that contests normative urban logics; in this framework, the body becomes a political tool, a medium through which power relations are not only revealed but also subverted, transforming streets and public squares into arenas of dispute and co-creation; this reciprocal tension between corporal expression and spatial reconfiguration positions both elements—the body and the city—as the first territories of the political, where the grammar of dissent materializes in choreographies of resistance and collective action; thus, defining the tactics of the body, clarifying the operational logics of activism, and mapping the spatialized dimensions of resistance becomes essential to understanding how contemporary urban struggles are embodied and how culture is enacted through everyday insurgencies. Diz, C. (2015) ‘Políticas y tácticas del cuerpo: retablos de la ciudad activista’. Universidade da Coruña.
