The panel is dedicated to forms of protest, social movements, the city and inequality from the perspective of urban and movement research (Mayer 2013, Daniel 2021) in the context of current challenges. It takes a closer look on protest forms and modi of organization of protest. It explores the question of what findings urban research has on inequality in urban contexts. The format is related to topics of urban sociology and interdisciplinary urban research: unequally distributed resources, opportunities to participate in decision-making processes and social movements that demand these rights. The positioning of research in these contexts and the various approaches in this context are also examined. This means that not only the aspects that structure inequality is considered, but also the actors who negotiate in decision-making processes in the city, such as planners, urban policy (Adam/Vonderau 2014; Kaschuba 2015) and social movements (Aigner/Kunig 2018; Dlabaja 2021; Holm 2014; Mayer 2013). Social inequalities manifest themselves in urban contexts in a variety of ways, along the lines of housing, labour and gender relations, but also the opportunity to vote. The opportunities to participate in decision-making processes and the design of one’s own urban environment or to appropriate spaces are also unequally distributed and are a driving factor for involving in protest movements. The panel seeks for contributions from current protest research related to climate change, commodification of housing and related to it gentrification and touristification, unequal possibilities of involvement into decision making processes. Contributions dealing with forms of protest or with the mechanisms of inequality and actor relations, as well as with the theory of social movements, are equally welcome.