Commoning the City

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Commoning the City

Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics

Interdisciplinary studies Urban communities Sociology Jurisprudence and general issues Environment law Planning law Conveyancing law Social law and Medical law Human geography The environment Urban and municipal planning and policy

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Collection: Space, Materiality and the Normative

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 10th March 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9780429664182


This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.

The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening and land stewardship, collaborative housing experiments, alternative food networks, claims to urban leisure space, migrants’ appropriation of urban space and workers’ cooperatives/collectives. The analysis pursued by the eleven chapters opens new fields of research in front of us: the entanglements of racial capitalism with enclosures and of black geographies with the commons, the critical history of settler colonialism and indigenous commons, law as a force of enclosure and as a strategy of commoning, housing commons from the urban scale perspective, solidarity economies as labour commons, territoriality in the urban commons, the non-territoriality of mobile commons, the new materialist and post-humanist critique of the commons debate and feminist ethics of care.

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