Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2010

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Book Size:
214 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780429664182
Related ISBNs:
9780429021886, 9780367076566, 9780367076566
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Taylor and Francis
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Edited by:
Derya Özkan
Edited by:
Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç

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