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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-101786999978

ISBN-139781786999979

eBay Product ID (ePID)17050400734

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Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameHousing As Commons : Housing Alternatives As Response to the Current Urban Crisis

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHousing & Urban Development, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Economics / General

Publication Year2022

TypeTextbook

AuthorStavros Stavrides

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Business & Economics

SeriesIn Common Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2021-061521

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal363.51

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Revisiting the housing question: The potentialities of urban commoning Stavros Stavrides and Penny Travlou Part I Informal housing, infrastructures and commoning practices 1 Weaving commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Urgency, recognition, convergence Ana Fernandes, Glória Cecília Figueiredo and Gabriela Leandro Pereira 2 Activists infrastructures and commoning 'from below': The case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai Lalitha Kamath and Purva Dewoolkar 3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: Settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai Himanshu Burte 4 Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia Angus Cameron and Penny Travlou 5 Feeding together: The revolution starts in the kitchen Marc Gavaldà and Claudio Cattaneo Part II Cooperatives, squats and housing struggles 6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich Irina Davidovici 7 Urban commoning and popular power: The 'autonomous neighbourhoods' in Mexico City Stavros Stavrides 8 Berlin and the city as commons Mathias Heyden in conversation with Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Max Kaldenhoff 9 Refugee housing squats as shared heterotopias: The case of City Plaza Athens squat Nikolas Kanavaris 10 The Dandara community-occupation: Destitution-constitution movements towards urban commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) Lucia Capanema Alvares, João B. M. Tonucci Filho and Joviano Maia Mayer Part III In defence of the collective right to housing 11 Materializing the self-management: Tracking the commons in Yugoslav housing economy Jelica Jovanovic 12 A Greek activist's reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens Tonia Katerini 13 The power of public participation: Socio-economic impacts of urban development on the local commons in Egypt Mohamed Magdi Hagras 14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin Penny Travlou in conversation with Catalina Ortiz and Harry Smith 15 Housing policy as a form of urban governance: The Barbican Estate and the enclosure of the urban commons Ioanna Piniara Epilogue: Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans AbduMaliq Simone Index

SynopsisExperiences of struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing and foreclosure evictions as well as practices of establishing shared and self-managed housing areas, unfold in a world of harsh inequalities. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to think again about the need to define common urban worlds "from below', to trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define what is to be shared and how, in against and beyond the dominant. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture, and explore a variety of urban contexts in search for concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning., Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds "from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.

LC Classification NumberHD7287.3.H678 2022