| Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis Contributor(s): Stavrides, Stavros (Editor), Angelis, Massimo De (Editor), Travlou, Penny (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1786999978 ISBN-13: 9781786999979 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Housing & Urban Development - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Experiences of the 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 re-think 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. |