ABSTRACT
Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice rather than an abstract professional field organized by institutions, politicians and movements.
Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces, conditions and circumstances in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens. We ask: How do emancipatory practices relate with public space under ‘post-political conditions’? In a time when democracy, solidarity and utopias are in crisis, we argue that productive emancipatory claims already exist in the lived space of everyday life rather than in the expectation of urban revolution and future progress.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |19 pages
Introduction
part I|61 pages
Everyday Emancipation. Beyond Utopia, Law and Institutions
chapter 3|16 pages
Applying a Relational Approach to Political Difference
chapter 4|15 pages
How to Reclaim Mafia-Controlled Territory?
chapter 5|13 pages
Improvising an Urban Commons of the Streets
part II|58 pages
Practical Emancipation. On Places, Projects and Events
chapter 6|14 pages
Rupturing, Accreting and Bridging
chapter 7|14 pages
Post-Political Development and Emancipation
chapter 8|14 pages
Urban Events Under the Post-Political Condition
chapter 9|14 pages
Emancipatory Research in the Arts
part III|66 pages
Critical Emancipation. On Romanticisms, Agonism and Liberation
chapter 10|15 pages
Alternative Participatory Planning Practices in the Global South
chapter 11|15 pages
Revitalizing the Yeldeğirmeni Neighbourhood in Istanbul
chapter 12|16 pages
Conflict vs. Consensus
part IV|59 pages
Active Emancipation. On Influence, Recovery and Hybrid Ownership
chapter 14|16 pages
‘The City Decides!’
chapter 15|14 pages
Emancipatory Practices of Self-Organized Workers in the Context of Neoliberal Policies
chapter 17|15 pages
Hybridizing ‘Ownership’ of Public Space
part |14 pages
Conclusion