ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|63 pages
Commoning urban nature
chapter Chapter 1|12 pages
Racial capitalism and a tentative commons
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
The politics of food
chapter Chapter 3|18 pages
Insurgent ecologies
chapter Chapter 4|17 pages
“A revolution under our feet”
part 2|69 pages
Claims to urban land
chapter Chapter 6|19 pages
From graveyards to the “people’s gardens”
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
“Time to protect Kyrenia”
chapter Chapter 8|18 pages
A migrant’s tale of two cities
part 3|50 pages
Responses to precarity