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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780429666902
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.2091732
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: towards an ethos for commoning the city -- Commoning urban nature -- Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property -- Responses to precarity -- Ethos of care: an emergent culture of commoning -- References -- PART 1: Commoning urban nature -- 1. Racial capitalism and a tentative commons: urban farming and claims to space in post-bankruptcy Detroit -- "New Detroit" -- Reproducing property disparity through the state -- Detroit's "civic commons" -- Commons and land access -- Enclosure -- Black geographies -- Bibliography -- 2. The politics of food: commoning practices in alternative food networks in Istanbul -- Food communities in Istanbul -- AFN members as commoners -- Impact of commoning practices -- AFNs as open-ended processes of commoning -- References -- 3. Insurgent ecologies: rhetorics of resistance and aspiration in Yedikule, Istanbul's ancient market garden (2014-2018) -- Walking among weeds -- Rupture of the market gardens -- Yedikule in motion: becoming an urban commons? -- A proletarian workplace -- Yedikule as urban commons: "the problem is not the gardens, but open space" -- A garden of world historical significance: fashioning a global commons -- Designing a public place within a conflict zone -- Do the gardeners speak? -- Remains of the day: reflections on a struggle -- A weedy hope -- Bibliography -- 4. "A revolution under our feet": food sovereignty and the commons in the case of Campi Aperti -- Food sovereignty: concept and practice -- Campi Aperti -- Campi Aperti as a commons -- The governance structure in Campi Aperti -- Practicing food sovereignty with agro-ecological commons -- Bibliography.
PART 2: Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property -- 5. Urban commoning and the right not to be excluded -- The right not to be excluded -- Urban manifestations of the RN2BE -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6. From graveyards to the "people's gardens": the making of public leisure space in Istanbul -- Taksim municipal garden -- From sprawling promenades to fenced-in gardens -- Taksim Republican Square and I˙nönü Esplanade (Gezi Park) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7. "Time to protect Kyrenia": defending the right to landscape in northern Cyprus -- Situating Kyrenia in space and time -- The rule of decrees and tourism development in Kyrenia -- Commoning and the Kyrenian landscape -- Kyrenia initiative: contesting laws, reclaiming the landscape -- The Sea for Free movement: defending the right to leisure and landscape -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8. A migrant's tale of two cities: mobile commons and the alteration of urban space in Athens and Hamburg -- Engaging with the commons: from commoning praxes to mobile commons -- The mobile common space: characteristics and perspectives -- Athens and Hamburg: urban terrains of crises and commoning -- Commoning public space -- Commoning personal space -- Commoning social space -- Migrants' commoning practices against the new enclosures: a reflection -- Bibliography -- PART 3: Responses to precarity -- 9. Contradictions of housing commons: between middle-class and anarchist models in Berlin -- Housing precarity and socioeconomic class responses -- Late urban neoliberalization in Berlin -- Urban commons -- Building group -- Bourgeois benevolence of privatized semi-open spaces -- Mietshäuser Syndikat -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10. Precarious commons: an urban garden for uncertain times -- Commons, precarity, care -- Commons-as-activity -- Precarity and care -- Becoming garden.
ZEN: welfare at the edge -- Care is critical -- Collaborative care: fragile beginnings -- In lieu of a conclusion: uncertain futures -- Bibliography -- 11. Cooperative economies as commons: labour and production in solidarity -- Commoning in the enterprise: from resources to relations -- Animating labour as commons -- Building a commoning front -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: towards an ethos for commoning the city -- Commoning urban nature -- Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property -- Responses to precarity -- Ethos of care: an emergent culture of commoning -- References -- PART 1: Commoning urban nature -- 1. Racial capitalism and a tentative commons: urban farming and claims to space in post-bankruptcy Detroit -- "New Detroit" -- Reproducing property disparity through the state -- Detroit's "civic commons" -- Commons and land access -- Enclosure -- Black geographies -- Bibliography -- 2. The politics of food: commoning practices in alternative food networks in Istanbul -- Food communities in Istanbul -- AFN members as commoners -- Impact of commoning practices -- AFNs as open-ended processes of commoning -- References -- 3. Insurgent ecologies: rhetorics of resistance and aspiration in Yedikule, Istanbul's ancient market garden (2014-2018) -- Walking among weeds -- Rupture of the market gardens -- Yedikule in motion: becoming an urban commons? -- A proletarian workplace -- Yedikule as urban commons: "the problem is not the gardens, but open space" -- A garden of world historical significance: fashioning a global commons -- Designing a public place within a conflict zone -- Do the gardeners speak? -- Remains of the day: reflections on a struggle -- A weedy hope -- Bibliography -- 4. "A revolution under our feet": food sovereignty and the commons in the case of Campi Aperti -- Food sovereignty: concept and practice -- Campi Aperti -- Campi Aperti as a commons -- The governance structure in Campi Aperti -- Practicing food sovereignty with agro-ecological commons -- Bibliography.

PART 2: Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property -- 5. Urban commoning and the right not to be excluded -- The right not to be excluded -- Urban manifestations of the RN2BE -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6. From graveyards to the "people's gardens": the making of public leisure space in Istanbul -- Taksim municipal garden -- From sprawling promenades to fenced-in gardens -- Taksim Republican Square and I˙nönü Esplanade (Gezi Park) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7. "Time to protect Kyrenia": defending the right to landscape in northern Cyprus -- Situating Kyrenia in space and time -- The rule of decrees and tourism development in Kyrenia -- Commoning and the Kyrenian landscape -- Kyrenia initiative: contesting laws, reclaiming the landscape -- The Sea for Free movement: defending the right to leisure and landscape -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8. A migrant's tale of two cities: mobile commons and the alteration of urban space in Athens and Hamburg -- Engaging with the commons: from commoning praxes to mobile commons -- The mobile common space: characteristics and perspectives -- Athens and Hamburg: urban terrains of crises and commoning -- Commoning public space -- Commoning personal space -- Commoning social space -- Migrants' commoning practices against the new enclosures: a reflection -- Bibliography -- PART 3: Responses to precarity -- 9. Contradictions of housing commons: between middle-class and anarchist models in Berlin -- Housing precarity and socioeconomic class responses -- Late urban neoliberalization in Berlin -- Urban commons -- Building group -- Bourgeois benevolence of privatized semi-open spaces -- Mietshäuser Syndikat -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10. Precarious commons: an urban garden for uncertain times -- Commons, precarity, care -- Commons-as-activity -- Precarity and care -- Becoming garden.

ZEN: welfare at the edge -- Care is critical -- Collaborative care: fragile beginnings -- In lieu of a conclusion: uncertain futures -- Bibliography -- 11. Cooperative economies as commons: labour and production in solidarity -- Commoning in the enterprise: from resources to relations -- Animating labour as commons -- Building a commoning front -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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.

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