Commoning the City

Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-07656-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Space, Materiality and the Normative

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Özkan, Derya

Baykal Büyüksaraç, Güldem

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht Grundstücks- und Immobilienrecht, Immobiliarsachenrecht, Nachbarrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Kommunal- und Baurecht Raumordnung, Städtebau, Wohnungsbaurecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of contributors



Introduction. Towards an Ethos for Commoning the City: An Introduction, Derya Özkan and Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç

PART 1. COMMONING URBAN NATURE

Chapter 1. Racial capitalism and a tentative commons. Urban farming and claims to space in post-bankruptcy Detroit, Rachael Baker

Chapter 2. The Politics of Food. Commoning Practices in Alternative Food Networks in Istanbul, Ayça Ince and Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu

Chapter 3. Insurgent Ecologies: Rhetorics of Resistance and Aspiration in Istanbul’s Ancient Market Gardens (2014-2018), Charles Zerner

Chapter 4. "A Revolution under our feet": Food Sovereignty and the Commons in the case of Campi Aperti, Massimo De Angelis and Dagmar Diesner

PART 2. CLAIMS TO URBAN LAND: BEYOND PUBLIC - PRIVATE PROPERTY

Chapter 5. Urban commoning and the right not to be excluded, Nicholas Blomley

Chapter 6. From graveyards to the ‘people’s gardens’: The making of public leisure space in Istanbul, Berin Golonu

Chapter 7. "Time to protect Kyrenia": defending the right to landscape in northern Cyprus, Ezgican Özdemir

Chapter 8. A migrant’s tale of two cities: Mobile Commons and the alteration of urban space in Athens and Hamburg, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Vasiliki Makrygianni

PART 3. RESPONSES TO PRECARITY

Chapter 9. Contradictions of housing commons: between middle class and anarchist models in Berlin, Kenton Card

Chapter 10. Precarious Commons. An Urban Garden for Uncertain Times, Elke Krasny

Chapter 11. Cooperative Economies as Commons: Labor and Production in Solidarity, Bengi Akbulut

Über Autor(innen)

Derya Özkan: Department of Cinema and Digital Media, Izmir University of Economics.

Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç: Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (2019–2020), Koç University and Department of Anthropology, Istanbul University.