Housing as Commons - Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds "from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. 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. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.>

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• Authors: Associate Professor Stavros Travlou Stavrides, Stavros Stavrides, Penny Travlou
• Assisted by: Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides (Editor), Stavros Stavrides (Editor), Penny Travlou (Editor), Travlou Penny (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781786999979
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-997-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 212 mm x 26 mm
• Series: In Common
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europe, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Welfare economics, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, The Americas, Society and culture: general, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Housing law, Relating to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Social security & welfare law