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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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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 İnce and Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu
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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
