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

ISBN-13: 9781032173245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Derya Özkan; Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

　

O autorze

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.