Barcelona : Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements

1????????? Introduction: Situating Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages?

1.1?????? Introduction???

1.2?????? An emerging political practice in European cities: the politics of the urban commons

1.3?????? Urban commons-local state interactions: a siloed and deterministic understanding??

1.4?????? An epistemology for urban commons and local state interaction: urban commons-local state assemblages

1.5?????? Rhizomatic and arborescent assemblages: enhancing the politics of the urban commons

1.6?????? Researching urban commons-local state assemblages: Barcelona, case studies and methods

2????????? Beyond Neo-Marxist and Neo-Institutionalist Dichotomies: Commons-State Assemblages in the Municipal Context?

2.1?????? Introduction???

2.2?????? The re-emergence of the commons: the neo-institutionalist and the neo-Marxist perspectives?

2.3?????? The commons and the state: the neo-institutionalist and the neo-Marxist perspective????????

2.4?????? Bridging two perspectives: towards a more nuanced understanding of state-commons relationships?????????

2.5?????? The urban dimension of the commons: the ambivalent political possibilities of the urban context???????

2.6?????? Incorporating the local dimension of the state: the political opportunities offered by local government structures???????????

2.7?????? Conclusion?????

3????????? Urban Commons-Local State Assemblage Regimes in Barcelona??????

3.1?????? Introduction???

3.2?????? Urban commons-local state assemblage regimes: from the early twentieth century until the 2000s?????????

3.3?????? Urban commons-local state assemblage regimes: the 2007-8 financial crisis, urban movements and the rise of BComu????

3.4?????? The urban commons-local state assemblage regime under BComu: urban welfare and commons-sympathetic policies?

3.5?????? Conclusion?????

4????????? Rhizomatic Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages: Can Batllo Sociocultural Centre and the Citizen Asset Programme???????????

4.1?????? Introduction???

4.2?????? Building rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages: neighbourhood struggles, the neoliberalisation of urban development and the financial crisis???????????

4.3?????? Rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages under the conservative CiU government: the Can Batllo sociocultural centre?

4.4?????? Rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages under the BComu government: the Can Batllo project and the Citizen Assets programme.???

4.5?????? Conclusion?????

5????????? Arborescent Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages: The Case of the Puigcerda Informal Settlement, its Eviction and the Waste-Picking Cooperative

5.1?????? Introduction???

5.2?????? Building rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages: migration flows, the financial crisis and the rise of informal settlements

5.3?????? Dismantling the rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblage in the Puigcerda settlement: the eviction and the informal settlement plan under the conservative government?

5.4?????? Rebuilding an urban commons-local state assemblage in an arborescent form: the waste picking cooperative under the conservative and BComu government??????????

5.5?????? Conclusion?????

6????????? Conclusion

6.1?????? Strategies for enhancing the politics of the urban commons

6.2?????? Exploiting the local state’s rationalities and policy interventions: developing a strategically recalibrated approach to urban politics and building networks with social movements??????????

6.3?????? Navigating the tension between urban commons’ autonomy and local state support: building both self-governing and material autonomy

6.4?????? Occupying the local state: leveraging new municipalism to enhance the politics of the urban commons??

6.5?????? Avenues for future research???

Index