 | Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics Subjects: Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Law; Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Environment & the City; Environmental Law - Environmental Studies; Environmental Law - Law; Land Law; Legal Theory; Planning Law; Property & Conveyancing Law; Socio-Legal Studies; Urban Studies; Cities & Infrastructure; Human Geography; Sociology & Social Policy; Urban Geography; Environmental Geography; Planning - Human Geography; Urban Sociology; 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. 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. |
