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"Urban commons encompass a series of collective social practices as well as a political principle that has re-emerged out of the struggles against neoliberal capitalism (Dardot & Laval 2019). They have become a lens through which to conceptualise social processes of collective (re)appropriation of urban resources. Engaging with the commons from an urban sociological perspective implies being attentive to the social groups that are involved in these processes and how they transform and are transformed by their urban context. Housing cooperativism can be understood as a form of urban commoning and has received renewed attention as one of the responses to the ‘return of the housing question’ (Hodkinson 2012). This chapter explores the potential, limits and contradictions of the cooperative route to urban housing commons in light of the experiences of three cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen and Montevideo" | "Urban commons encompass a series of collective social practices as well as a political principle that has re-emerged out of the struggles against neoliberal capitalism (Dardot & Laval 2019). They have become a lens through which to conceptualise social processes of collective (re)appropriation of urban resources. Engaging with the commons from an urban sociological perspective implies being attentive to the social groups that are involved in these processes and how they transform and are transformed by their urban context. Housing cooperativism can be understood as a form of urban commoning and has received renewed attention as one of the responses to the ‘return of the housing question’ (Hodkinson 2012). This chapter explores the potential, limits and contradictions of the cooperative route to urban housing commons in light of the experiences of three cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen and Montevideo" | ||
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* Article / Chapter: Urban commons in practice: housing cooperativism and city-making. Lorenzo Vidal.
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"Urban commons encompass a series of collective social practices as well as a political principle that has re-emerged out of the struggles against neoliberal capitalism (Dardot & Laval 2019). They have become a lens through which to conceptualise social processes of collective (re)appropriation of urban resources. Engaging with the commons from an urban sociological perspective implies being attentive to the social groups that are involved in these processes and how they transform and are transformed by their urban context. Housing cooperativism can be understood as a form of urban commoning and has received renewed attention as one of the responses to the ‘return of the housing question’ (Hodkinson 2012). This chapter explores the potential, limits and contradictions of the cooperative route to urban housing commons in light of the experiences of three cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen and Montevideo"