The Politics of Urban Potentiality

Spatial Patterns of Emancipatory Commoning

Professor Stavros Stavrides (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-41394-8 (ISBN)

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This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis. It can result in establishing new habits of inhabiting city space, collective experiences shaping practices of urban commoning, re-inventing community relations, and freeing collaboration from capitalist expropriation. Instead of problematizing such radical change through the modernist belief in heroic unique acts, we need to explore the power dissident performances acquire when repeated. In search of an emancipatory politics of urban potentiality, commoning thus has the ability become a collective ethos based on mutuality and equality rather than merely a relatively fair way of sharing urban infrastructures.

In this book, the leading social and urban theorist Stavros Stavrides draws on a wide range of classic and historical thought on the urban question and social transformation. Drawing from research in Latin American urban movements, from activist participation in urban struggles in Greece, and citizen initiatives developed in Europe, this book expands the discussion on the potentialities of urban commoning to demonstrate how an emancipatory urban future may be achieved.

Stavros Stavrides is Professor of Architectural Design and Theory at The National Technical University of Athens. He is the author of Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (2019), Common Space: The City as Commons, (2016), Towards the City of Thresholds (2019) and co-editor with P. Travlou of Housing as Commons (2022).

Introduction: A Politics of Potentiality
Chapter 1: The Project of Urban Order
Chapter 2: Spatial Practices of Repeatability
Chapter 3: Challenging Urban Order
Chapter 4: Contested Imaginaries of Potentiality
Conclusion
Opening: Geometries of the future
Biography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	In Common
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-41394-1 / 1350413941
ISBN-13	978-1-350-41394-8 / 9781350413948
Zustand	Neuware