Law, Social Movements and the Politics of the Commons

Cases from the Italian South

Veronica Pecile (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

154 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-37102-3 (ISBN)

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This book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis.

In a period of widespread activism against the privatisation of resources and services implemented through austerity policies, the reconceptualisation of property as a non-absolute and non-individualistic institution has attracted a great deal of attention. Drawing on the case of the Italian South, and in the wake of economic crisis, this book offers a critical analysis of the struggle for the commons. More specifically, as it details how discourses, legal tools and policies based on liberal ideas of the commons are deployed in the neoliberal restructuring of societies, the book considers how conflicting ideas of the commons express different, and often clashing visions, of urban space. In this regard, moreover, it shows how law plays a central, albeit ambivalent, role in the struggle for the commons: as both a governmental technique to discipline urban space and its residents and as an emancipatory tactic to advance non-proprietary visions of ownership.

This book will be of interest to scholars in socio-legal studies, property law, legal sociology and politics, as well as others with more general interests in the critical potential of contemporary social movements.

Veronica Pecile is an Affiliated Researcher at Lucernaiuris - Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Introduction: the commons under strain 1. The mobilisations for the commons in Palermo in the 2010s 2. On the politics of the commons: beni comuni as an empty signifier and Southern Italian neoliberalism 3. What does property have to do with this? Mistrust towards the law and ways out of it 4. Legal forms to the test of the Southern Italian commons: a non-proprietary ownership? Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-37102-1 / 1032371021
ISBN-13	978-1-032-37102-3 / 9781032371023
Zustand	Neuware