Iolanda Bianchi

Barcelona

Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons and the local state. It critiques the dominant neo-institutionalist and neo-Marxist perspectives for their deterministic and siloed views, as well as their insufficient attention to the municipal scale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781032500768
• ISBN-10: 103250076X
• Artikelnr.: 73397647

Autorenporträt

Iolanda Bianchi (PhD in Political Science and PhD in Urban Planning) is an urban and political sociologist. She works in the field of urban governance, policy and collective action. Her research focuses on the interplay between public and collective action at the urban scale and examines how this interplay can generate governance, policy and social change to achieve more just, equitable and democratic cities. To advance knowledge in this debate, she works at the crossroads of commons and new municipalism theory. She currently holds a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellowship at the University of Barcelona. Previously, she was a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie fellow at the University of Antwerp and a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Inhaltsangabe

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 BComú
3.4 The urban commons-local state assemblage regime under BComú: urban
welfare and commons-sympathetic policies
3.5 Conclusion
4 Rhizomatic Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages: Can Batlló
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 Batlló sociocultural centre
4.4 Rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages under the BComú
government: the Can Batlló project and the Citizen Assets programme.
4.5 Conclusion
5 Arborescent Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages: The Case of the
Puigcerdà 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
Puigcerdà 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 BComú
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