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Carving Out the Commons

- Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Af: Amanda Huron Engelsk Hardback

Carving Out the Commons

- Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Af: Amanda Huron Engelsk Hardback
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An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities

Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them. 

In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” through a close investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life. 

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An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities

Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them. 

In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” through a close investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life. 

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9781517901967
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1517901960
Kategori: Bysamfund
Udg. Dato: 13 mar 2018
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 223mm
Højde: 146mm
Forlag: University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato: 13 mar 2018
Forfatter(e): Amanda Huron
Forfatter(e) Amanda Huron

Kategori Bysamfund

ISBN-13 9781517901967

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 223mm

Højde 146mm

Udg. Dato 13 mar 2018

Oplagsdato 13 mar 2018

Forlag University of Minnesota Press

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