Description
Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds “from below”. Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.Period | 6 Feb 2024 |
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Held at | University of St Andrews, United Kingdom |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- housing crisis
- the commons
- alternative housing
- informal housing
- Global South
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Research output
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Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Chapter 4: Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Chapter 13: From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Tensions around Housing in the Collaborative Economy: Resisting against Platform Capitalism in Athens
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Introduction: Revisiting the housing question: The potentialities of urban commoning
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Activities
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Learning from the Squares
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Book Discussion: "Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis"
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar