Across cities of the global South, major initiatives are underway to assemble land from
informal settlements in order to make it available for large-scale infrastructure and …

In this introductory chapter, we provide a rationale for the book and review the key
theoretical underpinnings of critical posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory …

While the concept of Commons has acquired politicized meanings, it has also acquired
some de-politicized ones. This article analyses a case of de-politicization of this concept …

The social solidarity economy (SSE), as an alternative paradigm to crisis-prone market-
driven capitalism, gained significant momentum during the last decade in cities such as …

The article interrogates the concept of the urban in relation to digital platforms designed for
citizen-based initiatives and local projects. We must broaden our scope as urban scholars to …

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing
attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity …

Theorists of the commons appear to have rather siloed, ideologically driven understandings
of the repertoires of governance strategies enacted by the state in the emergence and …

Public goods have been neglected, if not outright rejected, by the anti-capitalist literature,
which favors “commons.” This article argues that equal attention should be given to …

Em diferentes cidades ao redor do mundo, a ideia do comum urbano tem sido invocada por
movimentos, pesquisadores e até por formuladores de política pública para reivindicar e …

The article discusses contemporary Polish 'right to the city'movements and their potential for
creating change, described here as the potential for 'alternative modernization', a term …