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Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in by Huron
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperativ
- Publication Date
- 2018-03-13
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781517901974
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Carving Out the Commons : Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Urban & Regional, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Series
- Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
1517901979
ISBN-13
9781517901974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240131747
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Carving Out the Commons : Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Urban & Regional, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Series
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-042829
Reviews
"Through interviews and historical research, Amanda Huron gives us an in-depth description of the formation of a housing cooperative in Washington, D.C. in the '70s and develops a theoretical structure enabling us to generalize this experience to other cities. It is a incisive book that speaks to a vital issue in contemporary politics and social theory."--Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation "Amanda Huron illuminates new ways of thinking what social justice in the City can look like. Her writing is rigorous yet upholds the dignity of the people she studies and their attempts to stake out a right to their city. Carving Out the Commons will be a go-to both for academics and organizers in the coming years."--James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing Wars " Carving Out the Commons offers deep and carefully researched insight into alternative ways to imagine, organize, and enact the urban commons that, if more broadly realized, could improve life for many. This important book should be read by students of the city as well as those trying to make it more socially just."--Nik Heynen, University of Georgia, "Investigating urban commons in the context of rapid and increasing urbanization is a critical endeavour. Ultimately, the book argues that the commons, as exemplified by the housing cooperatives, is "a pragmatic practice to be pursued, within and between and against capitalist practices" (page 155). The commons, and particularly urban commons, is a potential pathway to building a post-capitalist world." -- Environment & Urbanization, "Investigating urban commons in the context of rapid and increasing urbanization is a critical endeavour. Ultimately, the book argues that the commons, as exemplified by the housing cooperatives, is "a pragmatic practice to be pursued, within and between and against capitalist practices" (page 155). The commons, and particularly urban commons, is a potential pathway to building a post-capitalist world." -- Environment Urbanization
Series Volume Number
2
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction 1. What Is the Commons? Merging Two Perspectives 2. The Urban Commons: Contradictions of Community, Capital, and the State 3. Forged in Crisis: Claiming a Home in the City 4. A Decent Grounds for Life: The Benefits of Limited-Equity Cooperatives 5. Survival and Collapse: Keeping and Losing Housing Over Time 6. Commoning in the Capitalist City Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Carving Out theCommons theorizes the practice of urban "commoning" inWashington, D.C., through an investigation of the city's limitedequity housingcooperatives. It asks whether a commons can work in a city where land andresources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future cometogether to create commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism., 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.
LC Classification Number
HD7287.72.U6H87 2018
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