Defending Space in a Changing Urban Landscape – A Study on Urban Commons in Hyderabad, India

Kuttler, Tobias; Jain, Angela

doi:10.1515/9783038214953-005

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“…A look at international journals of scholarship on urban or social movement studies demonstrates that research on commons, and urban commons in particular, primarily refers to experiences in the Global North or is written by researchers working at an academic institution in the Global North. Clearly, this difference is not explained by a lack of urban commons experiences in the Global South or commoning movements (see e.g., Kuttler and Jain, 2015;Opazo, 2015). This discrepancy raises the importance that research on the Global South and by scholars working in this part of the world be given greater attention.…”

Section: Speaking Of Commons… Methodological Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Territorialized Commons and Social Movements: Legal Appropriations of Collective Spaces in Berlin and Santiago de Chile

Amacher

Kip

Opazo

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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This article aims to explore the relationship between territorialized commons and movements and how the use of legal strategies of appropriation mediates this relationship. We study two recent commoning practices for collective space in Berlin and Santiago de Chile that have appropriated publicly owned land for their initiative, engaging with legal institutions to meet the ends of the movement. This type of relationship to movements has not been given serious consideration in the commons literature and we ask how these commoning initiatives make the appropriated land a common resource for the movement and resist privatization. Based on secondary sources and interviews with activists, we conclude that both initiatives in Berlin and Santiago de Chile have drawn on legal frameworks for transformative purposes while also politicizing the question of public land as an asset for civic and commoning use. However, said frameworks do not replace activist engagement and self-organization as the main element behind commoning processes.

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Section: Speaking Of Commons… Methodological Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%