(New) Municipalism

Roth, Laura

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“…This concept, sometimes also called ‘new municipalism’, encompasses forms of politics taking the local as the main level of action and aiming at giving power to the people through various forms of political action, whether electoral or not. In this sense, Roth (2019: 1) defines new municipalism asa political strategy that differs from others in the fact that it not only pursues building power from a specific place (the local level) but also in its approach towards politics. Its aim is twofold: to implement progressive policies, but also to radically change the way politics is done.…”

Section: Ideas In the Field: Libertarian Municipalism In Commercymentioning

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“…The contribution studies the specific strategy it adopted, that of running for elections to give power to the assembly that gathers the town residents. Unlike other municipalist experiments opting for the electoral strategy in Spain (Blanco et al, 2020;Bua and Bussu, 2021;Janoschka and Mota, 2021;Ordo´n˜ez et al, 2018;Roth et al, 2019;Russell, 2019) or in France (Gourgues et al, 2020), the one of Commercy has not acceded to power. However, analysing this case enables us to capture tensions when aiming to establish direct democracy through representative democracy.…”

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Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy

Outryve

2023

Urban Studies

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Among the many criticisms carried by the Yellow Vests movement, criticisms related to representative government as a mode of exercising power occupy a prominent place and find resonance within the broader contemporary crisis of representative democracy. In the face of this crisis, the Yellow Vests movement has put forward many alternative propositions for direct democracy. This contribution focuses on the local experiment of assembly direct democracy that has taken place in the municipality of Commercy, a town in the Meuse region of Eastern France, from the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement to the municipal elections of March 2020. The contribution studies the specific strategy the movement adopted, that of running for elections to give power to the assembly that gathers the town residents. As the movement created a form of direct democracy – the assembly – to mark its opposition to representative democracy, and then used the paradigmatic mechanism of representative democracy – the elections – to give power to the assembly, it enables an understanding of how a movement navigated the dialectical relationship between representative and direct democracy in the framework of a libertarian municipalist electoral strategy and the tensions that have arisen in the process.

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Section: Ideas In the Field: Libertarian Municipalism In Commercymentioning

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Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy

Outryve

2023

Urban Studies

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“…Here, the new municipalism goes beyond past progressive cities movements that have been reliant on political leaders. Rather, it embraces a 'participatory way of doing things' (Boulton et al, 2019) or what others have called a 'networked collaboration' (Roth, 2019) or 'confluence' (Junqué et al, 2019) to build a municipal platform and link citizens to a public form of governance. Barcelona en Comú is internally democratic with over 15,000 members and is structured to prevent oligarchical tendencies.…”

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A future research agenda for transformational urban policy studies

Joy

Vogel

2022

Policy &Amp; Politics

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There is a gap between the policy problems faced by twenty-first century cities and their proposed solutions, which are often small-scale, siloed and unsustainable. Cities face growing poverty, a rise in precarious work, unaffordable housing, decaying infrastructure, climate change, social polarisation and, most recently, a deadly infectious disease. The urban crisis is rooted in the failures of neoliberal policy characteristic of advanced capitalism, intersected with other systems of oppression. Turning the clock back to liberal urban policymaking will be insufficient. We propose a policy agenda that studies transformative urban movements, including local activism and movement building, policy agenda-setting and design, and policy implementation and evaluation. While these are the expertise of scholars of urban politics and policy studies, transformative urban movements have not been on their radar. In this article, we explore why and examine how urban politics and policy studies can ground and support transformative change.

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“…For Bookchin (1987Bookchin ( , 2015, accessing this immediate, phenomenological level of human life is fundamental for municipalist transformation, as the 'hierarchical mentality' of capital, state and other forms of domination is embedded in society at a 'molecular' level. The enduring allure of face-to-face, non-hierarchical, deliberative dialogue in popular assemblies for the reformation of civic character and political subjectivities through confrontation with the desires and rationalities of others underpins radical municipalism (Bookchin, 2015;Roth, 2019b;Shelley, 2022); a school in the art and craft of collective self-government.…”

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“…Writing almost a decade on from the first stirrings of new municipalism – its figurehead Barcelona en Comú was formed in mid-2014 – this is an opportune moment to take stock and reflect on the achievements of a movement only just beginning to come of age. As municipalist praxis has proliferated, so too have descriptors and typologies, with multiple municipalist monikers springing up across this diverse field; prefixes range from ‘new’ (Roth, 2019a, 2019b; Russell, 2019) and ‘democratic’ (Shelley, 2022) to ‘autonomist’, ‘platform’ and ‘managed’ (Thompson, 2021b) to ‘pragmatic’ (Warner, 2023) and ‘entrepreneurial’ (Thompson et al, 2020) to ‘degrowth’ (Vansintjan, 2018) and ‘post-growth’ (Schmid, 2023). With the publication of this double special issue, we can add many more: care municipalism (Kussy et al, 2023), southern municipalism (Pinto et al, 2023), peripheral municipalism (Toro and Orozco, 2023), territorial municipalism (Arpini et al, 2023) and weak municipalism (Béal et al, 2023).…”

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Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis

2023

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As new municipalism comes of age, prefixes proliferate: from democratic and autonomist to post-growth and care municipalisms. How do all these variegations relate to each other and to the wider movement of which they claim a part? What does all this conceptual creativity amount to, epistemologically and politically? How can we distill the most salient lessons for the further development of theory and practice in the years ahead? This article is our attempt to answer such questions and to define more precisely the contours of this emerging field of praxis. First, we delineate within new municipalism the target of our analytical gaze – radical municipalism. Radical municipalism is not simply progressive policies happening in cities, and should not be conflated with pragmatic, entrepreneurial or state-centric perspectives. Rather, we argue it is a speculative hypothesis about how systemic transformation might be wrought through coordinated action at the urban or municipal scale, understood as a strategic entry-point for counter-hegemonic struggle. Key here is proximity and the politicisation and socialisation of proximate relations of encounter and assembly. Second, we delve deeper into what we identify as four salient dimensions marking this terrain – economic reorganisation, democratisation of political decision-making, feminisation of politics, ecological transformation – as a multi-dimensional lens through which to introduce, and situate within the wider literature, the 15 articles that comprise this double special issue. Throughout these contributions to the theory and practice of municipalist strategy, the issue of crisis looms large: both historically, as an animating spur to action and opportunity for political intervention, and operationally, as a structuring condition and limiting factor of a strategy arguably in crisis itself. Finally, we reflect on the epistemological, methodological and political implications of pursuing radical municipalist strategies in the current conjuncture.

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(New) Municipalism

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Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy

Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy

A future research agenda for transformational urban policy studies

Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis

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