Commoning the city : empirical perspectives on urban ecology, economics and ethics / edited by Derya Özkan and Güldem Baykal Büyüksarac.

"This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics. The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus - on urban gardening and land stewardship, collaborative housing experiments, alternative food networks, claims to urban leisure space, migrants' appropriation of urban space, workers' cooperatives/collectives. The analysis pursued by the eleven chapters open new fields of research in front of us: the entanglements of racial capitalism with enclosures and of black geographies with the commons, the critical history of settler colonialism and indigenous commons, law as a force of enclosure, and as a strategy of commoning, housing commons from the urban scale perspective, solidarity economies as labour commons, territoriality in the urban commons, the non-territoriality of mobile commons, the new materialist and post-humanist critique of the commons debate, and feminist ethics of care"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: towards an ethos for commoning the city -- Commoning urban nature -- Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property -- Responses to precarity -- Ethos of care: an emergent culture of commoning -- References -- PART 1: Commoning urban nature -- 1. Racial capitalism and a tentative commons: urban farming and claims to space in post-bankruptcy Detroit -- "New Detroit"

Reproducing property disparity through the state -- Detroit's "civic commons" -- Commons and land access -- Enclosure -- Black geographies -- Bibliography -- 2. The politics of food: commoning practices in alternative food networks in Istanbul -- Food communities in Istanbul -- AFN members as commoners -- Impact of commoning practices -- AFNs as open-ended processes of commoning -- References -- 3. Insurgent ecologies: rhetorics of resistance and aspiration in Yedikule, Istanbul's ancient market garden (2014-2018) -- Walking among weeds -- Rupture of the market gardens

Yedikule in motion: becoming an urban commons? -- A proletarian workplace -- Yedikule as urban commons: "the problem is not the gardens, but open space" -- A garden of world historical significance: fashioning a global commons -- Designing a public place within a conflict zone -- Do the gardeners speak? -- Remains of the day: reflections on a struggle -- A weedy hope -- Bibliography -- 4. "A revolution under our feet": food sovereignty and the commons in the case of Campi Aperti -- Food sovereignty: concept and practice -- Campi Aperti -- Campi Aperti as a commons

The governance structure in Campi Aperti -- Practicing food sovereignty with agro-ecological commons -- Bibliography -- PART 2: Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property -- 5. Urban commoning and the right not to be excluded -- The right not to be excluded -- Urban manifestations of the RN2BE -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6. From graveyards to the "people's gardens": the making of public leisure space in Istanbul -- Taksim municipal garden -- From sprawling promenades to fenced-in gardens -- Taksim Republican Square and I?nönü Esplanade (Gezi Park) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography

7. "Time to protect Kyrenia": defending the right to landscape in northern Cyprus -- Situating Kyrenia in space and time -- The rule of decrees and tourism development in Kyrenia -- Commoning and the Kyrenian landscape -- Kyrenia initiative: contesting laws, reclaiming the landscape -- The Sea for Free movement: defending the right to leisure and landscape -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8. A migrant's tale of two cities: mobile commons and the alteration of urban space in Athens and Hamburg -- Engaging with the commons: from commoning praxes to mobile commons

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