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OverviewCarving Out theCommonstheorizes 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amanda HuronPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517901974ISBN 10: 1517901979 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 13 March 2018 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsThrough 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 Author InformationAmanda Huron is assistant professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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