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3 Inclusivity and changing organisational forms [T]he constraints to cyberactivism are largely those that hobble other political involvement: commitment, time, money, expertise . . . those who may benefit the most from counterhegemonic uses of the Net may have the least access to it. (Warf and Grimes 1997: 270) In addition to the paradox surrounding their use of computers, environmentalists face problems in gaining access to CMC. Access is obviously a prerequisite for the use of the technology, but the ways in which activists organise their access can reflect
Commoning architectures 27 2 Commoning architectures Contested common worlds and the role of architecture The role of public space in molding city politics has been extensively theorized and studied. The shaping of citizenship and the establishment of citizen rights have been connected to struggles over and in public space, as well as to discourses that problematize public space as a constituent element of public life. It would be accurate to say that public space has formed the terrain for crises of citizenship more often than it has provided the stable
Epilogue: On the rocks road Andrew McNeillie Figure 27 Bothar na gCreag (photo by Andrew McNeillie). There . . . Preserve us I say From narrow-gauge minds But not narrow roads With green spines Where the heart’s affections 238 Andrew McNeillie Put best foot forward: Between two stone walls Built to the rhythm Of rock-form and contour Of labour and time Straight as a die Dipping in and out of sight Opening and narrowing Ahead behind – behind ahead In threadbare karst country Grown where nothing grows Better than light and lichen Rare alpine, common
This book explores contemporary urban experiences connected to practices of sharing and collaboration. Part of a growing discussion on the cultural meaning and the politics of urban commons, it uses examples from Europe and Latin America to support the view that a world of mutual support and urban solidarity is emerging today in, against, and beyond existing societies of inequality. In such a world, people experience the potentialities of emancipation activated by concrete forms of space commoning. By focusing on concrete collective experiences of urban space appropriation and participatory design experiments this book traces differing, but potentially compatible, trajectories through which common space (or space-as-commons) becomes an important factor in social change. In the everydayness of self-organized neighborhoods, in the struggles for justice in occupied public spaces, in the emergence of “territories in resistance,” and in dissident artistic practices of collaborative creation, collective inventiveness produces fragments of an emancipated society.
and enduring (171). Simmel compares it to a timeless ‘portrait’ and a ‘work of art’, even pointing to the fact that a bridge will give to a landscape a ‘“picturesque”’ quality (172); he is emphasising the importance of both bridges and doors as artistic motifs. Whilst Simmel is not specifically concerned with one important form of border-crossing, migration, his series of images might evoke it as an underlying ‘master narrative’. One could say that migrants follow routes (paths), they pass through crossing points (bridges), they are excluded and
7 Limits to growth? Why gardening has limited success growing inclusive communities Hannah Pitt Introduction As this collection’s introduction highlights, heavy expectations are placed on urban gardens’ ability to advance social and spatial justice. Community is central to these: as outcomes of garden practices, it is taken as evidence of social inclusion as people form relationships of trust and mutual-dependence. As both mode of garden activity and mechanism of its achievements, community is seen to represent an inclusive approach to addressing injustice
Space as potential 5 1 Space as potential Commoning experience What this work attempts to establish is a rethinking of the possibility of human emancipation through a rethinking of space: space considered both as a concrete social reality (city, house, public space, territory) and as a form, a pattern, which is employed, along with other forms, to establish and reproduce the contested meanings of social reality. Space is considered both the locus of experience and a powerful means for constructing thoughts on and representations of what exists. In terms of
from the role that wealth creation plays in creating inequality (Dorling 2010; Sayer 2015). Except that the structural causes of inequality remain unexamined and unchallenged. Everything changes so that nothing changes. 1.1 Gattopardo politics Dissembling and damage control are to be expected from the likes of the IMF, which, as architect and chief enforcer of structural adjustment, has form on inequality. But much of the noise around inequality emanating from the mainstream Left also amounts to what academics (and self-styled ‘bourgeois radicals’) Ewald Engelen and
-based networks of tracking and tracing on the ground contrasted with the grim spectacle seen in the capital of global finance in New York. Between countries, differences were commonly attributed to the particular combinations of strong public health infrastructure, successful state surveillance of private mobility data and social control in places with strong state institutional capacity such as China and Korea, reflecting national political contexts and institutional forms. Clearly, what was at stake was a moment when global forces landed locally, reconfiguring the DNA of
Figure 12). Collins’s film-making and Robinson’s map-making contain similarities in their structural process, particularly in what both ultimately attempt to achieve – capturing the many identities of the Connemara landscape through a form of cultural mediation. It is, however, with some trepidation that I attempt to draw parallels between two quite distinct forms of documentary production. The process of mapping and film-making are obviously different in many ways.What I want to suggest is that Collins and Robinson share a similar approach in their own forms of