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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ostrom in the City: Design Principles and Practices for the Urban Commons

open access: yes, 2019
If cities are the places where most of the world’s population will be living in the next century, as is predicted, it is not surprising that they have become sites of contestation over use and access to urban land, open space, infrastructure, and culture.
Sheila Foster, Christian Iaione
core  

Commoning the compact city: The role of old and new commons in urban development [PDF]

open access: yes
Although densification is generally seen to contribute to more sustainable urban development, it is often linked to market-oriented and for-profit development, contributing to the enclosure of urban space.
Verheij, Jessica   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

De la résilience nourrie par les communs à la résistance productrice du commun

open access: yesRevue Internationale des Études du Développement
Ethnographies of dispossession of a global capitalism context, these case studies (nomadic pastoralists, oasis systems, urban ecologist movements in Sudan or Morocco) decipher situations of resilience from below’ sometimes categorized as “resistance ...
Barbara Casciarri
doaj   +1 more source

The poltics of urban commons

open access: yes, 2021
Η παρούσα διατριβή συζητάει την πολυεπίπεδη πολιτική διάσταση των αστικών κοινών όπως αυτή αναδύεται μέσα από διαδικασίες συμμετοχικής πολεοδομίας. Η αφετηρία της διατριβής είναι πως το αστικά κοινά αποτελούν μια θεωρητικά και πολιτικά αμφίσημη έννοια.
openaire   +1 more source

Theorizing the urban housing commons

open access: yes, 2017
This article theorizes the making and unmaking of the urban housing commons in Amsterdam. The article reviews the literature on the urban housing commons, sets out the analytics of use values and exchange values for housing, and situates these analytics ...
Don Nonini
core   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Emerging rights and commons in the Global South

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series
The commons are a new concept and a new institution that goes beyond old traditions such as communism, communitarianism, and communalist anarchism. Moreover, the theories of the commons imply a novelty compared to the classical notion of Common Good or ...
Fátima El Fakih   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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