Carving out the commons : tenant organizing and housing cooperatives in Washington, D.C. /
An investigation of the practice of "commoning" in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizati...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Diverse economies and livable worlds.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "we shall not be moved!"
- 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 : keep practicing.
