Russell, B. orcid.org/0000-0001-8307-6219 (2020) Making power emerge: municipalism and the right to the city. Soundings, 74 (March). pp. 95-111. ISSN 1362-6620
Abstract
Although the end of 2019 will be remembered by many as a time of failure, the last few years have also been a time of hope. This article draws lessons from the internationalist municipalist movement, and frames these experiences through the concepts of autogestion and the Right to the City. Municipalist political strategies can provide a radical re-articulation of this hope: to argue for a municipalist politics is to argue for place-based strategies that transform our relationship to our territories, with a focus on making new forms of power emerge. It is not an alternative to national and international perspectives, but rather the development of new ways of acting on these perspectives. Establishing the difference between progressive local government policy and a municipalist agenda, the article concludes by offering five propositions for the development of a municipalist coordination in one British city - Manchester.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Lawrence & Wishart. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2020 14:18 |
Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2020 14:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Lawrence and Wishart |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3898/soun.74.07.2020 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159197 |