Just a few days ago the text was made open access, so I am sharing it here with you.
While writing the piece, I found out it was difficult to produce a coherent narrative on grassroots politics and urban commoning without falling into cliches, exaggerations and simplifications. Reflecting the complexity of struggles in a context of generalized mobilization in the 3000-word essay format has been a challenge.
If you have some 40 mins to spare, below is the link to a video of my keynote speech at the TRISE conference in early September, where I address the same issue, with a more theoretical approach, especially in regard to collective identities and the concept of "rights".
As always, your comments, reflections, disagreements, invectives, etc are welcome. :-)
Cheers,
Teo
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