Carving Out the Commons : Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. /

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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 organizat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Huron, Amanda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Diverse economies and livable worlds.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Commons > Washington (D.C.)
Tenants' associations > Washington (D.C.)
Housing, Cooperative > Washington (D.C.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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