Urban Popular Economies
This collective considers issues of urban social reproduction, livelihood, and urban formations through a multiplicity of ground-level practices operating simultaneously within and outside the prevailing logics of capital accumulation.
Co-convened with the Consejo Latinamericano Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) and the Sheffield Desk on Popular Economy, this collective considers issues of urban social reproduction, livelihood, and urban formations through a multiplicity of ground-level practices operating simultaneously within and outside the prevailing logics of capital accumulation.
In both the reiterated and newly created gaps between what states imagine as the composition of settlements and urban economies it seeks to govern, and the actual dynamics of settlements and work at ground-level, what existing forms of popular economy are being seen in new ways and what new forms are likely to emerge in the working out of new relationships between governmental and administrative institutions, local communities, institutions, and collectives? As pandemic conditions provide new incentives and legitimacy for attempts on the part of states to formalise, straighten out, and curtail a wide range of settlement and work practices鈥攁t the same as implicitly needing them to endure as safety valves and 鈥渞eal economies鈥濃攚hat new forms of popular economy might emerge in this process? What opportunities might exist for workers to garner new rights and possibilities?
These questions formed the starting point for the initial workshop of the collective in September 2020.
Since then, through a series of workshops and collaborative activities, the collective has developed a glossary of critical concepts (to be published in Cityscapes), is preparing a collectively written article for a forthcoming special issue of Public Culture, and preparing a monograph for consideration by the 小欧视频 of Manchester Press.
Team
AbdouMaliq Simone Urban Institute, 小欧视频 of Sheffield
Alioscia Castronova 小欧视频 of San Martin, Sapienza 小欧视频 of Rome
Brij Maharaj 小欧视频 of KwaZulu Nata
Constance Smith 小欧视频 of Manchester
Cristina Cielo Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador
Gabriel Silvestre Urban Studies Program, 小欧视频 of Sheffield
Jo茫o Tonucci Federal 小欧视频 of Minas Gerais
Luci Cavallero 小欧视频 of Buenos Aires
Raquel Rolnik 小欧视频 of Sao Paolo
Solomon Benjamin Indian Institute of Technology Madras
V茅ronica Gago 小欧视频 of Buenos Aires
Victoria Habermehl Urban Institute, 小欧视频 of Sheffield