Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network

<span class="abs_content">This empirical paper addresses a key problem for activists: how to resist capitalism while simultaneously responding to the immediate needs of the most marginalized segments of the population. Through the analysis of the case of Casa Madiba, a social center...

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Autor principal:	Greta Rauleac
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Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2020
Materias:	autonomy commons self-management squatting temporary use of space Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e4483feb589f4f899c1ae7f51c1e11a12021-11-21T15:11:42ZNavigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v13i3p1290https://doaj.org/article/e4483feb589f4f899c1ae7f51c1e11a12020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/23047https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">This empirical paper addresses a key problem for activists: how to resist capitalism while simultaneously responding to the immediate needs of the most marginalized segments of the population. Through the analysis of the case of Casa Madiba, a social center in Rimini (Italy), the paper discusses the role of squatting and the temporary use of space in the formation of the urban commons. It presents community-led urban development projects and bottom-up forms of welfare as potential tools to create a vision of the world that systematically opposes neoliberalism. It also considers some potential risks squatters face. Squatting has often been used as a placeholder by real estate investors or by the municipality, and even has the potential to be co-opted into master planning. The paper shows how squatters located in smaller towns can strategically adapt to the local social geography by creating strategic alliances which incorporate the tradition of partisan mutual help and social welfare in their day-to-day practice.</span><br />Greta RauleacCoordinamento SIBAarticleautonomycommonsself-managementsquattingtemporary use of spacePolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 1290-1307 (2020)
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description	<span class="abs_content">This empirical paper addresses a key problem for activists: how to resist capitalism while simultaneously responding to the immediate needs of the most marginalized segments of the population. Through the analysis of the case of Casa Madiba, a social center in Rimini (Italy), the paper discusses the role of squatting and the temporary use of space in the formation of the urban commons. It presents community-led urban development projects and bottom-up forms of welfare as potential tools to create a vision of the world that systematically opposes neoliberalism. It also considers some potential risks squatters face. Squatting has often been used as a placeholder by real estate investors or by the municipality, and even has the potential to be co-opted into master planning. The paper shows how squatters located in smaller towns can strategically adapt to the local social geography by creating strategic alliances which incorporate the tradition of partisan mutual help and social welfare in their day-to-day practice.</span><br />
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title	Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network
title_short	Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network
title_full	Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network
title_fullStr	Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network
title_full_unstemmed	Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network
title_sort	navigating the limits of capitalism to resist urban marginality: the case of the casa madiba network
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Navigating the Limits of Capitalism to Resist Urban Marginality: The Case of the Casa Madiba Network

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