ISBN:
9780755638932
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
Series Statement:
In Common
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.484
Keywords:
Social movements
;
Communities
;
Greece
;
Greece Social life and customs
Abstract:
"This book is the first attempt to rethink and appraise the role of temporary commoning experiences that develop in contexts of crisis. Activist and urban planner, Angelos Varvarousis, argues that there is a certain type of commons - the liminal commons - which despite their often short lives play a crucial function in contemporary societies; they demarcate and facilitate transitions at the individual, collective and ultimately the societal level. Through an intense exploration of grassroots projects such as occupied squares, self-organised refugee camps, solidarity food structures and social clinics in crisis-ridden Greece, the author observes that humans still invent such collectively performed rituals in order to prepare, symbolize and practically explore the possibility of transformation and transition. In a period in which traditional rites of passage have faded away but many changes are urgently needed, liminal commons can be a key element in the process of claiming awareness and control over the mechanisms of individual, collective and societal emancipation."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1: The liminal commons -- Chapter 2: Subjects in crisis -- Chapter 3: Commons in expansion -- Chapter 4: Protecting the commons -- Chapter 5: Trust, altruism and solidarity Epilogue: Rituals and transformations.
Note:
Also published in print
DOI:
10.5040/9780755638932
URL:
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