Radical Municipalism

Iolanda Bianchi is an urban and political sociologist. Her research focuses on the interplay between public and collective action at the urban scale and examines how this interplay generates governance, policy and social change to achieve more just, equitable and democratic cities. She currently holds a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellowship at the University of Barcelona.Bertie Russell is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. His work focuses on ecosocial transition, alternative organisation and the politics of the common. He is co-director of Abundance, promoting public-common strategies to democratise the economy and support a just ecological transition.

• Foreword – Ismael Blanco and Ricard Gomá1. From New Municipalism to the Radical Municipalist Hypothesis: Rethinking the Public Through the Politics of the Common – Iolanda Bianchi and Bertie RussellPart I: Orientations2. The Radical Municipalist Hypothesis – Bertie Russell, Laura Roth and Matthew Thompson3. The Democratizing Potential of the Politics of the Common: The Becoming- Common of Public Services – Iolanda BianchiPart II: Barcelona4. Beyond Self-Management in Public-Common Partnerships: The Citizen Assets Programme – Iolanda Bianchi5. Governing Jauja: Informality, Urban Bordering and Social Innovation in Barcelona – Carlos Delclós6. Evolving Policy Communities for Public-Cooperative Housing Commons in New Municipalist Barcelona – Mara Ferreri and Lorenzo Vidal7. Energy Commoning in Barcelona: A Review of Current Experiences – Anaïs Varo and Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi8. Democratising Social Care: On Care Neighbourhoods in Barcelona – David Palomera and Angelina KussyPart III: Europe9. Pharmaceuticals in Common? Public-Common Partnerships in the French Pharmaceutical Sector – Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn and Kai Heron10. Is There Sunlight at the End of the Pipeline? The Case of Solarna Stara, Serbia – Ana Džokić, Dragan Djunda, Marc Neelen11. Recommoning Water: Terrassa’s Citizen-Driven Remunicipalisation – Dona Geagea, Maria Kaika and Jampel Dell’Angelo12. Hacking ‘Technical’ Decision-Making as a New Municipalist Strategy: The Case of Neapolitan Urban Commons – Francesca De Tullio and Giuseppe Micciarelli13. “Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen” in Berlin: Socializing Housing at a Large Scale – Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg and Tim WihlPart IV: The Americas14. The California Public Banking Movement – Thomas M. Hanna and Aaryaman Singhal15. Social Control and Public Water: Transformative Participation in Cochabamba’s Water Remunicipalization – Nasya S. Razavi16. Education as Commons: Social Management in a Radical Educational Initiative in Rosario, Argentina – Marilín López Fittipaldi and Gabriel Silvestre17. Commoning With and Against the State: Lessons From Ecuador’s Deep Periphery – Karin Friederic and Brian J. Burke18. Towards a Democratic Road to Socialism: Scale, Law, and Ownership in the Radical Municipalist Hypothesis – Iolanda Bianchi and Bertie Russell

“Grounded in post-crisis new municipalist experiences, this excellent collection fuses Poulantzas's democratic socialism with commons-based solutions for democratic alternatives beyond capitalism", Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow.