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DESCRIPTION:Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, 
 tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to 
 collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants 
 were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used 
 to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was 
 collectively owned by them.\n\nIn Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron 
 theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” through a close 
 investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing 
 on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons 
 can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how 
 strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and 
 maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against 
 the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons 
 as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, 
 we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing 
 claims over life.\n\n“Through interviews and historical research, Amanda 
 Huron gives us an in-depth description of the formation of a housing 
 cooperative in Washington, D.C. in the ’70s and develops a theoretical 
 structure enabling us to generalize this experience to other cities.” 
 --Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and 
 Primitive Accumulation\n\n“Amanda Huron illuminates new ways of thinking 
 what social justice in the City can look like. Her writing is rigorous yet 
 upholds the dignity of the people she studies and their attempts to stake 
 out a right to their city. Carving Out the Commons will be a go-to both for 
 academics and organizers in the coming years.” --James Tracy, author of 
 Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing 
 Wars\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/22/18808655.php
SUMMARY:Solving Housing Crisis By Turning to the Commons - Author Reading
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/22/18808655.php
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