
Commoning Care & Collective Power
Childcare Commons and the Micropolitics of Municipalism in Barcelona
Manuela Zechner(Author)
transversal texts (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2021
Book
238 pages
978-3-903046-31-3 (ISBN)
Description
Commoning Care & Collective Power traces the twin genealogies of childcare commons and the micropolitics of municipalism in Barcelona. It shows how grassroots movements engaged new institutional experiments after Spain's 15M movement, marked by struggles for social reproduction and a new feminist politics, leading towards commons municipalisms. Interested in both struggles for and to care, this book looks across subjective and collective processes. Interdependence and autonomy, care and micropolitics, building power and commons, neighbourhood and city: those are some of the terms brought into resonant tension. Zechner honours the groundwork of mothers' networks and commons nurseries, telling of powerful webs and infrastructures of care in the neighbourhood of Poble Sec. Midwives, mothers, carers and councillors prefigure schools and cities of care, as this book turns to explore how institutions are themselves sites of struggles to care. How to stay with the trouble of embodiment, interdependence and collective learning, even within institutional contexts? How might we grapple with the relation between movements and institutions? This book's interweaving of concepts and experiences traces a powerful cycle of collective learning, yielding new articulations between the commons and the public, and channeling new feminist forces.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wien
Austria
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Width: 12 cm
Weight
265 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-903046-31-3 (9783903046313)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Associate editor
Foreword
Preface