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Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure, and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the world's urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary, empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities around the world. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in urban and regional studies.

Alternative urban spaces of work, exchange, and consumption -- The production of rurbal space: alternative food systems in Denmark / Pia Heike Johansen & Hannibal Hoff -- Framing alternative urban spaces in unstable contexts: a view from Beirut / Christine Mady -- New workspaces in Milan and Berlin: coworking spaces between defensive strategies and transformative potential / Carolina Pacchi -- Chpater 5 deus ex-machina : makerspaces in Milan and their transformative potential / Letizia Chiappini & Petter Tornberg -- Alternative urban spaces of dwelling -- Producing refugee spaces: disruptive spatial practice and the everyday in Cairo / Samir Shalabi & Lee Pugalis -- The struggle for the right to housing in Spain / Vitor Peiteado Fernandez -- The production of slums : old fadama as an alternative space of urban dwelling / Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu, Jens Kaae Fisker & Lee Pugalis -- In-between the planned grid: kothi sexuality, domesticity, and urban interstitiality in Chandigarh, India / Preetika Sharma -- Alternative urban spaces of public life -- Reclaiming democratic (public) spaces through music : the case of viaduto Santa Tereza in Belo horizonte, Brazil / Fausto Di Quarto -- Alternative spaces emerging from the gezi protests : from resistance to alternatives / Basak Tanulku & Jens Kaae Fisker -- Citizen-led micro-regeneration : case studies of civic crowdfunding in London and Milan / Silvia Gullino, Heidi Seetzen, Christina Cerulli & Carolina Pacchi -- Conclusion -- An international dialogue on the production of alternative urban spaces / Jens Kaae Fisker & Letizia Chiappini -- Index

This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages worldwide are faced with in the midst of what has been widely dubbed as 'an urban age'. Starting from the premise that current urban development patterns are unsustainable in every sense of the word, the book explores how alternative patterns can be pursued by the wide variety of actors - from governments and international institutions to slum-dwellers and social movements - involved in the on-going production of our shared urban condition. The challenges addressed include exclusion and segregation; persisting poverty and increasing inequality; urban sprawl and changing land use patterns; and the spatial frames of urban policy. As such the book appeals to urban scholars, policy makers, activists, and others concerned with shaping the future of our cities and of urban life in general. Additionally, it is of interest to students in urban planning, architecture and design, human geography, urban sociology, and related fields.

Research on governance, network governance and metagovernance has shown how the practice of governing involves a diversity of actors in and beyond the state. Much attention has been paid to the role of powerful state and non-state actors while less consideration has been directed at less visible and marginalised actors who are recognised as participants but whose agency is rarely subjected to in-depth research. In this article, we address this lack by studying the micropolitical practices of place-based self-governing networks in the Danish countryside and their role in governing rural places. Our theoretical point of departure is Bob Jessop's notion of multispatial metagovernance which we seek to enhance by considering marginalised actors around the edges of the state apparatus. Our findings suggest that these marginalised and overlooked actors are not just subjected to governance but actively partake in shaping the governance landscape by enveloping rural places for self-governance in four distinct ways: (1) subverting municipal micro-technologies of power; (2) filling the void created by scalar fixes; (3) keeping local organising efforts fluid and opaque to outsiders and (4) orchestrating strategically selective cooperation with extra-local actors. Without downplaying asymmetries of power and their influence on governance outcomes, we conclude that metagovernance and collibration are not just prerogatives of the powerful. Generating adequate understandings of such practices is therefore only possible if we consider the full breadth of involved actors without taking for granted that outcomes are always decided in advance by the powerful. The study that the article reports on shows one of the ways in which this task may be approached empirically.

Research on governance, network governance and metagovernance has shown how the practice of governing involves a diversity of actors in and beyond the state. Much attention has been paid to the role of powerful state and non-state actors while less consideration has been directed at less visible and marginalised actors who are recognised as participants but whose agency is rarely subjected to in-depth research. In this article, we address this lack by studying the micropolitical practices of place-based self-governing networks in the Danish countryside and their role in governing rural places. Our theoretical point of departure is Bob Jessop's notion of multispatial metagovernance which we seek to enhance by considering marginalised actors around the edges of the state apparatus. Our findings suggest that these marginalised and overlooked actors are not just subjected to governance but actively partake in shaping the governance landscape by enveloping rural places for self-governance in four distinct ways: (1) subverting municipal micro-technologies of power; (2) filling the void created by scalar fixes; (3) keeping local organising efforts fluid and opaque to outsiders and (4) orchestrating strategically selective cooperation with extra-local actors. Without downplaying asymmetries of power and their influence on governance outcomes, we conclude that metagovernance and collibration are not just prerogatives of the powerful. Generating adequate understandings of such practices is therefore only possible if we consider the full breadth of involved actors without taking for granted that outcomes are always decided in advance by the powerful. The study that the article reports on shows one of the ways in which this task may be approached empirically. ; publishedVersion

AbstractIn this paper, we investigate how rurality is performed in online community groups, attending in particular to outdoor recreation and engagement with local nature. The starting point for our performative approach is that when places are digitally mediated, the technological intermediary is never innocent or neutral. Methodologically, we conducted an online ethnography in 20 rural community groups on Facebook during one full year, collecting every post and associated comment threads relating to outdoor recreation and other forms of engagement with local nature. An iterative, heuristic coding process was employed to engage with and further develop existing performative approaches to the sociological study of rural places. Distinguishing throughout between staged and quotidian performances, our findings detail how the routines, pleasures, and tasks of everyday rural life are performed online. Important distinctions that emerge from this include routines that are given vis‐à‐vis those that are in‐the‐making; pleasures based on impression and expression respectively; and tasks relating to carework and sharework. The paper contributes valuable new insights regarding the performance of rurality in the age of the everyday Internet.

Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --Theoretical (Re)Positionings --The World and the Real: --Encountering Post-Foundationalism in J.K. Gibson-Graham's Space of Pregnant Negativity --On Shaky Ground: --Institution and Dislocation: --Badiou as a Post-Foundationalist --Spacing Rancière's Politics --[Un]Grounding Geographies --[Un]Grounding Agonistic Public Space: --Always Geographize! --The Most Sublime Geographer: --Modelling the Market as a Socio-Spatial Structure: --Post-Foundationalism in the City --(Non)Building Alliances: --Politicizing Air: --Materialization of Antidiscipline: --How Does The [Un]Grounded Interface Generate Possibilities for Spatial Alternatives? --A Post-Foundational Conception of Politics and Space: --Authors