Report #1: In the city, at the border. Movement and grassroots initiatives during the pandemic.
This report offers an overview of the evolution of the relationship and conflicts between institutional and non-institutional actors during the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to do so by examining a range of writing on how grounded, grassroots responses emerged at a local level, opposing the...
Murray Bookchin, Municipalism, Popular Democracy and Left Politics
5 July 2020
In this podcast we discuss the work of Murray Bookchin, relating it to the experiences and debates around municipalism and wider left political practices and theory. With our guests (Blair, Hilary and Kate) we focus the discussion on the recent edited collection of Bookchin's work:...
Monthly seminar about municipalism with Urban Democracy Lab (NYU)
This working group would like to serve as a space for gathering activists, scholars and people interested in municipalism to explore together some of the political concepts, practico-theoretical debates and current challenges of the municipalist movement. We hope this group can help nurturing ongoing individual...
Reports about municipalism in the Global South
In February 2020 we opened a call for applications to write four reports about municipalism in the Global South. As a consequence, we’re producing four short introductory pieces of work that connect the authors, topics and practices from the Global South with those in the Global...
The New Municipalism (part 2)
5 April 2020
In the second part of the New Municipalism series, Ross talks to Barcelona-based scholar-activist Laura Roth. She talks about the Spanish experience, particularly in relation to Barcelona en Comú, the movement party, which has been in minority government since 2014. Laura talked about a range...
The New Municipalism (part 1)
30 January 2020
What is "New Municipalism"? In this first of a new series Ross seeks clarification from scholar-activists Bertie Russell and Matt Thompson who give us a conceptual and historical take on this new urban movement, offering reflections on UK examples like Preston. The interview was recorded...