Minim https://minim-municipalism.org/ Municipalism Observatory Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:53:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://minim-municipalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Minim https://minim-municipalism.org/ 32 32 From ancient times to today, cities are spaces of co-creation https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/from-ancient-times-to-today-cities-are-spaces-of-co-creation Mon, 14 Mar 2022 06:00:48 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5286 Many modern cities are focal points for escalating oppression. Since European colonisation, an idea that humans march one-way from simple egalitarian bands towards contemporary complexity has dominated. Cities are a rite of passage on this supposed metamorphosis. The story goes: civilisation is a package, with...

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]]> Rethinking land and relation in Berlin’s struggle for housing justice https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/rethinking-land-and-relation-in-berlins-struggle-for-housing-justice Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:34:17 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5280 At the end of May 2021, I found myself behind a table in Tempelhof Field, Berlin’s largest public park, helping children print dandelions alongside the slogan Wir Bleiben Alle (We’re all staying) in multiple languages onto bright yellow paper. In the windswept park, papers blew...

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]]> How gentrification works in Istanbul, Turkey, ways to resist it and where we are falling short https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/how-gentrification-works-in-istanbul-turkey-ways-to-resist-it-and-where-we-are-falling-short Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:10:43 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5270 Istanbul is the largest city (around 16,000,000 people) in Turkey and it is the economic and cultural centre of the country. Gentrification in Istanbul started as a classical gentrification process (that is, through the private housing market or market-led). After the 1950s, the population in...

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]]> A Green Wave in Quebec Municipal Elections https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/a-green-wave-in-quebec-municipal-elections Thu, 13 Jan 2022 04:00:33 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5261 Municipal politics in Quebec is not generally considered a hub of left-wing and municipal politics on the international stage. Nevertheless, the municipal elections of November 7, 2021 brought a wind of change in several major cities in Canada’s important French-speaking province.   Quebec: between mobilization...

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]]> Fearless communes: An interview with two Chilean mayors https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/fearless-communes-an-interview-with-two-chilean-mayors Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:57:20 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5232 President-elect Gabriel Boric is a testament to Chile’s changing tides. No longer afraid, a new generation—with help from the old—took to the streets on October 19th, 2019 to win back the rights that the Pinochet dictatorship had stripped away. We interviewed Érika Martínez of San...

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]]> How a Spanish network against illegitimate debt brought the struggle for municipal democracy to the state’s doorsteps https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/how-a-spanish-network-against-illegitimate-debt-brought-the-struggle-for-municipal-democracy-to-the-states-doorsteps Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:46:24 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5226 Spain is one of the countries most affected by the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis. To reduce its public debt, the state government implemented budget restraint policies and, in 2012, voted to restrict the budget of public administrations, including local authorities. This “Budgetary Stability and Financial...

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]]> Where are the municipalists in the US and Canada? https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/where-are-the-municipalists-in-the-us-and-canada Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:04:53 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5205 In recent years, the US and Canada have seen a surge of mobilization and interest in left-wing politics and municipalists observing from abroad—especially Europe—have hoped to see the emergence of radical civic platforms like those in the cities of Barcelona, Zagreb, or Bologna. Yet such...

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]]> The lay of the land: Radical municipalism in the US and Canada https://minim-municipalism.org/reports/the-lay-of-the-land-radical-municipalism-in-the-us-and-canada Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:00:28 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5195 During the last five years, we have seen major social and political upheavals across the United States and Canada. Yet beneath the surface of tumultuous events, such as the George Floyd uprisings, Donald Trump’s presidency, or the COVID19 pandemic, a new tendency of grassroots organizing...

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]]> The making of a movement: Greater Manchester against the housing crisis https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/the-making-of-a-movement-greater-manchester-against-the-housing-crisis Mon, 08 Nov 2021 03:59:46 +0000 https://minim-municipalism.org/?p=5191 In the thirteen years since the financial crisis, one of the more dynamic political forces in Britain has been its right-to-housing movement. While initially mobilising specific campaigns against austerity and welfare cuts, the movement has more recently begun to develop longer-term organisational forms and advance...

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