Call for reports – municipalism and the common
Minim is a municipalist observatory that aims to give voice to the municipalist movement in different parts of the world. In Spring 2020, we released a successful call for a series of funded reports on municipalism in the Global South. We are today announcing a...
Municipalism and COVID19
These are transition times for everyone, also for the municipalist movement. As a consequence, we’re trying to support debates and reflections about what the current crisis means for the municipalist strategy and also for municipalist organisations. We want to support the municipalist network in this...
Collaborative academic project: Municipalist Strategy in Crisis?
We will be collaborating in the production of a special issue on municipalism for the academic journal Urban Studies. The issue is coordinated by Matthew Thompson, Bertie Russell and Laura Roth. Minim will look to organise an online webinar with the authors of all the...
Transformative Cities Award
Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of building solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crises. The initiative draws on the emerging wave of transformative...
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...