Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Situating Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages

1.1 Introduction

1.2 An emerging political practice in European cities: the politics of the urban commons

1.3 Urban commons-local state interactions: a siloed and deterministic understanding

1.4 An epistemology for urban commons and local state interaction: urban commons-local state assemblages

1.5 Rhizomatic and arborescent assemblages: enhancing the politics of the urban commons

1.6 Researching urban commons-local state assemblages: Barcelona, case studies and methods

2 Beyond Neo-Marxist and Neo-Institutionalist Dichotomies: Commons-State Assemblages in the Municipal Context

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The re-emergence of the commons: the neo-institutionalist and the neo-Marxist perspectives

2.3 The commons and the state: the neo-institutionalist and the neo-Marxist perspective

2.4 Bridging two perspectives: towards a more nuanced understanding of state-commons relationships

2.5 The urban dimension of the commons: the ambivalent political possibilities of the urban context

2.6 Incorporating the local dimension of the state: the political opportunities offered by local government structures

2.7 Conclusion

3 Urban Commons-Local State Assemblage Regimes in Barcelona

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Urban commons-local state assemblage regimes: from the early twentieth century until the 2000s

3.3 Urban commons-local state assemblage regimes: the 2007-8 financial crisis, urban movements and the rise of BComu

3.4 The urban commons-local state assemblage regime under BComu: urban welfare and commons-sympathetic policies

3.5 Conclusion

4 Rhizomatic Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages: Can Batllo Sociocultural Centre and the Citizen Asset Programme

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Building rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages: neighbourhood struggles, the neoliberalisation of urban development and the financial crisis

4.3 Rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages under the conservative CiU government: the Can Batllo sociocultural centre

4.4 Rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages under the BComu government: the Can Batllo project and the Citizen Assets programme.

4.5 Conclusion

5 Arborescent Urban Commons-Local State Assemblages: The Case of the Puigcerda Informal Settlement, its Eviction and the Waste-Picking Cooperative

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Building rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblages: migration flows, the financial crisis and the rise of informal settlements

5.3 Dismantling the rhizomatic urban commons-local state assemblage in the Puigcerda settlement: the eviction and the informal settlement plan under the conservative government

5.4 Rebuilding an urban commons-local state assemblage in an arborescent form: the waste picking cooperative under the conservative and BComu government

5.5 Conclusion

6 Conclusion

6.1 Strategies for enhancing the politics of the urban commons

6.2 Exploiting the local state’s rationalities and policy interventions: developing a strategically recalibrated approach to urban politics and building networks with social movements

6.3 Navigating the tension between urban commons’ autonomy and local state support: building both self-governing and material autonomy

6.4 Occupying the local state: leveraging new municipalism to enhance the politics of the urban commons

6.5 Avenues for future research

Index