Mobilization, organization and social movements
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A journey through the history of municipalism
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In this session we'll take an exciting tour through the history of municipalism alongside people who have studied it or lived through it first hand. We'll explore the examples of Spanish municipalism in the early 19th century, Italy’s Take Over the City movement of the 1970s, progressive cities in the US under Reagan and the Greater London Council that stood up to Thatcher in the 80s, and we'll identify the lessons that they hold for contemporary movements and governments.
Speakers:
Pamela Radcliff, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Su investigación actual explora la larga tradición de los movimientos políticos municipalistas en la historia española contemporánea.
Pierre Clavel, Professor Emeritus at the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. Author of “Activists in City Hall”
Owen Hatherley, Culture Editor of Tribune. His latest book, Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London, is now out from Repeater Books
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Resources:
London:
GLC Story: http://glcstory.co.uk/
Red Metropolis, Owen Hatherley
A Taste of Power, Maureen Mackintosh and Hilary Wainwright
USA:
Activists in City Hall, Pierre Clavel
“Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning” collection at Cornell Library
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/40488
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/40484
Italy:
Red Bologna, Charlie Clemoes and Jake Soule
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/italian-communist-party-red-bologna-march-1977/
Take over the city: community struggle in Italy - Lotta Continua
https://libcom.org/library/take-over-city-italy-1972-lotta-continua
Spain:
The Village Against the World, Dan Hancox
Barcelona Rebelde, Guillem Martinez
The Spanish Anarchists, Murray Bookchin
Others:
Forms of Freedom (1985 speech) Murray Bookchin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPwr-cVz_M
Communal Luxury, Kristin Ross
Pamela Radcliff has sent me this text to add to the list!
Las Libertades Municipales: la “tradición municipalista” en los discursos de la España democrática contemporánea. It is published in Ayer 123/2021 (3) pp 165-199
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