Commons, Citizenship and Power

Filippo Barbera is Professor of Economic Sociology at the CPS Department of the University of Turin, and Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. Emma Bell is Professor of Contemporary British Politics at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc.

“Another Europe is possible beyond right-wing populism. This book brilliantly makes the case for ‘commoning populism’ and ‘positive placeism’ – the democratic potential of local progressive populism and policies for the commons. Combining innovative theoretical insights, experiments and examples of top-down policy failures, the book decisively identifies a way forward for a democratic sustainable development.” Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po

• 1.Reclaiming place from the margins - Filippo Barbera and Emma Bell2.Reclaiming control: populism and the question of democratic disenfranchisement - Paolo Gerbaudo3.Democratic regeneration through commons-based populism - Alexandros Kioupkiolis4.Creating a ‘cooperative commonwealth’: populism in the US in the 1890s - Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet5.Citizenship beyond the nation state: reclaiming place through radical democracy - Emma Bell6.Analysing the territorial roots of discontent: between anger and silent protests - Sébastien Bourdin and André Torre7.Policies sensitive to people in places: rationale, implementations, adversaries - Fabrizio Barca8.Endogenous and imported populism vs. local citizenship in marginalised and remote places of Europe - Ayhan Kaya, Anna Krasteva and Andrea Membretti9.Restanza and the power of attachment in a Welsh slate valley - Lowri Cunnington Wynn, Julie Froud and Karel Williams10.Community wealth building as a counter to right-wing reactionary politics: place-based democratisation of the economy to tackle rising inequality - Sarah McKinley11.A requiem for ‘levelling up’? - John Tomaney, Andy Pike, Danny Mackinnon and Sanne Velthuis12.Local citizenship for an inclusive local democracy - Stella Rodrigues Lallement