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Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship examines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash in 2008. Drawing on a long-term engagement with four grassroots initiatives, a social kitchen, a social clinic, and an accommodation center with refugees and a community center, Gutiérrez Sánchez introduces the concept of Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship (ICCs) as a theoretical tool for the examination of spaces of collective resistance where new commons are formed that enable the sustenance of everyday life. Furthermore, the book unpacks how such resistance challenges crisis governmentalities, shedding light on how self-organized groups understand the stakes of their practices and the potential for radical social change embedded in them.
Making a unique contribution to debates connecting care and the commons, this book offers a theoretical framework grounded in a compelling narrative, inspiring insights for a new social imagination and practice beyond the conventional view of chronic crisis.
Making a unique contribution to debates connecting care and the commons, this book offers a theoretical framework grounded in a compelling narrative, inspiring insights for a new social imagination and practice beyond the conventional view of chronic crisis.
Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship examines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash in 2008. Drawing on a long-term engagement with four grassroots initiatives, a social kitche...
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ISABEL GUTIÉRREZ SÁNCHEZ is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in architecture and anthropology. She currently works at the Department of Anthropology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Her work has appeared in the Urban Studies Journal; Environment and Planning: Society and Space; Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies; and Urban Informality and the Built Environment: Infrastructure, Exchange and Image.
ISABEL GUTIÉRREZ SÁNCHEZ is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in architecture and anthropology. She currently works at the Department of Anthropology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Her work has appeared in the Urban Studies Journal; Environment and Planning: Society an...
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