#municipalism — Public Fediverse posts

#Municipalism Urban political economy

https://www.academia.edu/86194330/Urban_political_economy?email_work_card=title

Social infrastructure in diverse and unequal cities: Examining Civic Management facilities in Barcelona #Municipalism

https://www.academia.edu/165242032/Social_infrastructure_in_diverse_and_unequal_cities_Examining_Civic_Management_facilities_in_Barcelona

Behavioural nudges in circular economy transitions: evidence and gaps from urban consumption systems - Academia.edu #Municipalism

https://www.academia.edu/2997-6006/2/4/10.20935/AcadEnvSci7946

Benanav vs Morozov on the Political Economy of AI. Now, this will definitely be quite a read...!

"Choosing among available paths may widen or contract the field of possibilities. Some futures are rendered easier to realize; others are effectively foreclosed; and people’s understandings of what matters shift as they move forward in time—much as in Morozov’s own account of technological worldmaking. The difference is that, in my framework, this process is understood from the outset as political because it unfolds under conditions of scarcity that force collective choice among rival futures.

What is puzzling about Morozov’s critique is that this political core disappears from view. A framework designed to organize conflict over investment—to make trade-offs visible, contestable, and binding when not everything can be pursued at once—is recast as a system of administrative closure that would prematurely discipline experimentation. His analysis is not simply a misunderstanding of my proposed framework but a reversal of its intent: It reads an account meant to politicize worldmaking as an attempt to suppress it."

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real-political-economy-of-technology/

#AI #GenerativeAI #PoliticalEconomy #Democratization #PublicPolicy #Municipalism #GreenTransition #Communitarianism

Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City #municipalism

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-municipal-governance-mass-democracy/

Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies #municipalism

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/mamdani-popular-assemblies-democratic-socialism/

Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities #municipalism

https://www.academia.edu/112041367/Co_Cities_Innovative_Transitions_toward_Just_and_Self_Sustaining_Communities

Great thread, thank you @scarlet ! :black_sparkling_heart:

Plus: even anarchists can participate in local governance. Sounds weird to anybody? I can recommend Murray Bookchin, hehe :bookchin:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-the-new-municipal-agenda

#Municipalism #SocialEcology #Bookchin

Great thread, thank you @scarlet ! :black_sparkling_heart:

Plus: even anarchists can participate in local governance. Sounds weird to anybody? I can recommend Murray Bookchin, hehe :bookchin:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-the-new-municipal-agenda

#Municipalism #SocialEcology #Bookchin

Great thread, thank you @scarlet ! :black_sparkling_heart:

Plus: even anarchists can participate in local governance. Sounds weird to anybody? I can recommend Murray Bookchin, hehe :bookchin:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-the-new-municipal-agenda

#Municipalism #SocialEcology #Bookchin

Great thread, thank you @scarlet ! :black_sparkling_heart:

Plus: even anarchists can participate in local governance. Sounds weird to anybody? I can recommend Murray Bookchin, hehe :bookchin:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-the-new-municipal-agenda

#Municipalism #SocialEcology #Bookchin

Great thread, thank you @scarlet ! :black_sparkling_heart:

Plus: even anarchists can participate in local governance. Sounds weird to anybody? I can recommend Murray Bookchin, hehe :bookchin:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-the-new-municipal-agenda

#Municipalism #SocialEcology #Bookchin

#municipalism

https://jaco bin.com/2025/12/spain-mamdani-colau-carmena-municipal/

Mexico City’s UTOPIAs – Socialist Forum #municipalism

https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-winter-2025/mexico-citys-utopias/

What I am reading this week

https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-socialism-in-wisconsin-and

#reading #municipalism #municipal

#municipalism

https://convergencemag.com/articles/assemblies-palmquist/

At a town meeting, the mayor said, “We’re here to give the people a voice.”

Bookchin leaned forward and said, “Then why do you keep holding the microphone?”

#jokes #anarchism #socialecology #municipalism #humor #funny

A politician said, “We need to think globally and act locally.”

The social ecologist replied, “Great—then start by resigning and letting the neighborhood decide what to do with your office.”

#jokes #anarchism #socialecology #municipalism #humor #funny

Bookchin walks into city hall. They ask, “Sir, are you here to run for office?”

He says, “No, I’m here to dissolve it—preferably by consensus.”

#jokes #anarchism #socialecology #municipalism

And when #Mamdani wins, we need to implement Murray Bookchin's radical #municipalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
More here
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/debbie-bookchin-radical-municipalism #bookchin #anarchism #anarchist #vermont #brooklyn #newyork #Climate

And when #Mamdani wins, we need to implement Murray Bookchin's radical #municipalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
More here
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/debbie-bookchin-radical-municipalism #bookchin #anarchism #anarchist #vermont #brooklyn #newyork #Climate

And when #Mamdani wins, we need to implement Murray Bookchin's radical #municipalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
More here
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/debbie-bookchin-radical-municipalism #bookchin #anarchism #anarchist #vermont #brooklyn #newyork #Climate

And when #Mamdani wins, we need to implement Murray Bookchin's radical #municipalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
More here
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/debbie-bookchin-radical-municipalism #bookchin #anarchism #anarchist #vermont #brooklyn #newyork #Climate

And when #Mamdani wins, we need to implement Murray Bookchin's radical #municipalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
More here
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/debbie-bookchin-radical-municipalism #bookchin #anarchism #anarchist #vermont #brooklyn #newyork #Climate

"WTF Is Social Ecology?" a new essay by the Usufruct Collective (@usufructcollective):

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/wtf-is-social-ecology/

👇 Traduction en français ci-dessous 👇

#anarchism #communalism #municipalism #socialecology #ecology
#directdemocracy #mutualaid #directaction #commons #commoning

New Essay entitled "WTF Is Social Ecology?"

"The ecological crisis is not caused by an excess of human freedom; itis instead caused by the destruction of social freedom that happens through domination and exploitation towards goals of profit and powerover others"

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/wtf-is-social-ecology/

#anarchism #communalism #municipalism #socialecology #ecology #directdemocracy #mutualaid #directaction #commons #commoning

From NSP 13 with @KevinCarson1 :anarchistflagblack:
🔗 https://youtu.be/E2FmVYG5mXQ

@Nalevo @C4SS #anarchism #municipalism #commons #countereconomics #mutualism #postcapitalism

Here's my first blog post in response to the 2024 election in the U.S.

I've supported municipalism for years. Now that fascism is on the rise in the U.S. and beyond, municipalism is more important than ever.

Let's meet in our local communities to support mutual aid efforts & build power together.

https://treesong.org/blog/resist-fascism-by-embracing-municipalism/

#Municipalism

"Radical municipalism is a political and social philosophy that advocates for transformative change at the local level, with a focus on participatory and grassroots democracy.”

"Building Power in Place: A Municipalist Organizing Toolkit synthesizes learnings, takeaways, exercises, and case studies for organizers…”

https://municipalism.org/project/building-power-in-place-a-municipalist-organizing-toolkit/

#municipalism #local #grassroots #organizing

Fearless Cities is soon🔥🔥

Sheffield 2-3 November

We're organising sessions delving into #LocalGov #Coop #DebtAudit #Accountability #LocalDemocracy, #publiccommonspartnership #Municipalism #SSE #AI #FoI + much more

Tickets free, donations welcome
https://www.fearlesscitiessy.org/

Check out the program here
https://www.fearlesscitiessy.org/_files/ugd/853732_e382fb65c3af4ab0be79f7053795f93c.pdf

As the grid loses power in heatwaves, and communities & landscapes face mounting extraction for battery supply chains, this video shows how we can make environmentally just transitions to solar at scale — cooking, heating, refrigerating food, and living our daily lives.

This is especially important in the context of mining, and furthers the vision of the newly announced Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition.

We're looking to support this vision in urban and residential areas through new housing projects, resilience hubs, and retrofits/conversions to existing buildings. If you're interested, we're very up to collaborate and connect with new partners on that!

Finally, please watch and share! We're hoping for a lot of people to see this, and watching till the end helps algorithms recommend it to more people. Hoping to bring a lot more of the conversation to this direction.

https://pss.pm/solar

#JustTransition #GreenNewDeal #Solar #Resilience #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #Community #Lithium #Mining #Extraction #Indigenous #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #EJ #Postgrowth #Transitions #Solidarity #RareEarthMetals #Batteries #Storage #Sustainability #Sustainable #Grid #Electricity #Heat #Degrowth #Autonomy #Municipalism #LowTech #Hardware #Engineering #Invention #Inventor

Friends and followers! We are very excited to be organising a #municipalism summit called Fearless Cities in Sheffield in November.

Registrations are now open!
https://www.fearlesscitiessy.org/

Come and share ideas about how we can build a better local democracy, reclaim commons and rethink care.

@Laura This festival looks great! Wish it were local to me.

You may find use in this municipalism toolkit, which is available now and has a big public launch event coming up next month: https://municipalism.org/building-power-in-place/ #commons #solidarity #economics #municipalism #local #solarpunk #degrowth

@louisrcouture ⬆️ #Municipalism

#Municipalism

https://www.shareable.net/the-regeneration-handbook-system-changing-strategies/

Hello followers! We are very happy to say we are part of organising the first ever UK 'Fearless Cities' summit on #municipalism.

Come and rethink democracy, learn about international democratic solutions, reclaiming commons, feministisising politics in Sheffield 1-3 November. ✊

Read more & see this open call for contributions on our website: https://researchforaction.uk/open-call-contributions-wanted-for-the-uks-first-fearless-cities-summit

I'm kind of annoyingly becoming a fan of Kōhei Saitō... Fan is a weird word to use for "public intellectuals," and even weirder for specific theorists l, but I'm not sure what else to call it at this point. Would love to hear more about that first question though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7NodCYbDPI

#Degrowth #DegrowthCommunism #Revoloution #Coops #Books #Theory #Marx #Marxism #Socialism #Democracy #Municipalism #Anarchism #SolarPunk #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environmentalism

The necessary socialist International

https://bu.noblogs.org/the-necessary-socialist-international/

People join social movements and are introduced to them through many ways: protests and direct actions of various kinds, mutual aid projects, giant movement waves, invitation and awareness about issues through neighbors, coworkers, friends, kinship, and strangers, experiencing and/or seeing suffering and illbeing locally and around the world, having a vision of a good or better society, through some specific issue they are passionate about, being influenced by specific ideas, thinkers, research projects, current and historical political tendencies, etc. Usually people join social movements through some mix and match of the above (as well as other reasons and entry points). There is no one size fits all approach to how people get involved in social movements. Common conditions, and/or desires and/or principles can develop into organizations and shared practices. Most everyone has at least a particular issue they care about and/or at least a value/notion of what is good for people (such as freedom, equality, justice, wanting wellbeing, happiness, and pleasure to flourish, wanting needs of people to be met, developing a society where virtuous of people flourish, having a society with good rights/duties etc) that if wisely thought about would be better actuated through a cluster of liberatory processes, practices, and goals that are in harmony with a libertarian socialism/communism/communalism. The above can be a bridge towards root problems, root solutions, and grassroots social movement organizations.

It is important to note that there are many people who will join community assemblies and other social movement organizations only if such organizations can sufficiently demonstrate that they are effective at meeting people’s needs. Quite reasonably, a lot of people will want to see that organizational forms and meetings are connected to practices and content that are helping people out before they deem such forms and meetings as worth joining and participating in. It is often multiple reasons and multiple factors and multiple entry points that lead people to being more continuously involved in social movement organizations. As people join social movements, people will generally realize that being more effective, getting stuff done, and fully participating includes joining or starting organizations, attending meetings, making collective decisions, and sharing in the implementation of decisions. Community assemblies are one such organization people can form or join but they are not merely one form among others (for multiple reasons such as but far from limited to 1. their prefiguration being needed for community self management which is needed for the self-management of each and all AND because 2. community assemblies can do large arrays of oppositional and reconstructive politics). People continue to be in social movement organizations for many reasons such as: when social movement organizations are effectively and continuously achieving goals and meeting needs, where there is shared deliberation, decision making, and implementation between people, where there are enriching formal and informal relations between participants, and when the organization is self-reproducing and sustainable to be a part of overtime.

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/a-communalist-assembly-starter-kit

#anarchism
#anarchy
#socialism
#communism
#communalism
#libertariansocialism
#libertariancommunism
#municipalism
#commons
#mutualaid
#directaction
#democracy
#directdemocracy
#utopia
#praxis
#strategy
#commons
#socialmovements
#organization
#organizing

Communalist Starter Kit!!! New Revisions!!! Enjoy

Developing the commons:

Communalist projects aim to prefigure and develop the commons overtime. The commons are economic relations rooted in meeting needs and desires of people + are self-managed by those who need and use economy in community assemblies, embedded councils, and various working groups. The prefiguration of generalized mutual aid and the commons can look like anything from general and specific mutual aid groups (providing direct goods and services for free to participants and others), community free stores, tool libraries, resource libraries, to communal housing, fields, factories, workshops, recreational facilities, and infrastructure. Prefiguring the commons can help forge mutual interest between people where the wellbeing and thriving of each happens through contributing to the wellbeing and thriving of all. The commons can be developed out of what people pool together and they can also be seized through expropriating and communalizing hierarchically managed property and defending then defending such commons from hierarchical forces. For the commons to fully bloom, hierarchical property must be expropriated by popular organizations and social movements. The overall development of mutual aid and the commons can help 1. Meet needs of participants in community assemblies and other social movement groups 2. Help share the social reproduction of community assemblies and social movement groups 3. Fuel and assist direct action projects of such assemblies and groups 4. Help those who are most dispossessed 5. Help multiply and prefigure the contents of communal self-management and distribution according to needs in the process of social movement development.

In a good society:

In a good society, politics and economics would be integrated into co-federated, non-hierarchical, and directly democratic communes that have embedded self managed councils and rotating delegates for implementation of communal decisions. People in assemblies would dialogue, make direct collective decisions, and make agreements to share labor/work. The embedded councils of community assemblies would self-manage implementation of decisions within the bounds of policies, protocols, and mandates made by community assemblies. Re/Production would be to meet the needs and desires of people. And accordingly, distribution would be according to needs, desires and use where all would have access to a cornucopia that is reproduced and developed by shared participatory labor, work, and action assisted by ecological and liberatory technology.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/communalist-assembly-starter-kit/

#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #municipalism #commons #mutualaid #directaction #democracy #directdemocracy #utopia #praxis #strategy #solarpunk

A brief introduction:
Always in between countries, continents, spaces, writing forms and disciplines: between the US, Spain and Latin America; between academia and political participation; between academic articles, essays and journalism; between teaching and learning.

I teach as lecturer in the Modern Languages department at Fordham University, NYC. I'm part of the Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social #IECCS I write frequently about #USPolitics for Spanish outlets like @ElSaltoDiario and @ctxt and about #Spain for English speaking media.

I'm currently finishing a book manuscript about the crises, tensions and transformations of Spanish Democracy's political culture within recent years, from a #culturalstudies perspective.

Some topics, fields and problems that are important to me include: #politics #philosophy #mediastudies #populism #municipalism #commons #antifascism #antiracism #ideology #hegemony #popularculture

Our essay Communalism and Especifismo is now on our substack!

"The two praxes combine through social insertion in relation to community assemblies: both through starting communal assemblies and helping to develop already existing community associations into ones that use a cluster of liberatory practices. Additionally such communalist social insertion means developing community assemblies within or connected to social movements to help achieve the goals of social movements when that makes sense in specific contexts."

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/communalism-and-especifismo

#anarchism #socialism #communism #communalism #municipalism #assemblies #commons #especifismo #libertarianism #platformism #organization

The communal revolutions and movements we do see (both pre-1940s and post 1940s) that are ethical and effective utilize features that approximately correspond to Bookchin’s non-electoral politics rather than his niche and eclectic approach to local elections.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/a-friendly-critique-of-bookchins-politics/

#anarchism #anarchy #communism #socialism #assemblies #bookchin #anarchocommunism #libertariansocialism #commons #revolution #mutualaid #directaction #democracy #communalism #municipalism

An introduction and collection of #s

I work on how the #urban can be a source of #political #transformation.

My methods/tools are #psychogeography #participatory #performance #PervasiveGames #Process #Design

I use concepts from #henrilefebvre #hannaharendt #walterbenjamin #chantalmouffe #davidgraeber #bellhooks #paulofreire

Research into #municipalism #ArabSpring #OccupyMovement #NonRepresentationalTheory #SituatedLearning #affect #intersectionality #echolocation #SoundArt

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An introduction and collection of #s

I work on how the #urban can be a source of #political #transformation

My methods/tools are #ActionResearch #psychogeography #PervasiveGames #mapping #UrbanDesign

I use concepts from #SituationistInternational #henrilefebvre #hannaharendt #walterbenjamin #chantalmouffe #davidgraeber #bellhooks #paulofreire

Research into #municipalism #ArabSpring #OccupyMovement #SituatedLearning #affect #intersectionality #echolocation #SoundArt

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An introduction and collection of #s

I work on how the #urban can be a source of #political #transformation.

My methods/tools are #psychogeography #participatory #performance #PervasiveGames #Process #Design

I use concepts from #henrilefebvre #hannaharendt #walterbenjamin #chantalmouffe #davidgraeber #bellhooks #paulofreire

Research into #municipalism #ArabSpring #OccupyMovement #NonRepresentationalTheory #SituatedLearning #affect #intersectionality #echolocation #SoundArt

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An introduction and collection of #s

I work on how the #urban can be a source of #political #transformation

My methods/tools are #ActionResearch #psychogeography #PervasiveGames #mapping #UrbanDesign

I use concepts from #SituationistInternational #henrilefebvre #hannaharendt #walterbenjamin #chantalmouffe #davidgraeber #bellhooks #paulofreire

Research into #municipalism #ArabSpring #OccupyMovement #SituatedLearning #affect #intersectionality #echolocation #SoundArt

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An introduction and collection of #s

I work on how the #urban can be a source of #political #transformation.

My methods/tools are #psychogeography #participatory #performance #PervasiveGames #Process #Design

I use concepts from #henrilefebvre #hannaharendt #walterbenjamin #chantalmouffe #davidgraeber #bellhooks #paulofreire

Research into #municipalism #ArabSpring #OccupyMovement #NonRepresentationalTheory #SituatedLearning #affect #intersectionality #echolocation #SoundArt

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#introduction
I live in #Ireland and work in the HE sector. My interests include:
#socialecology
#municipalism
#cooperatives
#solidarityeconomy
#politicalecology
#syndicalism
#zapatismo
#climatejustice
#environmentaljustice
#agroecology
#diy
#ceol
#beoir
#sciencefiction
#cycling
#foss
#Irishtwitter