Cities of the global South

AM Simone - Annual review of Sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and
“Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and …

Rethinking Italian autonomist Marxism: Spatial composition, urban contestation, and the material geographies of social reproduction

N Gray - Antipode, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Class composition was the most important concept to be developed within the rich milieu of
Italian autonomist Marxism, acutely addressing subject‐object dichotomies and …

Gaming the system: Tactical workarounds and the production of antagonistic subjectivities among migrant platform workers in Italy

G Iazzolino, A Varesio - Antipode, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our article explores how migrant food delivery couriers work around platform algorithmic
control to argue that gaming the system is a form of everyday resistance. Drawing on data …

Financialized gentrification and class composition in the post‐industrial city: A rent strike against a real estate investment trust in Hamilton, Ontario

BS Risager - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Through a case study of a rent strike against a real estate investment trust in a working‐class
neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, this article asks how we might understand class and …

From autonomous to autonomist geographies

N Gray, N Clare - Progress in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well
placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of 'class …

Urban popular economies: Territories of operation for lives deemed worth living

Urban Popular Economy Collective… - Public …, 2022 - read.dukeupress.edu
What is a life worth living and how is it concretely actualized by an urban majority making
often unanticipated, unformatted uses of the urban to engender livelihoods in a dynamic and …

Everyday antagonisms: organising economic practices in Mercado Bonpland, Buenos Aires

V Habermehl - Environment and Planning C: Politics and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2001, Argentina experienced a profound social political and economic crisis. In response,
a broad and diverse social and economic movement was created, involving autonomous …

Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice

J Bonshoms-Guzman - Urban Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, housing and tenant movements across
many cities have emerged to contest the unfolding cycle of housing financialisation. In …

Spaces of social recomposition: resisting meaningful work in social cooperatives in Italy

V Castellini - Antipode, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Workers' experiences in Italian social cooperatives expose the tension between the goal of
desirable change that these social economy organisations pursue and the demanding …

Multiplying labour, multiplying resistance: Class composition in Buenos Aires' clandestine textile workshops

N Clare - Antipode, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Buenos Aires' talleres clandestinos (clandestine textile workshops) are powerful sites of
accumulation and resistance; a complex and communitarian migrant economy. The …