Barcelona: Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons and the local state. It critiques the dominant neo-institutionalist and neo-Marxist perspectives for their deterministic and siloed views, as well as their insufficient attention to the municipal scale.

Iolanda Bianchi (PhD in Political Science and PhD in Urban Planning) is an urban and political sociologist. She works in the field of urban governance, policy and collective action. Her research focuses on the interplay between public and collective action at the urban scale and examines how this interplay can generate governance, policy and social change to achieve more just, equitable and democratic cities. To advance knowledge in this debate, she works at the crossroads of commons and new municipalism theory. She currently holds a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellowship at the University of Barcelona. Previously, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Antwerp and a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.