Sep 2026· Linguistic Landscape. An international journal· 0 citations· 25 references
Abstract
This article explores the concept of the commons as a utopian practice, drawing on Graeber’s ‘living utopianism’
and Harvey’s ‘dialectical utopianism.’ It focuses on the urban commons
La Ingobernable
’, a social centre located
in a building, under threat of privatisation, occupied in Madrid between 2017 and 2019. The article examines how the project
became a symbol of the conflict between neoliberal policies and movements demanding the right to the city. Through the analysis of
the assemblage of discursive, semiotic, spatial, and organisational practices, the article shows how the collective delimited,
reterritorialised, and governed it as a self-managed space. These practices are performative because they helped bring the commons
into being, and prefigurative because they enacted in the present alternative social, political, and economic relations organised
around radical democracy, equality, care, and shared responsibility. This approach opens a fruitful path for the analysis of
performative and prefigurative politics and practices.
This paper investigates the nexus between politics, bodies, and urban spaces from an intersectional, transfeminist, and queer perspective. By questioning traditional approaches to public space, it argues that the relationship between bodies and the city is historical, contingent, and rooted in power dynamics, while als...
Federica Castelli· European journal of creative...· 0 citations
Introduction: The growing prevalence of precarity challenges Social Work to rethink its epistemological and ethical-political foundations. This research analyzes the sociopolitical culture of Baladre -Coordination of Struggles Against Precarity, Impoverishment, and Social Exclusion- a decentralized network of collectiv...
Enrique García-Escamilla· Trabajo Social Global· 0 citations
Adopting an ethnographic approach to the Linguistic Landscape (LL), the current paper sheds light on the
imagination and prefigurations (
Graeber, 2013
) of a utopic future enacted in the
protest LL of Exarchia Square in Athens city centre. More specifically, within a context of police suppression, protest LLs...
Stella Bratimou, Roula Kitsiou· Linguistic Landscape. An int...· 0 citations
This special issue grew out of the interdisciplinary conversations started at the conference “Thinking Through Motherhood: Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time”, held at Vilnius University in January 2024. Organised by the MotherNet project – an EU-funded research network – the conference focused on how mothe...
Ieva Bisigirskaitė, Maja Bodin· Socialinė teorija empirija p...· 0 citations
In the 2010s, the theme of the commons operated across different critiques of the global capitalist economy, helping to articulate alternatives for a fragmented left. This interview with a contemporary leading philosopher and anti-colonial Black feminist thinker addresses the intrinsic limitations of the theme of the c...
Tiziana Terranova, Denise Ferreira da Silva· Theory, Culture & Societ...· 0 citations
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