Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons
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Resumo: | In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal community-led initiatives or/and social movements which aim to generate novel, democratic, socially, spatially and environmentally just solutions to address social needs that are otherwise ignored or marginalised. To address our research questions, we draw on the work of Cindi Katz to explore how grassroots innovations relate to practices of resilience, reworking and resistance. We identify possibilities and limitations as well as patterns of spatial practices and pathways of re-scaling and radical praxis, uncovering broadly-shared resemblances across different places. Through this analysis we aim to make a twofold contribution to political ecology and human geography scholarship on grassroots radical activism, social innovation and the spatialities of resistance. First, to reveal the connections between social-environmental struggles, emerging grassroots innovations and broader structural factors that cause, enable or limit them. Second, to explore how grassroots radical innovations stemming from place-based community struggles can relate to resistance practices that would not only successfully oppose inequality and the withering of the commons in the short-term, but would also open long-term pathways to alternative modes of social organization, and a new commons, based on social needs and social rights that are currently unaddressed. |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commonsSocial innovationgrassroots activismcommonsenvironmental justicesocial justicesocial-environmental movementsresistancereworkingresilienceIn this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal community-led initiatives or/and social movements which aim to generate novel, democratic, socially, spatially and environmentally just solutions to address social needs that are otherwise ignored or marginalised. To address our research questions, we draw on the work of Cindi Katz to explore how grassroots innovations relate to practices of resilience, reworking and resistance. We identify possibilities and limitations as well as patterns of spatial practices and pathways of re-scaling and radical praxis, uncovering broadly-shared resemblances across different places. Through this analysis we aim to make a twofold contribution to political ecology and human geography scholarship on grassroots radical activism, social innovation and the spatialities of resistance. First, to reveal the connections between social-environmental struggles, emerging grassroots innovations and broader structural factors that cause, enable or limit them. Second, to explore how grassroots radical innovations stemming from place-based community struggles can relate to resistance practices that would not only successfully oppose inequality and the withering of the commons in the short-term, but would also open long-term pathways to alternative modes of social organization, and a new commons, based on social needs and social rights that are currently unaddressed.2022info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/103350http://hdl.handle.net/10316/103350https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2292eng1073-0451Apostolopoulou, EliaBormpoudakis, DimitriosChatzipavlidis, AlexandrosCortés Vázquez, Juan JoséFlorea, IoanaGearey, MaryLevy, JulyanLoginova, JuliaOrdner, JamesPartridge, TristanPizarro, AlejandraRhoades, HannibalSymons, KateVeríssimo, CélineWahby, Nourainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-11-08T21:33:52Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/103350Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:20:12.276515Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons Apostolopoulou, Elia Social innovation grassroots activism commons environmental justice social justice social-environmental movements resistance reworking resilience |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons |
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Apostolopoulou, Elia |
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Apostolopoulou, Elia Bormpoudakis, Dimitrios Chatzipavlidis, Alexandros Cortés Vázquez, Juan José Florea, Ioana Gearey, Mary Levy, Julyan Loginova, Julia Ordner, James Partridge, Tristan Pizarro, Alejandra Rhoades, Hannibal Symons, Kate Veríssimo, Céline Wahby, Noura |
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Bormpoudakis, Dimitrios Chatzipavlidis, Alexandros Cortés Vázquez, Juan José Florea, Ioana Gearey, Mary Levy, Julyan Loginova, Julia Ordner, James Partridge, Tristan Pizarro, Alejandra Rhoades, Hannibal Symons, Kate Veríssimo, Céline Wahby, Noura |
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Apostolopoulou, Elia Bormpoudakis, Dimitrios Chatzipavlidis, Alexandros Cortés Vázquez, Juan José Florea, Ioana Gearey, Mary Levy, Julyan Loginova, Julia Ordner, James Partridge, Tristan Pizarro, Alejandra Rhoades, Hannibal Symons, Kate Veríssimo, Céline Wahby, Noura |
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Social innovation grassroots activism commons environmental justice social justice social-environmental movements resistance reworking resilience |
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Social innovation grassroots activism commons environmental justice social justice social-environmental movements resistance reworking resilience |
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In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal community-led initiatives or/and social movements which aim to generate novel, democratic, socially, spatially and environmentally just solutions to address social needs that are otherwise ignored or marginalised. To address our research questions, we draw on the work of Cindi Katz to explore how grassroots innovations relate to practices of resilience, reworking and resistance. We identify possibilities and limitations as well as patterns of spatial practices and pathways of re-scaling and radical praxis, uncovering broadly-shared resemblances across different places. Through this analysis we aim to make a twofold contribution to political ecology and human geography scholarship on grassroots radical activism, social innovation and the spatialities of resistance. First, to reveal the connections between social-environmental struggles, emerging grassroots innovations and broader structural factors that cause, enable or limit them. Second, to explore how grassroots radical innovations stemming from place-based community struggles can relate to resistance practices that would not only successfully oppose inequality and the withering of the commons in the short-term, but would also open long-term pathways to alternative modes of social organization, and a new commons, based on social needs and social rights that are currently unaddressed. |
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