Citizenship practices and democratic governance: ‘Barcelona en Comú’ as an urban citizenship confluence promoting a new policy agenda

Uncovering Social Sustainability in Housing Systems through the Lens of Institutional Capital: A Study of Two Housing Alliances in Vienna, Austria

“…The reflections stimulated by this work have deepened the methodological insights necessary to 'case-proof' the methodology of our research. More specifically, a preliminary understanding of the conditions within which housing alliances emerge, perform new political positions and opt for bottom-linked governance practices and the realization of social sustainability are sought in the work of social innovation scholars writing on bottom-linked governance [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] and institutional capital [11,21,[23][24][25]. This synthesis provides the basis of the analytical framework for case study work on the following two civil society housing alliances in Vienna (Austria): 'BAWO' (a national alliance of homelessness NGOs) and the 'Initiative Collaborative Building & Living' (an umbrella body for collaborative housing forms in Austria).…”

“…Bottom-linked governance has emerged as a key concept in social innovation scholarship, particularly because of its 'positive' analytical, action-oriented, socio-political transformation potentialities [13][14][15][17][18][19]22]. It is understood as a novel and dynamic governance modality between top-down receptive institutional actors (e.g., public authorities, elected officials, large housing developers, charity groups and foundations) and bottom-up social innovators (e.g., non-profit/non-governmental organizations, community initiatives, social movements) aiming for the satisfaction of human needs, the co-construction of public policy and the formation of more democratic public institutions and participatory decisionmaking mechanisms.…”

Grassroots practices of citizenship and politicization in the urban: the case of right to the city initiatives in Barcelona

“…Both groups are well connected with social movements and advocacy groups, and played an important role as facilitators for networking. Led by the spokeswoman of PAH, Ada Colau, they launched the BenC political platform in June 2014 (Eizaguirre, Pradel-Miquel, and García 2017). The aim of BenC was to win the municipal elections and expand their influence in society by reclaiming key political institutions.…”

“…In the large diversity of scholarly explanations of social movements revolving around different societal issues in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe (Beinin and Vairel 2013;Della Porta and Caiani 2007;Tarrow 2011), repercussions that politicization have on the practices of citizenship need special attention. Focusing on the citizen initiatives that emerged after the Indignados movement in Barcelona, this article explores the potential of these initiatives in creating new platforms for politics as well as contributes to the earlier debates on politicization in this journal, especially in the realm of urban citizenship (Eizaguirre, Pradel-Miquel, and García 2017).…”

Producing Alternative Urban Spaces : Social Mobilisation and New Forms of Agency in the Spanish Housing Crisis

“…These movements have progressive programs 75 that focus their political action on local politics (Blanco and Gomà, 2016;Subirats, 2016;Blanco, Gomà Carmona and Subirats, 2018). The emergence of the new institutionalisation strategy has also called the attention of few scholars interested in the transition from movement politics to institutional politics (Eizaguirre, Pradel-Miquel and García, 2017;Ordóñez, Feenstra and Franks, 2018;Blanco, Salazar and Bianchi, 2019), as well as their linkages to the emergence of Podemos (Calle Collado, 2015). Nevertheless, there is still a vacuum of exhaustive analysis of how these groups create their agency and their activism, which this thesis aims to start filling.…”