The institutionalization of the right to the city: The Spanish case

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

“…In their assemblies, the debates revealed higher levels of abstraction, linked for instance to the defence of feminism, ecologism or against commodification. Departing from specific initiatives for the two cities, these debates are often framed within an abstract perspective that refers to the right to the city or the commons as alternatives to neoliberal urbanism (Peiteado Fernández, 2018b). The discussions within Municilab, the workshops organised by MaT and the claims for creating a refuge city for asylum seekers or against gender violence show an abstraction that connects local issues to global dynamics.…”