Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship: Commoning Social Reproduction in Crisis-Ridden Athens, Greece (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) - Hardcover

Sánchez, Isabel Gutiérrez

 
9780820375052: Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship: Commoning Social Reproduction in Crisis-Ridden Athens, Greece (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820375055 ISBN 13: 9780820375052
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2025

Synopsis

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship examines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash in 2008. Drawing on a long-term engagement with four grassroots initiatives, a social kitchen, a social clinic, and an accommodation center with refugees and a community center, Gutiérrez Sánchez introduces the concept of Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship (ICCs) as a theoretical tool for the examination of spaces of collective resistance where new commons are formed that enable the sustenance of everyday life. Furthermore, the book unpacks how such resistance challenges crisis governmentalities, shedding light on how self-organized groups understand the stakes of their practices and the potential for radical social change embedded in them.

Making a unique contribution to debates connecting care and the commons, this book offers a theoretical framework grounded in a compelling narrative, inspiring insights for a new social imagination and practice beyond the conventional view of chronic crisis.

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About the Author

ISABEL GUTIÉRREZ SÁNCHEZ is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in architecture and anthropology. She currently works at the Department of Anthropology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Her work has appeared in the Urban Studies Journal; Environment and Planning: Society and Space; Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies; and Urban Informality and the Built Environment: Infrastructure, Exchange and Image.

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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820375055
ISBN 13 
9780820375052
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
190

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