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Ismael Blanco;Yunailis Salazar;Iolanda Bianchi

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue1,P.18-38

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英文

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作者单位

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

摘要

Local elections in May 2015 represented a major shift in the political history of Barcelona (Spain). The Barcelona en Comú candidacy, born in January 2015 under the impetus of a set of progressive social and political organizations, became the first municipal political force in the city. This article analyzes the cycle of creation, electoral victory, and government action of Barcelona en Comú during the current legislature (2015–2019). In so doing, the article focuses its attention on the emancipatory urban political practices emerged in recent years in response to the fractures and contradictions generated by neoliberal austerity. In dialogue with the literature on social movements and urban neoliberalism, the article focuses its attention on the challenges and opportunities that the local institutionalization of these forms of counterpolitics entails.Additional informationAuthor informationIsmael BlancoIsmael Blanco is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Law and Research Fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).Yunailis SalazarYunailis Salazar is a PhD Student in politics, policies and international relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is a Research Fellow at the IGOP.Iolanda BianchiIolanda Bianchi is a PhD Student in politics, policies and international relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in Regional Planning and Public Policy at the University IUAV of Venice. She is a Research Fellow at the IGOP.FundingThis article is the product of the research project “Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative Study” (Ref. No. ES/L012898/1), led by Jonathan Davies and funded the by UK Economic and Social Research Council (see http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ESRCAusterity). It has also benefited from the fieldwork of the study “PROTO_LOCAL. From Protest to Proposition. Municipalities of Change, Urban Policies and Social Movements” (Ref. No. CSO2015-68314-P), led by Fabiola Mota Consejero and Michael Janoschka and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable and enriching comments. They also thank Jonathan Davies, Joan Subirats, and Ricard Gomà for their feedback on previous drafts of the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.