Coworking Spaces : Alternative Topologies and Transformative Potentials / / Janet Merkel, Dimitris Pettas, and Vasilis Avdikos, editors

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages)
• Disciplina: 658.041
• Soggetto topico: Self-employed; Work environment - Social aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): MerkelJanet; PettasDimitris; AvdikosVasilis
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Coworking Spaces: Alternative Topologies and Transformative Potentials -- The Emergence of Coworking and Coworking Spaces -- Framing Key Themes: Overview of the Book -- Coworking and the Politics of Self-Organization and Community Organization in the City -- Care and Labor in Coworking Practices -- Alternative Modes of Development Through Coworking and the Policy Responses -- Emancipatory and Transformative Potentials of Coworking -- References -- Part I: Coworking and the Politics of Self-Organization and Community Organization in the City -- A Place in the World: A Mapping of Coworking as a Site/Practice of Commoning and Community in Istanbul -- Introduction -- Research Sites and Methodology -- Imagine It Like an Ecosystem!: Neoliberal Discourse on Coworking -- Coworking as Mutualism -- Coworking as Curation -- Contradictory Appeal of Sovereignty and (In)dispensability -- A Sublimated Space of the Commons: Dünyada Mekân -- Challenges of Commons-Based Coworking -- Coworking in the Public: As a Right to the City? -- Conclusion -- References -- Self-Organised Labour: Reclaiming the Commons in the Post-Socialist Space of Southeast Europe -- Introduction -- Remembering the Commons: A Brief Overview of the Workers' Self-Management in the Former Yugoslavia -- Practising the Commons After Socialism -- Rojc Community Centre -- Magacin Cultural Centre -- Termokiss -- An Affective Political Power -- Conclusion -- References -- Organisational Decline and the Failure in Alternative Organising: The Case of a Coworking Cooperative -- Introduction -- Organisational Decline in Alternative Organising -- Data and Methodology -- Research Process -- Analytical Process -- The Decline of The Community -- Element I: The Community Way -- Element II: The Work of Mundane Maintenance. ; Element III: Working Conditions and the Rise of (Dys)functional Imperatives -- Discussion: The Community's Emancipatory and Transformative Potential -- Conclusion -- References -- CWS as Terrains for the (De)territorialisation of Labour: Digital Nomads, Local Coworkers and the Pursuit for Resilient and Cooperative Spaces -- Introduction: Changing Labour Landscapes and Ongoing Challenges for CWS -- The Rise and Establishment of Remote Work -- The Role of CWS in Territorialising Digital Nomads and the Impact on the Urban Environment -- Adaptations Towards Facilitating the Needs of Digital Nomads -- The Need for a Paradigm Shift for CWS Towards the Cooperative Movement -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Care and Labour in Coworking Practices -- Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures of Care -- Introduction -- Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures -- Coworking Spaces and Care -- Practices of Situated Care in Coworking Spaces -- Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures of Care -- References -- Coworking Spaces in Aotearoa New Zealand: Embodied Geographies of Care in Pandemic Times -- Introduction -- Geographies of Care: The Transformative Potential of CWSs -- Embodied Geographies of Care -- The Contribution of This Chapter -- CWSs in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Methodology -- CWSs as Spaces of Care -- Creating More Inclusive Environments -- Hospitable Spaces -- 'Koha Economy' -- Conclusion -- References -- You Know That You've Succeeded in Your Role When Your Work Renders You Invisible: The Invisible Work of Community Management -- Introduction -- Coworking Spaces: Giving Visibility to the Precarious, 'Gig' Workers -- A Request for Visibility: Addressing the Invisible Work of Community Managers -- Tracing the Invisible (Women's) Work -- Methodology and Data Collection -- Community Management: Recruitment and Job Responsibilities. ; Relational Practices -- Emerging Forms of Organisation of Work, Long-standing Patterns of (In)visibility -- References -- Exhausting Coworking: On the Implications of Reproductive Work for Coworkers' Subjectivities -- Introduction -- Coworking in Ambivalence -- The Ambivalence Stemming from Exhaustion -- Community-led Coworking Needs Work -- 'She Actually Did a Lot. And Then, It Was Too Much [...]' : The Limits of (Exhausting) Reproductive Work in CLCS -- Discussing Exhaustion in CLCS: Implications For Neoliberal Subjectivities or a 'Coming Community'? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Alternative Modes of Development Through Coworking and Policy Responses -- The Abundant Crops of Subjectivisation and the Difficult Arts of Institutionalisation: Building Transformative Collaborative Spaces of Urban Labour in the Context of the Mares de Madrid Initiative -- Introduction: Questioning the Transformative and Institutionalisation Outcomes of Collaborative Urban Labour Spaces -- Common Questions for Different Debates: The Quest for Transformation and Institutionalisation in Social Innovation, Neo-municipalism and Collaborative Working Projects -- Mares de Madrid in Its Context: From New Social Movements to Neo-municipalist Politics -- Skilfully Planning Transformation: Governance, Frameworks and Tools of the Mares de Madrid Initiative -- Negotiating Space, Reshaping Scale: The Mar as Places for the Social Production of the Urban Economy -- Discussion: A (Too) Great Transformative Ambition and a Failed Institutionalization -- Subjectivization, Scale and the Forms of Institutionalization: Three Open Questions for Further Research on Collaborative Urban Labour Spaces and Urban Change -- References -- Public Support for New Working Spaces in Italy: The Case of Presidi di Comunità -- Introduction -- The Role of Policies Promoting Coworking Spaces in Italy. ; The Revival of Public Coworking: The Role of Presidi di Comunità -- Conclusion and Further Research -- References -- Exploring Social Innovative Collaborative Workspace Assemblages: A Comparative Study from Athens -- 'Resilient' Collaborative Workspaces and Social Innovation -- Social Innovation -- Assemblage Thinking -- Local Context -- Methodology -- Findings and Discussion -- The Case Studies: Romantso and Communitism -- Social Innovation -- Social Needs -- Changing Social Relations -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Facilitating Social Economy in Taiwan: A Case Study of a University-Community Coworking Space in an Indigenous Community of Eastern Taiwan -- Introduction -- Reframing Economy -- Methods -- A Case Study of A Bunch of Millet Bunun Independent Publishing Studio in Nakahila -- Building a University-Community Partnership by Creating a Multi-functional Coworking Space -- Reframing Publishing for Culture Preservation -- Sustaining the Millet Studio Through a Diverse Economy -- Conclusion -- References -- Spaces of Collaboration-Spaces of Possibility: How a Local Hub Creates New Possibilities in a Greek Peripheral Town -- Introduction -- Spaces of Collaboration-Spaces of Possibility -- The Case of "Messolonghi by Locals" -- Creating Possibilities by Reimagining Development, Mobilizing the Community and Converting Identities -- Reimagining Development -- Mobilizing the Community -- Converting Identities -- Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Epilogue -- A Conversation with Ashley Proctor and Bernie Mitchell -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coworking Spaces
• ISBN: 3-031-42268-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910760289003321
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