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Iolanda Bianchi @iolsss.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Glad that my article, "The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public-common partnerships" is included in this Top 10!

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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 31/07/2025

🔻La UE firma con EEUU el peor acuerdo comercial desde Múnich 1938. Sin beneficios. Sin contraprestaciones. Solo promesas de inversión, compra de armamento y dependencia energética A cambio: previsibilidad La barbarie también es previsible 📝 @guillemmartinez.bsky.social ctxt.es/es/20250701/...

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Lo previsible

El vertido de capital público a EEUU supone una estocada histórica al bienestar, seriamente enfermo tras darle para el pelo desde los ochenta. La buena noticia es que según la Comisión tendremos prev...

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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🤔 What's the point of democratic innovation? Can it address crurrent crises and build democracies for the future? 💡In this new article @adrianbua.bsky.social and I argue that the field needs to strengthen its change-making orientation and capacity. Open access 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Democratic innovation for change: A participatory corrective to deliberative hegemony - Oliver Escobar, Adrian Bua, 2025

The world faces social, political, economic, and ecological crises, and there is doubt that democratic governance can cope. Democracies rely on a narrow set of ...

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Iolanda Bianchi @iolsss.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

😊It doesn’t happen every day to publish a book! Evolving from my PhD, Barcelona explores the relation between urban commons and the local state in the city, proposing a nuanced, urban-based lens to move beyond the dichotomy of cooptation and support. 👉 encr.pw/NP4MB

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CRIT. Creativitat, innovació i Transformació Urbana @critubresearch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

📢 We’re launching our Bluesky account with the publication of Iolanda Bianchi’s new book: Barcelona Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages (Routledge, 2025). 📢 ¡Estrenamos cuenta con este gran lanzamiento! 🔗 www.crit.ub.edu?p=4384 #UrbanCommons #CRIT #Barcelona @iolsss.bsky.social

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New Book by Iolanda Bianchi: Barcelona Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages (Routledge, 2025) – CRIT

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

On boycotting the ISA in Rabat: a) ISS needs to be expelled, not suspended; b) Z!on!st abstracts need to be removed from the program; c) Affiliations to universities complicit with the g¤n¤c!d3 must be removed In full www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/06... @pacbi.bsky.social @gs4p.bsky.social

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Iolanda Bianchi @iolsss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This is the way forward... Evaluation agencies have instilled a neoliberal logic into academia—making it more competitive and production-driven, taking into consideration mostly quantitative criteria that fail to grasp the complexity of universities and research

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Iolanda Bianchi @iolsss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Me pregunto cual son los protocolos de calor de la empresa (por que según la empresa se respetaron), si la trabajadora empezó su turno a las 14:30 en plena ola de calor, en un dia con 40 grados.... beteve.cat/societat/com...

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Compareix el director del servei de neteja de Barcelona per la mort d'una treballadora

El director del servei de neteja de Barcelona compareix públicament, després de la mort d'una treballadora aquest dissabte, en plena onada de calor.

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

England's broken water system needs a change of ownership. Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell argue for @abundance-org.bsky.social that we need more than that: a new model built around social control of water, prioritising & empowering workers & communities. www.in-abundance.org/reports/beyo...

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Beyond the Public: Experiences in the Social Control of Water | Bertie Russell & Keir Milburn

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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago @multipliciudad.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🚨 New paper out in @urbanstudiesjournal.com 🚨 It discusses the notion of commonist urbanization, a spatial force aimed at the reproduction of the common rather than capital. Rejecting defensive tactics, commonism is framed as a totalizing principle spanning multiple scales. (Link below)

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A study using government data finds that if all businesses became 30% employee-owned, the bottom 90% would experience significant gains in wealth, with much of the benefits going to marginalized groups. If we're serious about addressing wealth inequality, worker ownership must be at the forefront.

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Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration

This paper examines the impact of an economy-wide shift to broad-based employee ownership on wealth concentration in the United States. Relying on government da

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Iolanda Bianchi @iolsss.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

S’ha tornat a l’Ajuntament gerencial i clientista dels darrers governs del PSC, sense voluntat d’innovació per atendre les persones i fomentar la biodiversitat i la salut. www.ara.cat/129_51f5d0?u...

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Barcelona, enrere

Dos anys després de les eleccions municipals, a l’equador del mandat, es poden establir, amb certesa, les característiques del govern de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, del PSC en minoria. I la més visible...

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Yolanda Díaz @yolandadiaz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

En Italia están en juego los derechos de las personas trabajadoras. Me he reunido con Maurizio Landini para mostrarle mi apoyo en estos momentos decisivos. La internacional reaccionaria pone en juego la Europa de derechos. Los frenaremos con avances y construyendo la internacional de la esperanza.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Iolanda Bianchi @iolsss.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

«Haz la maleta con lo esencial y ven conmigo. No pierdas el tiempo esperando, es hora de huir. Y cuando huyes no solo huyes, también buscas nuevas técnicas de supervivencia, nuevas formas de amistad y de erotismo».#Bifo www.diario.red/articulo/arm...

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Esperanza, depresión y deserción

La diferencia entre Trump y Harris radica en que Trump te arrastra alegremente al abismo para hacer América grande de nuevo, mientras que Harris te arrastra alegremente al mismo sitio por razones que ...

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