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The “Mares de Madrid” initiative was promoted between 2016 and 2019 by the city of Madrid under the tenure of the neo-municipalist administration of Manuela Carmena. The initiative was funded by the EU Urban Innovative Actions program and built on the legacy of a variety of grassroots practices that developed in the city as collaborative, social and solidarity economy-oriented responses to neoliberal urban models and successive austerity policies. It intended to create neighbourhood-based and labour-intensive economies focusing on mobility, recycling, food, energy and social care by opening new public facilities where new social and solidarity economy entities could be incubated through various forms of support and participation. These facilities were to be in mostly peripheral neighbourhoods as to respond to the pressing demand for employment characterising the austerity years. Moving from literatures on social innovation, neo-municipalism and coworking, the chapter looks at the case of the Mares de Madrid by questioning its transformative potential – in relation to patterns of participation and power and the spatial relations – and longer-term institutionalisation.
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Coppola, A. (2023). 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. In: Merkel, J., Pettas, D., Avdikos, V. (eds) Coworking Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42268-3_10
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