Joan Subirats is a professor of political science at the Institute of Government and Public Politics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Subirats is part of a cross-disciplinary group which has been meeting in Barcelona for some months to discuss the commons.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Barcelona: how to share a city's 'success'The ability to sustain the tension between the inside and the outside of the local institutions, between those who...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBarcelona: ¿como gobernar la distribución del 'exito'?Sólo con la capacidad de mantener la tensión entre dentro y fuera de las instituciones, entre gobernantes y...
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Published in: HomeCatalonia and SpainIf the answer is independence, what was the question? Does is really make sense to demand sovereignty at a time when...
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Published in: HomeThe commons: beyond the market vs. state dilemma
Elinor Ostrom, the Nobel Prizewinner who died this week, pioneered this work. Value is created through the logic of...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of fear
Fear of responding to a politics of fear is a critical aspect of the present weakness in the situation in which...