De la rue à la mairie

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book offers an in-depth look at municipalism, a movement that aims to take power at the local level in order to transform institutions from within. The author also attempts to propose an alternative to state sovereignty that can fuel the imagination of democratic possibilities.

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David Hamou holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Paris-Nanterre. His research focuses on the commons, new forms of democracy, urban social movements and non-state institutions. He has published a thesis on the new synergies between social movements for housing rights and public institutions in the context of the municipalism experiment in Barcelona. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Brasilia in Brazil, he is a member of Casa Comum, a citizen-led project for democratic reconstruction in the post-Bolsonaro era.