Radically Legal
Author(s): Joanna Kusiak
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Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discovers a forgotten clause that allows them to take 240,000 homes back from multi-billion corporations. In this work of creative non-fiction, scholar-activist and Nine Dots Prize winner Joanna Kusiak tells the story of a grassroots movement that convinced a million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble. She offers a vision of urban housing as democratically held commons, legally managed by a radically new institutional model that works through democratic conflicts. Moving between interdisciplinary analysis and her own personal story, Kusiak connects the dots between the past and the present, the local and the global, and shows the potential of radically legal politics as a means of strengthening our democracies and reviving the rule of law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Combines personal reflections and academic scholarship to create an engaging and accessible critique of legal theory as well as the DWE movement
- Takes a balanced view of the issue of housing, and how law is used for the benefit of society
- Looks at how housing policy and finance in cities around the world have worked to the benefit of corporations rather than citizens
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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