1st Edition
The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe
Introduction: A puzzling observation; Exploring institutionalisation in civic initiatives; Approaching civic initiatives: conceptual cornerstones of research; Research methods: exploring two long-standing European civic initiatives; Book structure; Theorising civic initiatives: direct civic actions, public problems, and institutions: The limits of seeing civic initiatives as experimental generators of public effects; Rooting civic initiatives in action: the experience of public problems and direct civic action; Civic initiatives and institutions: introducing a dynamic conceptualisation; Encountering new problematic situations: experience and innovation; Institutionalising direct civic action in and beyond civic initiatives: Establishing practices based on friendship and autonomy: Stanica in Žilina, Slovakia; Mixing activism and professionalism: Mains d'œuvres in St-Ouen, France; Instituting practices, public services and models of direct civic action: Institutionalised civic initiatives and new problematic situations; The Nová Synagóga project: an experimental renovation of national heritage; The Espace Imaginaire project: co-managing an open field of possibilities; Trajectories of experimentation: blocked innovations and wider transformations; The evolutions of direct civic action: Approaching problematic situations through direct civic actions; Civic initiatives and public policy; Direct civic action as a model for intervention; Conclusion: Understanding the institutionalisation of civic initiatives; Suggestions for public policies and policy-making; Limits and future directions for research; Looking back, and looking forward.
Biography
Francesco Campagnari is an urban scholar. He holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (EF-ST) at the Centre d‘étude des mouvements sociaux (Ehess, Paris, France), with a research project exploring the effects of supralocal and translocal relations on direct civic actions of urban transformation. He is also Adjunct professor in Urban and regional planning at Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy. His research focuses on processes of experience and treatment of urban public problems by direct civic actions, with particular attention to their grammars of problematisation and publicisation and to their construction, institutionalisation, innovation and diffusion of intervention models, plans and policies. He is also interested in the use of pragmatist philosophy and ethnography in urban and planning research.
