TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kusiak,Joanna
TI  - Radically legal: Berlin constitutes the future 
SN  - 9781009516914 (ebook)
AV  - KK4450 .K87 2024
U1  - 344.43/063635 23/eng/20240310
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Germany
KW  - Rule of law
KW  - Housing
KW  - Law and legislation
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2024); Taking the tram home : prelude to change -- We are all staying put : property and freedom -- Berlin becomes a high risk capital : the law and movement -- Who constitutes power? : checks and balances -- Berlin is the greatest extravaganza : sexy and solidaristic -- The rule of law is having a midlife crisis : shadow and difference -- Before the law : Franz Kafka feat. DWE; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009516914
ER  -