Iolanda Bianchi
Iolanda Bianchi (PhD in Political Science and PhD in Urban Planning) is an urban and political sociologist. She works in the field of urban governance, policy and collective action. Her research focuses on the role of cities as agents of transformation; on progressive urban and territorial policies, including housing, water management, and culture; on the management and democratisation of local public services; on the governance of urban public land and assets; and on the commons as a transformative form of governance. She currently holds a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellowship at the University of Barcelona. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Antwerp and a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Research areas: urban democracy, progressive urban politics, policy, and service management, urban collective action. Research topics: new municipalism, urban commons, public-common partnerships, co-production of public policies, public asset and land governance.
Bianchi, I. (2024). The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public–common partnerships. Policy & Politics (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2024D000000033 [Q1 SJR, Sociology and political science]
Bianchi, I. (2023). The commonification of the public under new municipalism: Commons–state institutions in Naples and Barcelona. Urban Studies, 60(11), 2116-2132. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221101460 [Q1 SJR, Urban studies] Link to postprint version
News
I am happy to announce that my book Barcelona: urban commons and local state assemblages has been published by Routledge. Evolving from my PhD, it explores the relation between urban commons and the local state in the city through the lens of assemblage theory, proposing a nuanced, urban-based lens to move beyond the neo-Marxist vs. neo-institutionalist dichotomy of cooptation and support.
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