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Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us about the current political conjuncture and interrogates the possibilities it offers for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community.
The book traces the emergence of contemporary forms of neighbouring through social formations and moments of crisis in Spain. Its analysis provides insights into how neighbouring has been envisaged and contested. It reveals both changing conceptions of space and community while underlining how previous conflicts reverberate in the physical landscape, ideas and memories which inform contemporary political interventions.
‘This engaging book develops the politics of neighbouring as its research method and autogestion as its political standpoint. By exploring a Madrid neighbourhood during the financial crisis, it shows how the politics of neighbouring can decode current global political crises and how autogestion can counteract them. This book serves as an inspiration for scholars seeking to break free from disciplinary neighbouring.’ Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London
‘Tangling with the figure of the neighbour, this beautifully written book redefines political community by showing how borders both bring us together and pull us apart.’ Brett Neilson, Western Sydney University
1. Introduction: Bordering the Crisis
2. Neighbouring in Global Politics
3. Neighbour-as-Archive
4. Toward a Spatial History of the Possible
5. Neighbouring in Crisis
6. Bordering the Neighbour
7. Makeshift Political Community
8. Conclusion: The Crisis of Political Space, Again