About the European Municipalism Network

Since the emergence of the Spanish “Cities of Change” in 2015, there has been a renewed interest globally in the potential of local politics to achieve broad social and political transformations under the name of “municipalism”. A new wave of politicians and policies that have tackled global pressing issues: social inequalities in the access to essential means of social reproduction, the impacts of the Climate Crisis, and the emergence of Far-Right nationalism. More importantly, this municipalist wave represents a promising way of building political power from the ground-up to challenge how the institutions are managed and experimenting with radical forms of democratisation and feministisation of the way institutional politics work.

These municipalist dynamics have been particularly strong in the European continent. Several international gatherings and summits organised in the past years – including international and local Fearless Cities events in Barcelona, Warsaw, Naples and Belgrade, or The Future is Public confrence in Amsterdam – have nourished an informal network of organisations, projects and individuals interested in supporting the municipalist hypothesis. During the summit in Belgrade in June 2019, some of the more active actors of this loose network developed the European Municipalist Network project as a collective strategy to strengthen this emerging ecosystem.

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A collaborative cartography of the municipalist ecosystem

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European Municipalist Network

 

The municipalist hypothesis is based on the potential of local politics to achieve broad social and political transformations. It seeks to build political power from the ground-up that challenges how the institutions are managed and experiments with radical forms of democratisation and feministisation of politics. Municipalism is grounded in a rich tradition of autonomy and self-governance of the territories that confront both the State and the Market's rule.

The European Municipalist Network project gathers some of the actors of this ecosystem in a collective strategy to strengthen the emerging municipalist processes in Europe and beyond.

https://municipalisteurope.org

The Mapping Process

The aim of this map is to increase the visibility of municipalist initiatives and to articulate a common voice. During the mapping process, we have identified social, institutional and translocal municipalist actors that recognise themselves as experiences working towards economic, social and ecological just territories that are part of a trans/local/national socio-political movement.

While we are aware that there is no single 'model' of municipalist organising, we started the mapping by identifying shared principles and aims put in practice in different territories. You can read these criteria on the EMN website: https://municipalisteurope.org/mapping/post/how/ Between Novermber 2021 and July 2022, we gathered the available knowledge based on our own experience as part of municipalist movements and the information provided by other actors present in the various networks and relationships established in the last few years. After this first identification, we asked the actors to fill a self-assessment that we have used to produce the map.

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