{"product_id":"take-over-the-city","title":"Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTake Over the City\u003c\/em\u003e provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTake Over the City\u003c\/em\u003e is the first systemic spatial account of Italian operaismo. Drawing on the Marxist urban theory of Henri Lefebvre and others, the book situates the struggles of operaismo, especially in the 1970s, within an incipient-yet-tendential phase of global urbanization. In doing so, the book draws attention to previously neglected urban struggles in the wider social factory, recognizing these as immanent to the new spatial composition of capital in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that these innovative urban struggles carry important lessons for contemporary forms of organization and social conflict in the sphere of social reproduction. They drew attention to, and acted within, a tendency that has only become more entrenched since the 1970s: the centrality of urbanization and real estate to national political economies. If urbanization has become increasingly central for capital accumulation processes, it follows that urban struggle must become increasingly central to anti capitalist struggle. The struggles to ‘Take Over the City’ in 1970s Italy provide an important marker of how this might be done in the current era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution—class composition—the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized. It seeks to both spatialize readings of operaismo through the concept of spatial composition and to radicalize urban theory with Italian autonomist Marxist thought and practice. This should be of interest to those interested in autonomist praxis more generally, and those interested in radical urban history, contemporary urban struggles and social reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Addresses a gap in the existing scholarship on Italian operaismo by turning attention to the spatial dimensions of a tradition that has been examined primarily through the lens of factory politics and philosophical category-building. Neil Gray offers a productive framework for thinking through the relationship between urban space and political struggle. Methodical and convincing.” —Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Take Over the City is an extremely original book. Neil’s use of ‘spatial composition’ is a significant moment in the ongoing rethinking of political theory, one that is informed by an excellent grounding in critical geography.” —Steve Wright, author of\u003cem\u003e Storming Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Across a highly readable account of operaismo and autonomist movements from the 1960s to the 1977, Gray elaborates how a politics of space was largely overlooked by operaist analyses of class composition and yet central to the struggles of the new social subjects, women, internal migrants, students, and the youth proletariat.” Miriam Tola, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Ecomedia Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeil Gray\u003c\/strong\u003e is a working class autodidact based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a former editor for Variant magazine and his writing and research have appeared in numerous magazines and academic journals. He is a long-term housing and anti-gentrification activist and is the editor of\u003cem\u003e Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle (2018).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIntroduction: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Spatialities of Italian Operaismo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePART I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e1.\u003cstrong\u003e Class Composition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e2. \u003cstrong\u003eSpatial Composition and the Tendency\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e3. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Social Factory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e4. \u003cstrong\u003eUrban Restructuring, Italian Style\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e5. \u003cstrong\u003eTake Over the City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e6. \u003cstrong\u003eThe City and Social Reproduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eConclusion: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Future at Our Backs?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44906721869917,"sku":"9781945335631","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/TakeOvertheCitySpatialCompositioninItalianAutonomy.jpg?v=1789742286","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/take-over-the-city","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}