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A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging socio-political dimensions of space.

The book emphasizes political elements of Lefebvre's work that have been little explored in research such as his understanding of nationalism, ideology and anti-fascism, while further extending existing research on key concepts by Lefebvre, such as the right to the city, through interdisciplinary perspectives and interpretations. Chapters consider how Lefebvre's thought can contribute to various fields of knowledge such as philosophy and critical studies, politics, space and urban studies, gender and the body. This collection sheds light on space as a site of political conflict and as a potential commons, as well as to raise new discussions and approaches to the question of self-governance.

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction: Reclaiming Henri Lefebvre's critical legacy
PART 1: UPDATING AND INVENTING CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS


1. Some aspects of Lefebvre's contribution to the understanding of 'ideology'
Chryssoula Mitsopoulou

2. Commodity fetishism in Lefebvre's thought or the political character (?) of a non-political concept
Nikos Folinas


3. Rhythmanalysis: Lefebvre's secret garden
Guido Borelli

4. Henri Lefebvre: a heterodox reader of Marx – polis, politics and democracy
Yannis Flytzanis

PART 2: SPACE AS SOCIAL PRAXIS

5. Exploded politics of space: ambiguous households and bodies
Rob Shields

6. Encounters of gender and (urban) space, drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre
Dina Vaiou

7. The possibility of a more egalitarian and accessible city? Henri Lefebvre's Le Droit a la Ville
Laurence Costes

8. On the primary sources of Henri Lefebvre's theory of the 'Production of Space'
Rolando Espinosa

PART 3. POLITICAL STRUGGLES, SOCIAL PRACTICES AND VISIONS OF
THE FUTURE

9. Henri Lefebvre and the national question(s): dilemmas and actualities
Stefan Kipfer

10. Reclaiming the Lefebvrean Right to the City through urban commoning
Stavros Stavrides

11. Crossing urban studies with utopian thought: a Lefebvrian point of view
Francesco Biagi

12. Henri Lefebvre and Cornelius Castoriadis's autogestion: reinventing the polis as project
Marianna Charitonidou
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 09 Jul 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 248
ISBN 9781350537798
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Yannis Flytzanis is a lecturer in Social Theory an…

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