Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-501-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-501-2025
Intervention
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03 Dec 2025
Intervention |  | 03 Dec 2025

Queering urban commons: (re)negotiating space, time, labor, and power in marginal urbanities

Leandra Maria Choffat

Cited articles

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This article examines how marginal collectives that organize around access to land and housing in Switzerland negotiate power dynamics to avoid reproducing existing inequalities. It considers what queer collective practices of organizing time, space, and labor add to these negotiations while also working to disrupt capitalist inequalities in contemporary urban contexts. These arguments are illustrated through examples from participatory observations.
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