Beyond the New Municipalism: Towards Post-Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe

IF 3.6 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Antipode Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI:10.1111/anti.70030

Andoni Egia-Olaizola, Unai Villalba-Eguiluz, Xabier Gainza

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The so-called new municipalism has spread in different geographical settings as an attempt to democratise the economy and politics in the local sphere, in response to contemporary capitalist contradictions. However, it has encountered political, economic, and scale limitations that have prevented it from consolidating alternatives for territorial transformation. This paper presents the concept of territorial sovereignty as an analytical tool that provides a roadmap to advance towards radical post-capitalist alternatives. Taking the experience of Hernani (Basque Country) as a case study where this proposal is being implemented, the article explores, by means of action research, the potentialities and limits of this concept. Territorial sovereignty is materialised through Public-Economic-Community (PEC) planning, which offers the conditions to democratise planning, promote a post-capitalist economy, and unfold transcalar strategies. The article discusses to what extent this experience displays the conditions to overcome the framework of capitalist relations and promotes a transition towards ecosocialism.

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超越新市政主义：以布鲁贾贝为例的后资本主义领土主权

作为对当代资本主义矛盾的回应，所谓的新市政主义在不同的地理环境中传播，试图使当地的经济和政治民主化。然而，它遇到了政治、经济和规模的限制，这些限制阻碍了它巩固领土转型的替代方案。本文提出了领土主权的概念，作为一种分析工具，提供了走向激进的后资本主义替代方案的路线图。本文以埃尔纳尼（巴斯克地区）的经验为例，通过行动研究的方式，探讨了这一概念的潜力和局限性。领土主权是通过公共经济共同体（PEC）规划实现的，它为规划民主化、促进后资本主义经济和展开跨尺度战略提供了条件。本文讨论了这一经验在多大程度上显示了克服资本主义关系框架并促进向生态社会主义过渡的条件。

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Antipode GEOGRAPHY-

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9.50

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10.00%

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111

期刊介绍： Antipode has published dissenting scholarship that explores and utilizes key geographical ideas like space, scale, place, borders and landscape. It aims to challenge dominant and orthodox views of the world through debate, scholarship and politically-committed research, creating new spaces and envisioning new futures. Antipode welcomes the infusion of new ideas and the shaking up of old positions, without being committed to just one view of radical analysis or politics.