January Gessa meeting with speaker and PhD candidate Olivia Williams
At our January 14th meeting, Olivia Williams presented her research titled "Inserting scales of urban politics: The possibilities for community lands trusts as meso-urban governance shims". Her discussion covered issues such as:
Different types of governance other than the idea of the nation-state and functions at different scales.
Governance shim (wedge) ---> collective property rights.
an emergent authority (from below) rather than from the state (above).
e.g. Community Land Trusts - allows for more local control of property, accessible for low-income people.
Find below a record of the meeting minutes and other upcoming group activities.
GESSA January General Meeting
Updates:
Jan 31-- “adopt a road” cleanup
Volunteering with Alzheimer’s center-- talk to Peter
Garden update: growing kohlrabi, broccoli, beans, tomato. Seeds provided by FSU. Great way to learn to garden and get free veggies. Located near Circus. - Work hours: 5-7pm on Thursdays
Perhaps a camping trip in February-- carpool, fire, get to know each other
Providence Canyon 2 hrs away
Undergraduates: want to learn from “older and wiser” graduate students, opportunities, next steps
Request to join the Facebook group! Best way to keep tabs on the group
Sean has website running-- will be complete soon. Will be a great resource for getting info, data, etc.
If people have papers, projects you want to share, talk to Peter to present at next meeting
Presentation from Olivia Williams, PhD candidate
Tite: Inserting scales of urban politics: The possibilities for community lands trusts as meso-urban governance shims
Different types of governance other than nation-state→ different scales
governance shim (wedge) ---> collective property rights
an emergent authority (from below) rather than from the state (above)
e.g. Community Land Trusts - allows for more local control of property, accessible for low-income people