Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
Coworking Spaces: Alternative Topologies and Transformative Potentials
The Emergence of Coworking and Coworking Spaces
Framing Key Themes: Overview of the Book
Coworking and the Politics of Self-Organization and Community Organization in the City
Care and Labor in Coworking Practices
Alternative Modes of Development Through Coworking and the Policy Responses
Emancipatory and Transformative Potentials of Coworking
References

Part I: Coworking and the Politics of Self-Organization and Community Organization in the City
A Place in the World: A Mapping of Coworking as a Site/Practice of Commoning and Community in Istanbul
Introduction
Research Sites and Methodology
Imagine It Like an Ecosystem!: Neoliberal Discourse on Coworking
Coworking as Mutualism
Coworking as Curation
Contradictory Appeal of Sovereignty and (In)dispensability
A Sublimated Space of the Commons: Dünyada Mekân
Challenges of Commons-Based Coworking
Coworking in the Public: As a Right to the City?
Conclusion

References
Self-Organised Labour: Reclaiming the Commons in the Post-Socialist Space of Southeast Europe
Introduction
Remembering the Commons: A Brief Overview of the Workers' Self-Management in the Former Yugoslavia
Practising the Commons After Socialism
Rojc Community Centre
Magacin Cultural Centre
Termokiss
An Affective Political Power
Conclusion
References
Organisational Decline and the Failure in Alternative Organising: The Case of a Coworking Cooperative
Introduction
Organisational Decline in Alternative Organising
Data and Methodology

Research Process
Analytical Process
The Decline of The Community
Element I: The Community Way
Element II: The Work of Mundane Maintenance
Element III: Working Conditions and the Rise of (Dys)functional Imperatives
Discussion: The Community's Emancipatory and Transformative Potential
Conclusion
References
CWS as Terrains for the (De)territorialisation of Labour: Digital Nomads, Local Coworkers and the Pursuit for Resilient and Cooperative Spaces
Introduction: Changing Labour Landscapes and Ongoing Challenges for CWS
The Rise and Establishment of Remote Work

The Role of CWS in Territorialising Digital Nomads and the Impact on the Urban Environment
Adaptations Towards Facilitating the Needs of Digital Nomads
The Need for a Paradigm Shift for CWS Towards the Cooperative Movement
Conclusion
References
Part II: Care and Labour in Coworking Practices
Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures of Care
Introduction
Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures
Coworking Spaces and Care
Practices of Situated Care in Coworking Spaces
Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures of Care
References
Coworking Spaces in Aotearoa New Zealand: Embodied Geographies of Care in Pandemic Times