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Our collaborative paper is now open access in Urban Geographies

 Maria LindmäeWe are very proud to see the first collaborative paper of the Moving MarketPlace project,  'Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets', being published in Urban Geography. Rather than follow the usual academic practice of authorship being attributed alphabetically or in proportion to specific contribution, our team decided to publish some of our outputs under the collective author MMP. This decision is to reflect the different and valuable contribution of all team members and also to challenge the individualism of some academic practices.

By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, the paper discusses the effects of COVID-19 on the everyday production of European markets. Markets did not simply stop functioning as public space but rather took on different forms that extended spatially beyond their physical boundaries. These transformations allowed for the continuation of the social and political dimensions of public space. The paper is part of a special issue on "The end, or beginning, of public space?", edited by Loretta Lees and Jason Luger.

You can now read it on Urban Geography.