The most important project results can be found in the publications and can be summarized as follows:
1. Urban activism is a feature in the post-Yugoslav space, which increased in importance over the last decade.
2. In post-conflict, divided societies such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, grassroots mobilization to reclaim the urban space offered the opportunity to re-appropriate cultural buildings and public space which were at times contested. Moreover, it contributed to trigger collective reflection upon the notion of urban commons. The research disclosed that in a post-conflict and post-socialist society like BiH urban commons can bear a unifying potential as they favor trust reconstruction processes and strengthen community ties
3. In Croatia the attempt to move from the squares to town halls in 2017 proved successful to the extent that members of the municipalist platform “Zagreb je naš” (Zagreb is ours) entered first the city assembly and later the National Parliament upon forming the political party and platform “Možemo” (We can). Contrariwise, in Belgrade the electoral list “Promena dolazi” (Change is coming), running for elections in 2018, did not manage to reach the necessary threshold. In BiH no electoral platform was created given the lack of resources and an institutional system that discourages the formation of progressive political platforms
4. In the three cases analyzed, the attempt of Right to the City groups and political platforms to redefine the notion of citizenship unfolded in two directions: on the one hand, it was inspired by successful European experiences of local governance from below. On the other hand, it reappraised the socialist experience of self-government and the participatory tools it envisaged.
These findings have been exploited by means of publications (a monograph, two published articles, three accepted with minor revisions, one article and a Special Issue underway, op-eds, policy reports, etc.) and communication and dissemination activities, such as presentations at conferences and conventions, as well as regular contributions on the media and in the press by means of interviews, public lectures, articles, op-eds and blog posts. The exploitation will continue in the upcoming years.
