The common life of yards

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8078664
AutoresUrsula Lang (0000-0001-9753-2596, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen35
Número6
Páginas852-869
Fecha de publicación2014-06-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2014.926621
OpenAlexW2066025515
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas18

Recent scholarship has begun to reimagine the commons beyond its traditional meaning as a collectively owned and managed natural resource. Building on research that considers commons through the practices which produce and maintain them—commoning—this article analyzes how privately owned front and backyards participate in urban commons. Through ethnographic research in three neighborhoods of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the article shows how these commons are made in two key registers: through yards as shared territories and through everyday practices of sharing plants across individual yards. The article’s central claim is that yards and the everyday practices which take place in and through them constitute one nodal point in the making of urban commons. In so doing, logics of private property come to be interwoven with logics of commoning. By finding a diverse range of common lives of yards, this article adds to emerging conversations about the nature of urban commons

Commons · Environmental planning · Everyday life · Geography · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Scholarship · Sociology · Stormwater · Surface runoff · Yard · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology · Law