Commons, Commoning and Co-Becoming
Nurturing Life-in-Common and Post-Capitalist Futures (An Introduction to the Theme Issue)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gustavo García-López (0000-0002-8005-1574, corresponding author), Gustavo A García-López, Ursula Lang (0000-0001-9753-2596), Neera M Singh (0000-0003-1355-0338), Neera Singh (0000-0001-8642-5744) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1199-1216 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486211051081 |
| OpenAlex | W3217159995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 61 |
Over the last decade, there has been an expansion of scholarly and activist engagement with the commons. This interest corresponds to a growing quest for alternatives to capitalism in view of ongoing socio- ecological crises. As neoliberal capitalism intensifies enclosure of the commons, local actions to reclaim old commons and invent new ones to counter these processes are also on the rise. However, there are diverse conceptions of the commons, and pitfalls in their reproduction and in mobilizing this vocabulary in the dominant neoliberal individualistic culture. Our understanding remains limited about how spaces for commons and commoning practices can be expanded, as well as about specific practices, relations and imaginaries that support commons and subjectivities of being-in-common. This Special Issue on the "Commons, Commoning and Co-becomings" seeks to deepen our understanding of 'actually-existing' and 'more-than- human' commons in the world, and how ways of relating to them open up possibilities of responding to current socioenvironmental challenges and generating beyond-capitalist ways of life. Exploring commoning experiences in diverse settings, the papers assembled in this Special Issue illustrate the role that commons and commoning practices play in reconfiguring human-nature relations. Thinking with these papers, we draw attention to three interrelated areas: relational aspects of the work of commoning (practices, labor, care) in transforming our world and being transformed by it; the role of commons and commoning practices in generating subjectivities of being-in-common; and difference and divergences (or, un-commoning) that persist and emerge in commoning processes. We offer these themes as directions to better understand and enact the potential of commons and commoning for worlding-crafting, (re)producing-of a pluriverse of post-capitalist worlds and life in- common
Capitalism · Commons · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Political Economy and Marxism · Law
Relational knowing as method and practice
Resilience‐as‐doing
Reimagining Development
Afterword
Adapting whilst recovering
Toward a More Globally Attuned Degrowth
Relational Food Geographies, Underwater
Women’s plot-labor
The labour of attachment
Relational approaches to sustainability transformations
Conservation and conviviality in the American West
Commoning of open access resources through urban foraging stewardship
Commoning in enclosures? Recursive organizing of places in the digital age
A commoning framework for environmental archaeology
Commoning art for sustainable engagement with Hong Kong’s existential crises
Educational commons
What Do Doors Do? Door Storyings, Matterings, Adventurings, and Commonings
Introduction
Whose fruits, whose labour? Negotiating community and care-work in urban orchards and food forests
Jobs vs the environment
A Participatory Action Research Using Affective Mapping to Promote Forest Commoning
Creating dialogues as a quiet revolution
Warm spaces as commoning
Becoming a Care-Tizen
What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire
Dreaming the city otherwise
I Learned to Make a Lot More Space in Myself for Other People’
It was never about money!”
Addressing durability in collaborative organising
The more-than-human commons in a crisis-ridden context
Markets, states, and social movements shape commoning and commons
Critical realism in political ecology
Placing the more‐than‐human in environmental gentrification
Engaging theories of care and commoning in articulating an urban pluriverse
Why commoning matters in childhood studies
Theatre of Enforcement at Sea
Thinking-Feeling with the Earth
Governing the Commons
Commonwealth
The Magna Carta Manifesto
Commoning
Moving Beyond Capitalism
Omnia Sunt Communia
Radical Care
Earth Beings
Earth Beings
The New Imperialism
A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management
Ten Theses on Politics
Environmental justice, degrowth and post-capitalist futures
Commoning for inclusion? commons, exclusion, property and socio-natural becomings
Operationalising transformative sustainability science through place-based research
Where is the political? Insurgent mobilisations and the incipient “return of the political”
Climate justice, commons, and degrowth
Beyond capitalist enclosure, commodification and alienation
Political ecology III
Is Small Really Beautiful? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Malawi and Botswana
Working with Strangers in Saturated Space
Actually Existing Commons
The affective commons of Coworking
Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities
Introduction
The common life of yards
The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects
Enchantment and Disenchantment
There is an alternative
Laboring the Earth
We want our land back
The end of the cooperative model (as we knew it)
Rethinking life-in-common in the Australian landscape
Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses
Geographies of degrowth
Creole becoming and the commons
Learning to be human again
"Spirit hospitals and "concern with herbs
Interdependencies, caring, and commoning
The ambivalent political work of emotions in the defence of territory, life and the commons
The Commons
Plant-Human Commoning
Matters of care
As We Have Always Done
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
The Mushroom at the End of the World
The Uncommons
Labour as a Commons
Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler
Beating the bounds
Re-inventing the commons
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |