The common life of yards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8078664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ursula Lang (0000-0001-9753-2596, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 852-869 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02723638.2014.926621 |
| OpenAlex | W2066025515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 18 |
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
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Commonwealth
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Seeking the urban common
Urban political ecology I
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Actually Existing Commons
Flowers in the bathtub
In quest of a new humanism
The practice of everyday life
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People, plants and performance
Atmospheric Attunements
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |