Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Asanda Benya
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Commons

scholarly journals Reclaiming the Commons: Law, Rhetoric, and C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatic Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 174387212093593
Author(s):  
Sarah Hakimzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Legitimacy ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Pragmatic Philosophy

This article returns to C.S. Peirce’s pragmatic philosophy and Roberta Kevelson’s law and semiotics framework in order to propose a theory of justice that is rooted in rhetoric and the community’s evolving sense of legal legitimacy. It argues that this community is best conceptualized as part of the commons, the basis for a governance paradigm that is newly emerging from the world of activism. After providing an overview of the theory, it describes two promising litigation efforts designed to reclaim the commons from privatization.

Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 55-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Velicu ◽  
Gustavo García-López
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Multiple Exposures ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Ambiguous Effect

In this paper we propose an ‘undisciplinary’ meeting between Elinor Ostrom and Judith Butler, with the intent to broaden the theory of the commons by discussing it as a relational politics. We use Butler’s theory of power to problematize existing visions of commons, shifting from Ostrom’s ‘bounded rationality’ to Butler’s concepts of ‘bounded selves’ and mutual vulnerability. To be bounded – as opposed to autonomous being – implies being an (ambiguous) effect of socio-power relations and norms that are often beyond control. Thus, to be a collective of bounded selves implies being mutually vulnerable in power relations which are enabling, albeit injurious. A politics of commoning is not a mere technical management of resources (in space) but a struggle to perform common livable relations (in time). We argue that the multiple exposures which produce us are also the conditions of possibility for more just and equalitarian ‘re-commoning’ of democracies around the world.

Agent-Based Simulation for Consumers’ Behavior Mode on Low-Carbon Buildings

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1524-1528
Author(s):  
Fu Qun
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Agent Based Simulation ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The World ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Energy Consuming ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Transitioning to purchasing low carbon buildings is vital for pro-environment because it consume less energy. Consumers’ attitudes may fall into three categories: Supportive, opposed and neutral. By simulating the agents’ behaviors based on evolutionary models which believes that buying low carbon buildings can reduce energy consuming and protect environment. At the same time, it assumes environment is shared by all the agents and those against the low carbon won’t receive penalty. Human being can exploit renewable and new energy with developed technology. Evolutionary theory explains people who get energy will affect people’s attitudes around them, while those lack of energy will change their behaviors. Research proves that opponents will dominant in the world without punishments and their behaviors increase pollution. So it is necessary to improve social education and let government to take administrative compulsory measures or legislate in order to get rid of “tragedy of the commons” produced by consuming non-low carbon buildings.

I. The Committee-Men in the Long Parliament, August 1642–December 1643

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Glow
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The Political ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons

It has been said that the Civil War was won by committees. Recent writers on this subject have begun to show how parliamentary policy and its execution was forged in the committee chambers rather than on the crowded floor of the House of Commons. This article is concerned with the personnel of these committees, in particular with those men who were not famous for their political activities and attitudes. Obviously, a core of leaders was needed in order to direct the business of the committees, to give continuity to their proceedings and to ensure that their work was in accord with the policy of the Commons. But the political ‘parties’ were relatively small, and with all the enthusiasm in the world their members could not attend personally to all aspects of government, civil and military. This study is concerned with the men who had no known political views but who contributed a great deal of time and effort to the running of parliamentary affairs. Because of their relative obscurity in the House it will be useful to ask why they were chosen to serve on certain committees, how their background and activity compared with that of their more ‘political’ colleagues, and how they reacted to situations where they were required to take a political stand. Above all, it will be possible to judge whether these men formed a coherent group rather than a random collection of individuals. These men owed their positions to their administrative skill rather than to their political affiliations. As administrators they were responsible to the legislature, and during a time of intensified state intervention, they became analogous to a non-political civil service, ready to execute the policy decisions of the party leaders.

scholarly journals Towards an Ethnography Commons

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Eli Elinoff
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Transformative Research ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Writing Culture ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

How might the notion of an ethnography commons transform ethnographic research practice and pedagogy? In this paper, I consider how the concept of the commons, in all of its messiness, might provide a way of not only addressing questions surrounding the boundaries of ethnographic research and knowledge that have been fundamental to anthropology since Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus 1986), but also for crafting more transformative research and social interventions into the world itself. I do so first by considering how contemporary structures of capitalism are shaping the university, our research, and our relationships with our students. Then, I trace the ways in which the debates about the boundaries of ethnography have transformed research and pedagogy over the last 20 years. Finally, I conclude by suggesting a number of potential trajectories for acting on the promise of the commons through ethnographic teaching and research.

ACT-UP and the Queer Commons

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (93) ◽  
pp. 126-132
Author(s):  
Sean Grattan
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Act Up ◽  
The Way

Focusing on the way that ACT-UP actually achieved many of its goals while also creating a commons around belonging, protest, and disability, this article interrogates the displaced position of ACT-UP and AIDS organizing and protest in recent discussions of the commons and protest more generally. Drawing on short readings of Sarah Schulman’s People in Trouble and David Feinberg’s Queer and Loathing, this article invokes the importance of not forgetting the power of protest during ACT-UP to envision the world as something other than it is and to necessarily dwell in the utopian possibilities opened up by this particular queer commons.

Commons, Commoning and Co-Becoming: Nurturing Life-in-Common and Post-Capitalist Futures (An Introduction to the Theme Issue)

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110510
Author(s):  
Gustavo A. García-López ◽  
Ursula Lang ◽  
Neera Singh
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Individualistic Culture ◽  
Ways Of Life

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.

On the question of cheap care: Regarding A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-207
Author(s):  
Kathleen Lynch ◽  
Mags Crean
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Abstract Ideas ◽  
Nature And Society

One of the most engaging claims of Patel and Moore’s book is that abstract ideas have played a powerful role legitimating the exploitation of swathes of humanity, through distinguishing ontologically and epistemologically between nature and society. As most women, and indigenous people, were defined as part of nature, their labours and lives, including their care labour, were deemed to be part of nature and thereby legitimately exploitable. The authors claim that the cheapening of care arose from the separation of spheres between care work and paid work, between home and the economy, arising from the development of enclosures and the demise of the commons. What the book does not address, however, is how the exploitation of women’s domestic and care labour was not only beneficial to capitalism: men of all classes were and are beneficiaries of women’s unpaid care labour. The authors also suggest that the primary purpose of caring is to reproduce people for capitalism. But caring is not undertaken simply at the behest of capitalism. Nurturing and caring for others are defining features of humanity given the lengthy dependency of humans at birth and at times of vulnerability. The logic of care is very different to market logic.

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