Beschreibung:
Samuel Kirwan is a post-doctoral research associate, Socio-Legal Studies, Bristol University, UK.
Across the globe, political movements opposing privatisation, enclosures, and other spatial controls are coalescing towards the idea of the 'commons'. As a result, struggles over the commons and common life are now coming to the forefront of both political activism and scholarly enquiry. This book advances academic debates concerning the spatial
Part I: Materialising the Commons 1. Building the commons in eco-communities 2. A politics of the common: Revisiting the late nineteenth century Open Spaces movement through Rancière's aesthetic lens 3. A Spirit of the Common: Reimagining "The Common Law" with Jean-Luc Nancy Part II: Commoning 4. The More-than-Human Commons : From Commons to Commoning 5. 'Where's the trick?': Practices of commoning across a reclaimed shop front Part III: An Expanded Commons 6. Expanding the subject of planning: enacting the relational complexities of more-than-human urban common(er)s 7. Occupy the Future 8. Imaginaries of a Global Commons: Memories of Violence and Social Justice Part IV: The Capture of the Commons 9. The Matter of Spirituality & the Commons 10. Controlled Natures: Disorder and Dissensus in the Urban Park