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 spatialities of the commons and draws out the diverse materialities, temporalities, and experiences of practices of commoning.
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