Thinking the commons

Amin, Ash; Howell, Philip

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“…Earlier approaches to commons represented the uncooperative and cynical attitudes of humans leading to the tragic ruination of environments (Hardin, 1967), and accommodated commons mostly outside state and private property in the sphere of self-organization (Ostrom, 1990). However, urbanization, as a significant driver of wider globalization, forces us to look more closely at the complex commoning of shared resources and knowledge (see also Amin and Howell, 2016). Therefore, commoning and the urban commons raise questions about how some resources, institutions and social actors become mobilized in generating shared spaces and things in the context of urban change (Kip, 2015;Kip et al, 2015;Naciomento, 2016).…”

Section: The Commons As Commoning Between Informalities and The Constmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We argue that the situated process of commoning could open up entanglements between informalities and formal institutions triggering the informalization of spatial planning and also influencing the maintenance of the urban commons. Amin and Howell (2016) argue that, parallel to systematic encroachment on life and resources once held in common, new spaces open up for cooperation, collective action and solidarity networks. Therefore, the commoning process constantly generates new material and immaterial urban commons that render some concerns visible and leave a certain potential in reserve (Di Feliciantonio, 2017).…”

Section: The Commons As Commoning Between Informalities and The Constmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, urban commons appear as a process through assemblages of formal-informal practices that legitimate ways of dealing with socio-economic disturbances. This means that the gardening produces public concerns and organizational potential that actively form emergent trajectories of change and multiple forms of being-in-common (see also Amin and Howell, 2016). The negotiations and precarious conditions related to urban gardening are part of a fragmentary and experimental commoning that brings together activist initiatives, vernacular practices of care, and city planning.…”

Section: Features Of Urbanity Among Gardening Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva

Pikner¹,

Willman²,

Jokinen³

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines the processes of urban commoning and its co-produced features of urbanity, making the claim that, through these processes, informality becomes translated into institutionalized city planning. Commoning is analysed through a comparative study that utilizes contingent features of urbanity and three modalities accommodating the informality-formality meshwork during urban change. The article contributes to research on urban transformations by integrating commons, informality dynamics and the constitution of state institutions. This focus is elaborated with reference to collective gardening practices in the context of two of the less studied European cities, Narva in Estonia and Tampere in Finland. The results of the study indicate that urban commoning takes place through delegating a public mandate and enacting uncertainty, two processes that informalize city government practices. Particular differences appeared in regard to the institutional porosity that enables unregulated spaces of collective gardening to be mobilized as part of urban politics. We argue that networked movements appear as an essential part of the urban logic of action producing meaningful connections in an informal-formal meshwork and bringing together multiple sites in the commoning process.

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Section: The Commons As Commoning Between Informalities and The Constmentioning

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Section: The Commons As Commoning Between Informalities and The Constmentioning

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Section: Features Of Urbanity Among Gardening Commonsmentioning

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Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva

Pikner¹,

Willman²,

Jokinen³

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…And a focus on space does not take us into disciplinary fields that take a particular interest in spatial concerns but rather outward across a range of social and political domains that draw on ideas of space. This opens up possibilities for an alternative politics focused around notions such as the commons: The challenge, as Amin and Howell (2016) put it, is to reconceive the commons at a time when the most basic of commons -the planet itself -is under threat.…”

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Applied linguistics as epistemic assemblage

Pennycook

2018

AILA

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Any discussion of transdisciplinary applied linguistics needs to engage with three central questions. First, while interdisciplinarity may allow for disciplines to stay in place and engage with each other, transdisciplinarity implies a space beyond or above disciplines. As a result, we have to consider whether applied linguistics is seen as a discipline (in which case it is not transdisciplinary) or whether it is seen as a transdisciplinary field of study (in which case it is not a discipline). Second, while applied linguists may engage with work from other fields -sociology, geography, philosophy, cognitive science are common examples -this does not necessarily mean that we engage with those fields as disciplines. Rather, the engagement with such work is often on the basis that relevant thinkers are engaging themselves with broader epistemic shifts. Such work may therefore be seen as having to do with epistemes rather than disciplines. Third, a focus on transdisciplinarity obscures broader concerns about unequal relations of knowledge production, particularly between North and South. If applied linguistics is to become a responsible field of work, it needs to engage with southern epistemologies. In order to do so, applied linguistic practices can be more usefully understood as temporary assemblages of thought and action that come together at particular moments when language-related concerns need to be addressed. This flexible account helps us see how applied linguistic practices are assemblages of different language-oriented projects, epistemes and matters of concern.

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“…commoning (Bollier and Helfrich, 2014;Caffentzis and Federici, 2014;Chatterton et al, 2013;De Angelis, 2013;Linebaugh, 2009). They further argue that commons should not be just 'dykes against neoliberalism' (Caffentzis and Federici, 2014), but a process to create a common(s) society with 'qualitatively different social relations' towards more equalitarian and ecological re/production (Federici, in Open!, 2014; also Amin and Powell, 2016;Antonio, 2013;Dawney, 2013;Gibson-Graham, 2006;MacKenzie, 2010).…”

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Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability

Velicu

García-López

2018

Theory, Culture & Society

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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.

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Thinking the commons

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Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva

Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva

Applied linguistics as epistemic assemblage

Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability

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