Masters in Commons Administration: new taster course in 2023
Future Natures
Future Natures explores the global terrain and emergent ecologies of commoning and enclosure, through stories, arts and research.
The Commons
Explore ideas, stories and learning from the commons and commoning around the world.
Encountering the commons in The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice
Anoushka Zoob Carter
How to make a mini-zine
Nathan Oxley
Call for aid: Cooperation Jackson and the city’s urgent water crisis
Future Natures
Hopping over the fence
Nathan Oxley
How mass trespassers in England are venturing on to fenced-off lands to reconnect with lost commons.
Join our online workshop for POLLEN22
Future Natures
Explore an open access online workshop entitled ‘Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures’, including video talks and a discussion forum.
Comic: Future Natures
Future Natures
Introductory comic from Future Natures about modern crises and the radical potential of commoning.
Cultivating the garden of your mind
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Podcast episode with Ron Finley about enclosure in cities and the struggle to build an urban food commons against food poverty.
Bioleft: open seeds
Future Natures
Bioleft is a community that builds an open seed exchange and breeding network.
Trespass, Commons and the Right to Roam
Anoushka Zoob Carter
In this podcast episode, Nick Hayes challenges the inequalities of land ownership and property rights and discusses the Right to Roam movement in the UK.
Treating food as commons, not commodities
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Jose Luis Vivero Pol explores new ways of democratising the governance of food systems and how (re)commoning food in society requires challenging dominant norms that value food as a commodity.
Course: Pathways to Sustainability
Nathan Oxley
Free online course that introduces critical ideas about sustainability, including access to and use of ‘nature’ and ‘natural resources’.
Seeing Pastoralism
Nathan Oxley
An online exhibition about pastoralists and their relationship to commons, as they face many different uncertainties.
On the Promise of the Commons
Anoushka Zoob Carter
In this podcast episode, Vandana Shiva tells the story of historical struggle against colonialism and neoliberal capitalism that involves the commodification of seeds. She explains how re-commoning of seeds is a defence of a shared ecological and human diversity.
Comic: The Killing Famine
Future Natures
Comic about colonisation, mining and conservation in Madagascar, drawing on the history of enclosures of common grazing lands and forests.
Comic: Weird Ecologies
Future Natures
‘Sedentist’ bias and the pastoral commons
Future Natures
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Online and in-person panel discussion that explores how the ‘new commons’ deal with ideas about crisis, global challenges, development and internationalism. How does this compare to dominant approaches in research and policy? What transformative visions motivate commons practice in the long term, and how do commoners seek to change or intervene in wider society?
A regular reading group at the University of Sussex that meets to discuss papers and books about the politics of nature. This week’s theme is ‘Resistance’.
A regular reading group at the University of Sussex that meets to discuss papers and books about the politics of nature. This week’s theme is ‘Police, Prison, Pollution’.
