Category: Agrarian Space
Stories from spaces and struggles involving people whose lives depend on growing food and living off the land.
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What is land for?
Histories of enclosure and profit shape what can be grown on the land, as Scotland’s history illustrates.
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What happened to the global land grab?
Ian Scoones discusses the aftermath and legacies of the ‘global land grab’ ahead of a major international conference on the topic.
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Photo story: Xolobeni – A Commoning Success Story
Photo story about the struggle by people in Xolobeni to protect and develop their commons against extractive interests.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
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Mapping community gardens in the UK
The organisation Sustain provides a map of community gardens around the UK, and organises a weekend of action where gardens invite people in to take part.
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A Portuguese village on the front line of the ‘energy transition’
Covas de Barroso is facing the threat of an open-cast lithium mine, with just 10 days to respond to a public consultation.
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Comic: Seeing Conflict at the Margins
A comic explores views of resource conflicts from the perspectives of rural people in Kenya and Madagascar, shared with the help of participatory video methods.
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Seeding the commons in Argentina
Podcast episode with Almendra Cremaschi of Bioleft, a seed commoning initiative based in Argentina.
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Unsettling enclosures
Anoushka Zoob Carter asks what the unsettling of enclosures looks like on the land in three different contexts.
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How could land in England be reformed for the commons?
Elise Wach explores the proposals from various social movements for changing how England’s rural spaces are governed.