Category: Nature & Natural Resources
Ideas and stories that show how people understand, value and struggle over nature and natural resources.
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Encountering the commons in The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice
The history of enclosure in Portugal can be found in the art world and forest worlds. Connecting the two are ongoing struggles to recommon these spaces…
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Hopping over the fence
How mass trespassers in England are venturing on to fenced-off lands to reconnect with lost commons.
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Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures – video recordings
Explore an open access online workshop entitled ‘Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures’, including video talks and a discussion forum.
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Cultivating the garden of your mind
Podcast episode with Ron Finley about enclosure in cities and the struggle to build an urban food commons against food poverty.
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Trespass, Commons and the Right to Roam
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.
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Treating food as commons, not commodities
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.
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Course: Pathways to Sustainability
Free online course that introduces critical ideas about sustainability, including access to and use of ‘nature’ and ‘natural resources’.
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On the Promise of the Commons
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.