Category: The Commons
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My body as food, my food as neighbour
Starting from the ecologies and relationships involved in foraging, Elaina Weber discusses how you might see your food as community, and yourself as ‘future food’.
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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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Naming, unnaming and commons
Names can be used to hurt and heal. What can ‘unnaming’ do for people’s relationships to the other creatures around them?
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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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Film ‘Finite’ documents community resistance against mines
A powerful documentary about people coming together to take action against new mining developments in Germany and the UK.
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Podcast: 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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Video: JT Roane on ‘Dark Agoras’ in Philadelphia
Full video of JT Roane’s talk about Black urban placemaking in twentieth-century Philadelphia.
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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.