Category: The Commons
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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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Seeing Pastoralism
An online exhibition about pastoralists and their relationship to commons, as they face many different uncertainties.
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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.
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Comic: The Killing Famine
Comic about colonisation, mining and conservation in Madagascar, drawing on the history of enclosures of common grazing lands and forests.
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Comic: Weird Ecologies
Comic about the radical potential of ‘weird ecologies’ to affect people’s views of nature.
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‘Sedentist’ bias and the pastoral commons
Pastoralists are often marginalised from common land and resources, even by policies that claim to help them. Policies are based on a bias towards fixed, formalised land ownership.