Content Type: Ideas
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Talks on Weird Ecology and the Commons
Watch video of two talks by Amber Huff: on weird ecologies, and on commons, enclosure and value struggle.
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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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Season: Strange Natures
A season of creative contributions that engage with ‘the strange’ to open up new ways of seeing and telling stories about crises, ecologies and natures.
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Comic: People Power – Smart Local Energy Systems
A comic about how to involve people in energy systems at a local level, inspired by commons-based approaches.
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To think, feel and see otherwise: a report and a mini-zine from POLLEN23
Some reflections and a mini-zine from the conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) in June 2023.
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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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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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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.