- Title
- Commoning as a postcapitalist politics
- Creator
- Gibson-Graham, J. K.; Cameron, Jenny; Healy, Stephen
- Relation
- Multitudes Vol. 70, Issue 1, p. 82-91
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/mult.070.0082
- Publisher
- Association Multitudes
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Today the planet faces a genuine tragedy of the unmanaged “commons” (like air, climate, water). In this article, we explore how the process of commoning offers a politics for the Anthropocene. To reveal the political potential of commoning, however, we need to step outside of the capitalocentric ways that the commons have generally been understood, and that feminist thinkers have denounced as parallel to phallocentrism. We argue that commons can be conceived of as a process—commoning—that is applicable to any form of property, whether private, or state-owned, or open access. We turn to three examples from the past and the present that provide insights into ways of commoning the atmosphere (air quality in an Australian town, the international response to the threat on the ozone layer, the development of domestic solar energy by Australien citizens). We reveal how a politics of commoning has been enacted through assemblages comprised of social movements, technological advances, institutional arrangements and non-human “others.”
- Subject
- commoning; post-capitalism; capitalocentricism; property
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441500
- Identifier
- uon:41446
- Identifier
- ISSN:0292-0107
- Language
- eng
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