Space, Power and the Commons: The struggle for alternative futures

Space, Power and the Commons- Front Cover
Space, Power and the Commons
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
	Figures
	Table
Contributors
Introduction: The promise of the commons
	Environmental commons
	Urban commons
	Legal commons
	The Marxist commons
	An entangled commoning
	An agenda for commons research – themes and tensions
	An expanded commons: intangible, more-than-human and temporal commons
	The commons and their capture
	Notes
	References
Part I: Materialising the commons
Chapter 1: Building the commons in eco-communities
	Introduction
	Advocating community living
	Making the commons
	Benefits of sharing
	Houses are smaller, but there is more space
	Home extends beyond the house
	Space for risk taking
	Diversifying the commons
	Eco-living requires time, patience, and compromise
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 2: A politics of the common: Revisiting the late nineteenth-century Open Spaces movement through Rancière’s aesthetic lens
	Introduction
	The Commons Preservation Society: Brokers of the public good?
	Common sensibilities
	Common-wealth
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: A spirit of the common: Reimagining ‘the common law’ with Jean-Luc Nancy
	Introduction
	Reimaging the common: community, fraternity and an ontology of the ‘with’
	Reimagining law: abandoned being and being-obligated
	The promise of ‘the common law’
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Part II: Commoning
Chapter 4: The more-than-human commons: From commons to commoning
	The question of the commons
	The care of the commons
	The circulation of the commons
	Enclosure and the manifold commons
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: ‘Where’s the trick?’: Practices of commoning across a reclaimed shop front
	Reclaiming spaces for urban commoning
	‘Approachable’ social centres
	‘Where’s the trick?’
	Commoning off the market
	Conclusion: thresholds of commoning
	Notes
	References
Part III: An expanded commons
Chapter 6: Expanding the subject of planning: Enacting the relational complexities of more-than-human urban common(er)s
	Introduction: what should have a right to the city?
	Urban commons in a more-than-human world
	Urban commons planning, rehashed
	Concluding discussion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Occupy the future
	Occupy the future
	Foreclosing on the temporal commons
	Occupying time
	Representing future generations
	Generous futures
	References
Chapter 8: Imaginaries of a global commons: Memories of violence and social justice
	Introduction
	Learning lessons from atrocity
	Understanding temporalities of violence
	A global community in mourning
	The counterfactual imagination and the quest for redemption
	Hypostatized memories of violence: when the meaning of atrocity becomes myth
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Part IV: The capture of the commons
Chapter 9: The matter of spirituality and the commons
	Introduction: the matter of spirituality
	The spirituality of the commons
	The monster and mystic communalism
	The holy spirit or the commons out of place
	The return of the monster
	Conclusion: the ‘spirit of 45’
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Controlled natures: Disorder and dissensus in the urban park
	Introduction
	Aesthetic commons
	The sociologisation of the aesthetic
	Anti-social aesthetics and the enclosure of shock
	The loss of the commons and the enclosure of experience
	Rancière and aesthetic equality
	Parks revisited
	Conclusion: the park ecology and its aesthetic disruption
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index