Part of a series of open calls, Commoning and the convergence of struggles invites interventions and reflections from the streets, fields, factories and other convergences of struggles.
Commoning and the convergence of struggles
- When we speak of the ‘convergence of struggles’, we refer to the processes that unite movements and struggles despite their differences and geographical distances, fostering synergies and bolstering collective efforts to resist, endure, and envision diverse alternatives.
- What challenges and advantages does convergence present? How do calls for unity differ from the processes of convergence? In what ways can commoning practices facilitate their formation?
- We encourage reflections, essays, artwork, and multimedia contributions that draw from a spectrum of struggles and their commoning practices, and which chart pathways of convergence among movements and struggles, highlighting intersections and synergies concerning critical issues like climate justice, labor rights, land tenure, resource management, the recognition of peasant and indigenous communities, as well as women’s and trans-feminist mobilizations, among others.
Commoning and the convergence of struggles | Submission Guidelines
The Commoner web journal invites contributions that delve into the intersections of commoning practice and the convergence of struggles within and across diverse movements and domains. By ‘convergence of struggles’ we broadly mean those processes that bring movements and struggles together despite differences and distances, in ways that build synergies and enhance their collective power to resist, sustain, and to envision and construct plural alternatives.
This themed section explores questions such as, what are the challenges and benefits of convergence? What are the differences between calls for unity and processes of convergence? How can practices of commoning help in their formation? What types of bridges can be built across diverse movements, between places and spaces of struggle? How do we forge common ground across, for example, questions of work and income on one side and ecology on the other? We invite reflections, essays, artwork, and multimedia contributions that draw inspiration from diverse struggles and their practices of commoning that seek to establish horizons of convergence between movements and struggles, focusing on intersections and synergies across key issues of climate justice, labor, land and resources, recognition of peasant and indigenous people,, women’s and trans-feminist mobilizations, among others.