Commoning ecologies

Part of a series of open calls, Commoning ecologies invites interventions and reflections from the streets, fields, factories and other sites and (microbial) dimensions of struggles.

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Commoning ecologies | Submission Guidelines

In recent years, thinking on commons and commoning has expanded beyond human-centred perspectives to encompass interconnected ecologies and ‘more-than-human’ agency and relationality within ecological and social systems at different spatial and time scales. The recognition of ecological and more-than-human commons can help to de-centre human perspectives, destabilise anthropocentric ontologies, challenge false binaries that conceptually separate people from the rest of nature and subvert conventional hierarchical and property-based notions of resources, ownership, stewardship, and governance. It has the potential to open up new entry-points for understanding and politicising crises, ruptures and hauntings of the so-called ‘Anthropocene’ and can broaden the scope of possibilities for imagining life-beyond crisis and enacting new natures and abundant futures.

This special section of The Commoner: A Web Journal for Other Values invites contributions and expressions of interest that explore the methods, practice, potential and horizons of ecological and ‘more-than-human’ commoning. Contributions might explore, but are not limited to, for example

• more-than-human entanglements or multi-species agency within shared environments;
• how diverse species negotiate and co-create common space;
• affective and embodied experiences of ecological kinship;
• challenges, conflicts and ethical dimensions of commoning beyond-the-human;
• situated experiences, dynamics and understandings of ecological crisis or forms of environmental change related to climate, biodiversity or landscape conditions, urban or rural;
• implications of ecological or more-than-human commoning for relationships among people, technology and the more-than human;
• value production, socio-ecological reproduction, labours of care and/ or (re)generation in ecological commons;
• implications and lessons for contested models of environmental conservation, remediation and repair; or diverse cultural, class-based and indigenous perspectives on more-than-human commons, their relationality and experiences of change.