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Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:08 PM<br>
Subject: CFP AAG 2018: Enacting Postcapitalist Futures &
Nurturing Life in Common<br>
To: <a href="mailto:GEOGFEM@lsv.uky.edu" target="_blank">GEOGFEM@lsv.uky.edu</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Call
for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Association
of Geographers</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">AAG 2018 –
New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">The Commons,
Commoning and Co-becomings: Enacting Postcapitalist
Futures and Nurturing Life in Common</b><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Session
Organizers: Ursula Lang (Rhode Island School of Design),
Gustavo Garcia (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio
Piedras), and Neera Singh (University of Toronto)</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">There has
been an explosion of interest in the commons not just as
a viable model for environmental governance, but also as
nurturing grounds for postcapitalist politics. Scholars
working on the commons in common-pool resources theory
in the Ostrom tradition have traditionally focused on
the commons as shared natural resources, highlighting
“rules-in-use” and institutional arrangements. However,
recent work in autonomous Marxist tradition focuses on
the shared commonwealth of humanity and the role of the
commons in nurturing postcapitalist subjectivities,
alternate forms of production and provisioning, and ways
of relating and valuing life in common (Caffentzis and
Federici 2014, Linebaugh 2009, Bollier and Helfrich
2014).</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Geographers
have contributed and responded to growing scholarship
and praxis on the commons, where the commons and
commoning are seen as advancing other-than-capitalist
community economies (Gibson-Graham, 2006); counter
hegemonic common senses (Garcia Lopez et al 2017);
challenging enclosure and accumulation by dispossession
(Jeffrey et al 2012, Hodkinson 2012, Paudel 2016,); as
nurturing grounds for collective subjectivity (Singh,
2017); and as creation of new urban commons and hybrid
forms of governance (Chatterton 2010, Baviskar and
Gidwani 2011, Eizenberg 2012, Lang 2014, Turner 2016).
We are especially drawn to scholarship that views the
commons and commoning as practices for fostering
postcapitalist subjectivity and life in common.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">In this
session, we invite empirical and conceptual papers that
examine the role of the commons in fostering
other-than-capitalist ways of being and relating to the
more-than-human world – of nurturing subjectivities of
‘being-in-common’ with the rest of the world. We seek to
connect lived practices with emerging academic attention
on affective and relational ecologies of living and
being in common.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Some possible
themes include:</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">1. The
commons as nurturing grounds of subjectivity.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">2. The
commons as a source of sustaining life through relations
of care and cultivation.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">3. Different
conceptions of human in the Anthropocene. How do ways of
being in common and relating to the commons recognize or
enable different ways of being human to emerge and
flourish? (e.g. the Anthropo-not-seen, la Cadena)</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">4. What work
do commons do – in the world, on commoners, on
capacities for co-becomings?</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">5. Rhythms
and temporalities of commons. How might new commons
emerge, and how are commons sustained?</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">6. Struggles
against enclosure of the commons.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">7. What are
the limits of the commons?</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">8. Value and
commoning. How does engagement with the practices of
commoning lead to different ways of conceptualizing
value?</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Please send
abstracts of not more than 250 words by October 10, to
Ursula Lang (</span><a href="mailto:ursula.a.lang@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" target="_blank">ursula.a.lang@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">), Neera Singh (</span><a href="mailto:neera.singh@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" target="_blank">neera.singh@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">), and Gustavo
Garcia Lopez (</span><a href="mailto:garcial.gustavo@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" target="_blank">garcial.gustavo@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">). We will let
participants know by October 15, and you will need to
submit an AAG pin to us by October 20.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">References</b><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Baviskar and
Gidwani (2011) Urban Commons. Economic and Political
Weekly 46(50)</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Bollier and
Helfrich (2014) Patterns of Commoning. The Commons
Strategies Group.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Chatterton
(2010) Seeking the urban common: Furthering the debate
on spatial justice. City 14: 6, 625-628</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Eizenberg
(2012) Actually existing commons: Three moments of space
of community gardens in New York City. Antipode
44(3):764-782</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Caffentzis
& Federici (2014) Commons against and beyond
capitalism. Community Development Journal, 49(suppl 1),
i92-i105.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">García López,
Velicu, & D’Alisa (2017) Performing
Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses: Rearticulating
Democracy, Community and Forests in Puerto Rico.
Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1-20.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Gibson-Graham
JK (2006) A Postcapitalist Politics. Univ of MN Press.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Jeffrey,
McFarlane, Vasudevan (2012) Rethinking Enclosure: Space,
Subjectivity and the Commons. Antipode 44(4):1247-1267</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Lang (2014)
The common life of yards. Urban Geography 35(6):852-869</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Linebaugh
(2009) The Magna Carta Manifesto. Univ of CA Press.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Paudel (2016)
Re-inventing the commons: community forestry as
accumulation without dispossession in Nepal. Journal of
Peasant Studies. 43(5): 989-1009</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Singh (2017)
Becoming a commoner: The commons as site for affective
socio-nature encounters and co-becomings. Ephemera.
(forthcoming)</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Turner (2016)
Political ecology III: The commons and commoning.
Progress in Human Geography. Aug 26, 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">- - - - </div>
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<div>Dr. Ursula Lang</div>
<div>Assistant Professor in Residence of Political
Ecology & Design Studies</div>
<div>RISD - Rhode Island School of Design</div>
<div><a href="mailto:ulang@risd.edu" target="_blank">ulang@risd.edu</a></div>
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