On Commoning as Labor for Socioecological Transformation
25 November 2024
Commoning is increasingly discussed as an important element of post-capitalist socioecological transformation. Capitalist value logics have been central drivers of environmental destruction and climate change, placing both “traditional” and “new” commons at risk of being enclosed or co-opted. At the same time, commons are being re-created by a host of commoning initiatives that rely on them for social reproduction and that prefigure a society where value practices of care, sharing, reciprocity, and solidarity shape social relations, including relations to non-human nature.
In this online Commoning Dialogue, Gustavo García-López (Universidade de Coimbra) will speak about his research on environmental justice struggles in Puerto Rico and discuss with Katharina Bodirsky (Universität Konstanz) the potential - as well as potential limits - of the labor of commoning for (post-capitalist) socioecological transformation.
Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices", Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA).