Deadline: December 18, 2022
Contact: Vera S. Candiani, Princeton University
Email: candiani@princeton.edu

Call for Papers for AESS 2023: Reclaiming the Commons – a joint event with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).

This panel will explore how European colonization in the Americas as a whole transmitted Old World forms of commoning on diverse environments (land, water, woodlands, marshlands) to this continent during early modernity and how these commons as places and commoning as practices persisted or became extinct. The period under consideration will be the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. The panel will welcome papers from any discipline on how collective indigenous land and resource use dovetailed or conflicted with European practices. The overall aim is to produce a better understanding of how European plebeians, Amerindians, and the different models of colonization interacted. Vera Candiani’s paper focuses on commons in Spanish colonization. Especially welcome are papers dealing with Portuguese, French, and English forms of commoning in context of the respective colonial models, and papers dealing with how indigenous and European modalities about commons and commoning interacted in any context.

Submit proposals of 300 words or less to candiani@princeton.edu by December 18, 2022.

Posted on October 11, 2022