Virtual panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Organised by Dimitra Gkitsa (University College London), Katerina Genidogan (Leuphana University Lüneburg), and Maria Alexandrescu (University of Sheffield)

The commons has reemerged in the West as a concept and set of practices in struggles against neoliberal practices. However, in non-western contexts, the commons have had a more troubled and sometimes violent history, tied to colonial expansion, racial capitalism, and capitalocenic extractivism. Taking existing, abandoned, ongoing, and future …