Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

The idea of the commons evokes egalitarian, democratic, utopian notions of shared resources and good governance. But while there have been many attempts to imagine versions of the commons in modernity, the modern commons has often been conceptualized on the back of settler colonial or colonial state formations or organizations (whether left or right). Because it turns on the question of collective land and resource management, re-envisioning …