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

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

There is an implicit (and sometimes explicit) anthropocentrism in many accounts of the commons, understood as a place of shared resources. This panel will ask whether the commons can be reconceptualized, in ecological terms, as a space of multi-species relations. What is the connection between commons and habitat, nonhuman life-worlds, or Umwelten? How might theories and historical examples of commoning practices help us to rethink conflicts over …