Cultivating Commoners: Infrastructures and Subjectivities for a Postcapitalist Counter-City

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aut.relation.articlenumber104635
aut.relation.endpage104635
aut.relation.journalCities
aut.relation.startpage104635
aut.relation.volume143
dc.contributor.authorDombroski, K
dc.contributor.authorConradson, D
dc.contributor.authorDiprose, G
dc.contributor.authorHealy, S
dc.contributor.authorYates, A
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-21T22:03:43Z
dc.date.available2023-11-21T22:03:43Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-01
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, including the land and garden and its many species and ecological systems, the food system more generally, the wider community and their co-workers. Such transformations were both individual and collective, having more in common with the collective caring subject homines curans than the autonomous, rational work-ready subject of homo economicus. Using postcapitalist theory on commons, commoning and subjectivity, we argue that these socio-affective encounters with more-than-human commons enabled collective, caring commoner subjectivities to emerge and to be cultivated through collective care in place. We suggest that the commons can be thought of as an infrastructure of care for the counter-city, providing the conditions for the emergence and cultivation of collective caring urban subjects.
dc.identifier.citationCities, ISSN: 0264-2751 (Print), Elsevier BV, 143, 104635-104635. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104635
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cities.2023.104635
dc.identifier.issn0264-2751
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/16977
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427512300447X
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by nc-nd/4.0/).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject4406 Human Geography
dc.subject4410 Sociology
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.subjectClinical Research
dc.subject1205 Urban and Regional Planning
dc.subject1604 Human Geography
dc.subjectUrban & Regional Planning
dc.subject3304 Urban and regional planning
dc.subject4406 Human geography
dc.subject4407 Policy and administration
dc.titleCultivating Commoners: Infrastructures and Subjectivities for a Postcapitalist Counter-City
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.elements-id528161
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