Deep Commons : Cultivating Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Beyond Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racism, and the State.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

York, Matt.

Series:

SUNY Series in Critical Political Science Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commons.

Solidarity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Brings together activists and scholars from across the world to coimagine and cultivate ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and the state.Recent years have witnessed an organized global backlash of authoritarian politics with a resurgence of xenophobic nationalisms, colonialism, racism, anti-feminist movements.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Locating the Deep Commons

1. Practicing Revolutionary Love: Reflections on Activist Ethics of Care

Love as Action

Love as Empathy

Love as Trust

Love as Daily Care

Love as Friendship

Love as Healing

Love as Shared Struggle

Love as Collective Survival

2. Grounded Utopias and the Deep Commons

3. Communal Care in North-East Syria and Chiapas: Cocreating Alternative Economy and Justice Systems

North-East Syria: Building a Cooperative Economy

Women's Cooperative Economy in North-East Syria

A Solidarity Economy in Chiapas

A Community-Based Justice System in North-East Syria

Women and Justice in North-East Syria

Courts and Prisons in North-East Syria

The Zapatista Autonomous Justice System

Justice and Punishment as a Communal Affair

Women and Justice in Chiapas

Conclusion: Another World is Is Possible

4. Toward Grassroots Autonomy and Research Accompliceship: Building Solidarity with the Maya Struggle of Southern Belize

Looking Beyond Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racism, and the State

The Historical and Contemporary Context and Chapter Outline

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge(s), Environmental Relations, and Resistance

Maya Realities of Belize: Confronting Colonialism's Lasting Legacies

A Tradition of Grassroots Struggle for Self-Determination

Gender Justice, Social Reproduction, and the Problem of Patriarchy

Confronting Research Exploitation and Extraction: Community Perspectives on Collaboration

The Role of Participatory Research: Politics, Pitfalls, and Ethical Dilemmas

Being Accountable to Social Movements and Struggle: An Appeal to Accompliceship

Conclusion: A Critical Reflection on Academia and Movement-Relevant Research.

5. Everyday Utopias and Urban Feminist Justice: Political Resignifying of Public Space in Madrid

Embodied Feminist Research

Madrid's Everyday Utopias

Resistance to the Ley Mordaza

Fieldwork: Searching for Everyday Utopias in Madrid

The Prosperidad People's School

Las Domingueras

The Magdalena Anarchist Center

Conclusion: The Power of Everyday Utopias

6. Veiled Intimacies: The Power of Women's Affect in Building the Kurdish Movement

Hevaltî and the Role of Affect in Political Struggle

Fetishization, Victimization, and Criminalization: Kurdish Women Under Western Eyes

Women in the Early Years of the Kurdish Movement

From the PKK to the YPJ

Unveiling Intimacies: Jiyan's Story (2017)

Fostering Affect, Empowering Women

Women's Multifaceted Activism in Rojava

Conclusion

7. What Might a Radical Childcare Politics Look Like? Making Kin Despite Schooling, Toward Community-Integrated Learning and Care, Across the Divisions of Cyprus

A Spell: From Practice to Theory

The Context in Words from My Heart

From Theory to Practice: Toward Community-Integrated, Intergenerational, Arts-Based, and Nature-Focused Learning

On Radical Accompanying, Learning, and Care Commoning Beyond Schooling

"Don't take the children out of the room": Community-Integrated Learning and Care and Childcare Commoning as the Reintegration of Being Together in Celebration

Toward a Rewilding: Going to Famagusta with Silvia Federici, Luiz Guilherme Vergara, and Richard M. Stallman

8. Empowering Communities and Challenging Capitalism: The Communal Aspect of the Justice Mechanism in the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Kurdish Freedom Movement: Commoning a Revolution

Researching the Communal Aspects of Justice

A Path Toward Community Empowerment: Justice, Solidarity, and a Challenge to Capitalism.

The Communal Nature of the Dispute Resolution Process

From Dispute Resolution to Collective Care and Solidarity

A Defensive Approach to Dispute Resolution

Commoning Justice for Women: KWM's Autonomous and Distinct Justice Revolution

9. Invoking Love and Disgust: Promoting Multispecies Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Through a Praxis of Total Liberation

Channeling Love and Disgust

Total Liberation?

Total Liberation: Inspiring New Imaginaries and Extending Spheres of Freedom and Liberation

Total Liberation Activism: Means and Ends

Conclusions

10. Future Ancestors: On How to Increase External Intimacy

The Baby Mitochondrion: Your Body is the Node

The Activist Platypus: We Come from Many Places

A Tree Made of Salmonids: Circular Virtue

Sister Big Mac: Ancestral Alterity

Blue Fire in the Desert: Ancestors of the Future

11. A Rehumanization Revolution: Restoring the Deep Commons

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: York, Matt Deep Commons

ISBN:

9798855808308

OCLC:

1597389354