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How to common - Foreword for Utrecht Meent Het #2
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Arisan revisited: Notes on precariousness
Arisan is a popular community-based savings association in Indonesia. Amid various ways of saving and credit facilitated by modern banking platforms, arisan proves to be a sustaining mechanism for accumulating ...
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“The economy is something we do, not just something that does things to us.”
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Resisting Enclosure through Creative Commoning in Kanaleneiland - Gentrifying the Commons // Commoning Gentrification
One week after I arrived in Utrecht I found myself lost, pedaling through Kanaleneiland in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to find a newly opened art commons in the area. Having ... -
Squatting, Alternative Spaces, and Anti-capitalist Commons - A Socio-Spatial response to the Housing Crisis in Utrecht
There is a housing crisis in Utrecht. Characterized as chronically unaffordable, disclosed by a critical shortage of rooms, renting a room in a shared box rarely comes with a communal ... -
Foreword - Utrecht Meent Het #1
(Un)usual Business was conceived as a participatory action research group—simply, a “study” group following Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s idea of undercommons as a mode of antagonistic learning that embraces ...
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Waarom de participatiesamenleving een conservatief project is
Linkse critici van de participatiesamenleving doen het af als een overwegend liberale visie op de maatschappij, waar de VVD zich meer in zou kunnen herkennen dan de PvdA. Een analyse ...
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Here come the commons - A Critical Evaluation of the Commons Paradigm
During the last two decades, the concept of commons has come to some prominence in the economic, ecological, and political sciences. While I feel the commons is an interesting subject ... -
The Evitable Loss of Our Commons
The rise of western market economies in the last two to three centuries went hand in hand with the destruction of the “commons”—the collective ownership and management by local users ... -
“No commons without community. No commons without economy.”
Maria Mies (The Subsistence Perspective, 1999) -
No Such Thing as Big Society - The commons, commonplaces, commonalism
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(Un)sustainable Development
When I tell people that my field of study is in sustainable development, they look at me in a sort of admiring way. They seem to think that it holds ... -
Commons that Care - Feminist Interventions in the Construction of the Commons
Feminist and anti-capitalist activists and scholars growingly call for alternative visions of society and new ways of living and relating. It is in this context that the commons have become ... -
Community with Humans or Commoning with Nature
I have been taking part in a working group set up by Casco—Office for Art, Design and Theory to do research on the subject of local commons. When we started ... -
Naar een politiek voorbij de dualiteit van staat en markt
Op weg van Breukelen naar de Vinkeveense plassen, met de schaatsen onder de arm, liep ik met mijn vader langs zwembad de Meent. De weg die ons daar naartoe bracht, ...
