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The Mixed Potential of Salvage Commoning: Crisis and Commoning Practices in Washington, DC and New York City

The Mixed Potential of Salvage Commoning: Crisis and Commoning Practices in Washington, DC and... This paper considers how and to what ends commoning practices can take shape in direct response to the spectres and/or realities of eroding resources (we focus especially on public resources) within iterations of what we term “salvage commoning”. We show how, in such contexts, commoning practices may potentially alleviate but also potentially (re)produce inequities, exclusions, and resource retractions. To illustrate, we draw upon two examples: parent‐teacher organisations in Washington, DC, and block associations in New York City. In both instances, people have cooperatively built new relations, coordinated voluntary labour, and stewarded resources in connection with specific commons (public schools and urban spaces) threatened by disinvestment and crisis. We show how troubling alignments and exclusions can emerge under these conditions, suggesting critical questions about the starkly mixed potential of salvage commoning—especially in the face of ongoing and emerging crises in which such orientations are likely to become increasingly prevalent. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Antipode Wiley

The Mixed Potential of Salvage Commoning: Crisis and Commoning Practices in Washington, DC and New York City

Anderson, Christian M.; Huron, Amanda
Antipode , Volume 55 (4) – Jul 1, 2023
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Wiley
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Antipode © 2023 Antipode Foundation Ltd
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0066-4812
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1467-8330
DOI
10.1111/anti.12788
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Abstract

This paper considers how and to what ends commoning practices can take shape in direct response to the spectres and/or realities of eroding resources (we focus especially on public resources) within iterations of what we term “salvage commoning”. We show how, in such contexts, commoning practices may potentially alleviate but also potentially (re)produce inequities, exclusions, and resource retractions. To illustrate, we draw upon two examples: parent‐teacher organisations in Washington, DC, and block associations in New York City. In both instances, people have cooperatively built new relations, coordinated voluntary labour, and stewarded resources in connection with specific commons (public schools and urban spaces) threatened by disinvestment and crisis. We show how troubling alignments and exclusions can emerge under these conditions, suggesting critical questions about the starkly mixed potential of salvage commoning—especially in the face of ongoing and emerging crises in which such orientations are likely to become increasingly prevalent.

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Antipode – Wiley

Published: Jul 1, 2023

Keywords: block associations; commons and commoning practices; crisis; parent‐teacher organisations; salvage; social reproduction

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