Deep Commons: https://www.deepcommons.net/about
Cultivating Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Beyond Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racism, and the State. Matt York and Marina Sitrin eds foreword by Ariel Salleh Deep Commons is a call for rediscovery and renewal - a political paradigm shift from relations of production to 'relations of reproduction'.
Dominant Concept Proposed Alternative
Instrumental policy & data analytics Open, process-oriented politics
Patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mastery Pluriversal futures ("a world where many worlds fit")
Old dualisms
('global versus local', 'is versus ought') Transversal learning energised with hevalti
Fixed blueprints for social formations Engendering a Deep Commons & grounded utopias
Collective commoning for sustainability is both about nature at large, and humans as part of it. That is to say, the anthropocentric lens is replaced by an ecocentric lens. ..More instrumental policy and data analytics drives us ever deeper into the modern cul de sac of 'development'. The key is to replace patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mastery and its old dualisms - 'global versus local', 'is versus ought' - with an open process-oriented politics. True to this existential commitment, Matt York and Marina Sitrin urge us to 'consciously resist the temptation to overly reify and essentialise then abstract yet more fixed blueprints for future social formations'. Rather, the future will be pluriversal, made up of 'a world where many worlds fit' and our transversal learning will be energised with hevalti. If Life-on-Earth is to survive the scarcity of 21st century excess, engendering this Deep Commons and its grounded utopias is an urgent call.