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Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Against, Within, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Against, Within, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

Fortier, Craig

Paperback

Series: Semaphore, Book 14

General Political ScienceIndigenous StudiesSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1894037979
ISBN13: 9781894037976
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Pub
Published: Feb 1 2018
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 6.80
Language: English
Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for the commons within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons interrogates a very important debatethat took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim the commons on stolen land. Travelling back in history to show the ways in which radical left movements have often either erased or come into clear conflict with Indigenous practices of sovereignty and self-determination--all in the name of the struggle for the commons, the book argues that there are multiple commons or conceptualizations of how land, relationships, and resources are shared, produced, consumed, and distributed in any given society. As opposed to the liberal politics of recognition, a political practice of unsettling and a recognition of the incommensurability of political goals that claim access to space/territory on stolen land is put forward as a more desirable way forward.

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