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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, climate denialism, and the purposeful undermining of existing democratic systems. In response, Deep Commons invites us to instead cultivate radically different political communities of solidarity and care. Linking ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist, Indigenous, and animal liberation politics intersectionally, activists and scholars from the growing Deep Commons community, representing a diversity of positions between the core and periphery of empire, share concrete examples and grassroots lived experiences of these liberatory psycho-socio-material relations. The book therefore focuses through one key question: How do we do it? How do we cultivate ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and the state?
"We carry a new world here in our hearts, to borrow from Spanish anarchist revolutionary Buenaventura Durutti. In this wonderful collection Matt York and Marina Sitrin have brought together stories, deep from the heart, that illustrate the care, the love, the solidarity from which we are creating this new world, these new worlds, here and now." — David Harvie, coauthor of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities
Matt York is Postdoctoral Researcher in Collective Social Futures at University College Cork, Ireland. He is author of Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons. Marina Sitrin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and We Make Our Own Justice: Global Alternatives to Policing and Prisons.
Foreword
Ariel Salleh
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Locating the Deep Commons
Marina Sitrin and Matt York
1. Practicing Revolutionary Love: Reflections on Activist Ethics of Care
Hillary A. Lazar
2. Grounded Utopias and the Deep Commons
Laurence Davis
3. Communal Care in North-East Syria and Chiapas: Cocreating Alternative Economy and Justice Systems
Anna Rebrii and Emre Sahin
4. Toward Grassroots Autonomy and Research Accompliceship: Building Solidarity with the Maya Struggle of Southern Belize
Filiberto Penados, Levi Gahman, Shelda-Jane Smith, and Cara Mattu
5. Everyday Utopias and Urban Feminist Justice: Political Resignifying of Public Space in Madrid
Sara Pierallini
6. Veiled Intimacies: The Power of Women's Affect in Building the Kurdish Movement Ariella Patchen
7. What Might a Radical Childcare Politics Look Like? Making Kin Despite Schooling, Toward Community-Integrated Learning and Care, Across the Divisions of Cyprus
Chrystalleni Loizidou
8. Empowering Communities and Challenging Capitalism: The Communal Aspect of the Justice Mechanism in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Yeter Tan
9. Invoking Love and Disgust: Promoting Multispecies Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Through a Praxis of Total Liberation
Richard J. White
10. Future Ancestors: On How to Increase External Intimacy
Beatriz Alejandra Paz Jiménez
11. A Rehumanization Revolution: Restoring the Deep Commons
John P. Clark
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index