*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES OF COMMONING*
*Panel organized for American Anthropological Association Annual
Conference, *Washington, DC, November 29 - December 3, 2017.
This panel aims to bring into conversation ethnographic case studies on
forms of urban living created through acts of commoning –spaces imagined
and lived as urban commons, belonging to no one and everyone.
We aim to reflect upon urban inhabitants’ commoning practices that produce
and reproduce life in the city for the sake of cultivating a new ethos to
sustain livelihoods and affirm communal instincts beyond motivations of
profit, competition, and wealth spared for individual well-being at the
expense of others. We would like to explore everyday cultures of commoning
that rely on alternative socio-spatial relations. It is our aim to take a
close look at urban inhabitants’ quotidian practices, be they work,
reproductive labor, or leisure and festivity, that make our spaces in
common despite (and in the midst of) capitalist social relationships.
Everyday acts of commoning materialize within the cracks of the capitalist
system and potentially create new life-forms. We treasure such practices of
commoning, for they not only reveal urban inhabitants’ capacity to make the
city but they also imply a radical will to remake ourselves and our lives
by way of reorganizing our everyday lives, living spaces, redefining forms
of production and labor, developing new means of livelihood, and in turn
reminding us every day that we all inhabit a common life-world.
We would like to highlight both achievements and drawbacks. We dwell on the
emancipatory potentials of commoning practices, as well as the incomplete
or conflicting processes and incompatibilities they inhabit. We focus on
cases of urban commoning while keeping an eye on their continuous
enclosures.
What are some of the ways in which we can imagine and sustain our ongoing
everyday lives as a locus of commoning? What kinds of sensibilities and
perspectives (for instance a feminist perspective) can we incorporate into
our understanding of urban commons?
This panel aims to discuss these questions by bringing together
ethnographic case studies from different urban contexts, to discuss
alternative forms of production, consumption, exchange, and sociality, all
relying on practices of commoning as their major resource.
We are calling for empirically informed papers that offer refreshing
perspectives on the following:
* Precarity and resistance
* Solidarity economies
* Commoning arts & culture in the city
* Commoning and law
* Commoning and affective labor in the city
* Experiences of commoning urban property
* Sustainable urban life
Please send abstracts (of 250 words) and bios (of 200 words) by April 3rd to
Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç ([log in to unmask]) and Derya Özkan (
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*Guldem Baykal Buyuksarac*
Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology
Departmental Erasmus Coordinator
Istanbul University / Faculty of Letters
Department of Anthropology
Ordu Cad. No. 196 Beyazit 34459 Istanbul
+90 212 440 0000 (15966)
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