Cultivating care in concrete environments:learning from urban commoning projects.

在具体环境中培养关怀：从城市共享项目中学习。

• 批准号: ES/Y008235/1
• 负责人: Elona Hoover
• 金额: $ 12.98万
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY008235%2F1
• 关键词: Cultivating; care; concrete; environments; learning

Through in-depth ethnographic research with two place-based projects in London and Paris, my doctoral research provides a unique and innovative study of the affective dimensions of collective practicesthat can cultivate ethical socio-ecological relations. I show how developing the ability to collectively work with emotions and affects, integrating them into transformative social practices, can result in creating more capacities and energy within communities and organisations working towards creating more socially and environmentally resilient and just societies. I developed my doctoral research proposal in 2014-15, inspired by a wave of place-based collective action in European cities following the 2008 financial crisis. Witnessing and experiencing the uneven effects of intertwined economic, social, and environmental crises 'closer to home' led to people to organize around concerns that haduntil then been more the concern of global justice movements. Place-based projects emerged, inspired by notions of commons- as ways of organising againstthe exploitation of people and land -and emerging inter-disciplinary scholarship on commoning - as practices that do not separate caring for the environment and tackling social issues (Kirwan, Dawney, &Brigstocke, 2015; PlanC, 2017). In cities, groups already working on social policy-related issues such asexclusion, housing, urban rehabilitation, environmental justice, gender violence,or coloniality, have taken up commoning as a way of transforming ideas into actual practices. Nearly a decade later, the relevance of such practices is all the more evident: The Covid-19 pandemic and a growing cost of living crisis have only highlighted the importance of developing social policies that connect human and environmental health (Carlson et al., 2022), that address deepening spatial inequalities (British Academy, 2022), the loss of social fabric created by unjust urban rehabilitation programmes, as well as more equitable access to green spaces in cities (Law, 2023). My work draws on feminist scholarshipthat calls for "staying with the trouble"and forming "unexpected collaborations and combinations" (Haraway, 2016, p.4) to nourish ethical and sustainable ways of living on an unevenly shared planet. I focus on the difficult and awkward relations that commoning implies - relations that also include non-human bodies. My doctoral research identified how potentially violent or debilitating feelingsthat permeate contemporary cities, such as discomfort or urgency, can be transformed through collective practices. When experienced as common notions rather than solely individual emotions, such feelings can lead to practices of care that don't shy away from difficult relations. This matters in terms of developing the capabilities within communities and organisations to respond to present and future social and environmental emergencies and speaks to the relevance of my work for social policy.My approach also led me to develop the notion of 'concrete environments' andidentify their five key characteristics - urban wild, austerity, cracks, alchemy, and earthbound - as a way of exploring the link between commoning practices and broader socio-political contexts.This fellowship will allow me to put thisoriginal and distinctive conceptualisation to work as a framework for connectingactual practices that can be developed in communities and organisations with relatedsocial policy areas (environment, housing, social infrastructures, cultural rights, just socio-ecological transitions). I will do this bywriting a monograph on 'commoning in concrete environments', facilitatingtwoengagement workshops, producing a five-part podcast, and attending an international conference. These activities will allow me to consolidate my doctoral research, strengthen and extend my networks to ensure my work has meaningful impact, and create fruitful conditions for writinga funding proposal for further engaged research.

通过在伦敦和巴黎的两个地方项目进行深入的人种学研究，我的博士研究为集体实践的情感维度提供了独特且创新的研究，可以培养道德的社会生态关系。我展示了如何发展集体处理情绪和情感的能力，将其融入变革性的社会实践，可以在社区和组织内创造更多的能力和能量，从而致力于创建更具社会和环境弹性和公正的社会。受到 2008 年金融危机后欧洲城市掀起的地方性集体行动浪潮的启发，我在 2014-15 年制定了博士研究计划。目睹和经历了“离家较近”的相互交织的经济、社会和环境危机的不平衡影响，导致人们围绕一些问题组织起来，而在此之前，这些问题更多地是全球正义运动所关注的问题。基于地方的项目应运而生，其灵感来自于公地概念——作为组织起来反对对人和土地的剥削的方式——以及新兴的关于公地的跨学科学术——作为不将关心环境和解决社会问题分开的实践（Kirwan, Dawney, &Brigstocke, 2015; PlanC, 2017）。在城市中，已经致力于解决社会政策相关问题（例如排斥、住房、城市复兴、环境正义、性别暴力或殖民主义）的团体已将共同化作为将想法转化为实际实践的一种方式。近十年后，此类做法的相关性变得更加明显：Covid-19大流行和日益严重的生活成本危机凸显了制定将人类和环境健康联系起来的社会政策的重要性（Carlson等人，2022年），解决日益加深的空间不平等问题（英国学院，2022年）、不公正的城市复兴计划造成的社会结构丧失以及更公平地获得资源 城市绿地（2023 年法律）。我的作品借鉴了女权主义学术，呼吁“与麻烦共存”并形成“意想不到的合作和组合”（Haraway，2016，第4页），以在一个不平衡的共享星球上培育道德和可持续的生活方式。我关注的是共同性所暗示的困难和尴尬的关系——也包括非人类身体的关系。我的博士研究发现，当代城市中弥漫着潜在的暴力或令人衰弱的感觉，例如不适或紧迫感，可以通过集体实践来改变。当这种感受被视为普遍观念而不仅仅是个人情感时，就会导致不回避困难关系的护理实践。这对于发展社区和组织内部应对当前和未来社会和环境紧急情况的能力至关重要，并说明了我的工作与社会政策的相关性。我的方法还引导我发展了“具体环境”的概念，并确定了它们的五个关键特征——城市狂野、简朴、裂缝、炼金术和地球——作为探索共同实践和更广泛的社会政治背景之间联系的一种方式。 研究金将使我能够将这一原创且独特的概念化作为一个框架，将社区和组织中可以开发的实际做法与相关的社会政策领域（环境、住房、社会基础设施、文化权利、社会生态转型）联系起来。为此，我将撰写一本关于“具体环境中的共同点”的专着，举办两次参与研讨会，制作一个由五部分组成的播客，并参加一次国际会议。这些活动将使我能够巩固我的博士研究，加强和扩展我的网络，以确保我的工作产生有意义的影响，并为撰写进一步参与研究的资助提案创造富有成果的条件。