Beyond Tragedy: Differential Commoning in a Manufactured Housing Cooperative
Beyond Tragedy: Differential Commoning in a Manufactured Housing Cooperative
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超越悲剧：预制住房合作社中的差异共享
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2016
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Elsa Noterman
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作者：
Elsa Noterman
处于经济边缘地位的人在经济机会减少和公共援助减少的双重危机中左右为难，他们选择分享资源，以抵御对其生计的威胁。在不同的生计关切和主题立场中，管理这些“公地”的过程往往是混乱和矛盾的。不平等倾向于沿着沿着新的和现有的权力线出现。而不是减少这种趋势的“悲剧”被消除，我认为，与不平衡的关系的斗争提供了一个更动态的帐户公地：“差异公地”。本文以一个“制造住房”社区的居民为例，他们组织起来作为一个合作社，以应对驱逐的威胁。我认为，他们的集体化斗争表明，需要一种更有情境的公共概念化，而不是一种在经济理性的僵化或某种想象的共同体的同质性中定义的概念。
Caught between the dual crises of declining economic opportunity and diminishing public assistance, people on the economic margins resist threats to their livelihoods by opting to share resources. The processes involved in managing these “commons” are often messy and paradoxical amid differing livelihood concerns and subject positions. Unevenness tends to emerge along new and existing lines of power. Rather than reducing such tendencies to a “tragedy” to be eliminated, I argue that grappling with uneven relations offers a more dynamic account of commoning: “differential commoning”. This paper takes as its example the residents of a “manufactured housing” community who organized as a cooperative in response to the threat of eviction. Their struggle to collectivize, I suggest, illustrates the need for a more situated conceptualization of commoning, rather than a concept defined within the rigidity of economic rationality or the homogeneity of some imagined community.