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

通过在伦敦和巴黎的两个地方项目的深入人种学研究，我的博士研究提供了一个独特的和创新的研究集体实践的情感维度，可以培养伦理社会生态关系。我展示了如何发展集体处理情绪和影响的能力，将它们整合到变革性的社会实践中，从而在社区和组织内创造更多的能力和能量，努力创造更具社会和环境弹性和公正的社会。我在2014-15年提出了我的博士研究计划，灵感来自2008年金融危机后欧洲城市掀起的一波以地点为基础的集体行动。亲眼目睹和经历经济、社会和环境危机相互交织的不均衡影响，导致人们围绕在那之前更多地是全球正义运动关注的问题而组织起来。在公地概念的启发下，以地点为基础的项目应运而生--作为组织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--作为不分离对环境的关怀和解决社会问题的做法(Kirwan，Dawney，&Brigstocke，2015；PLAC，2017)。在城市，已经致力于社会政策相关问题的团体，如排斥、住房、城市复兴、环境正义、性别暴力或殖民主义，已经开始将社区作为一种将想法转化为实际做法的方式。近十年后，这种做法的相关性变得更加明显：新冠肺炎大流行和日益增长的生活成本危机只突出了制定将人与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(英国科学院，2022年)，不公正的城市改造计划造成的社会结构的丧失，以及城市中更公平地获得绿地(法律，2023年)。我的作品借鉴了女权主义学术，呼吁“与麻烦同在”，并形成“意想不到的合作和组合”(哈拉韦，2016，第4页)，以滋养在一个不平等共享的星球上以道德和可持续的方式生活。我把重点放在共同所暗示的困难和尴尬的关系上--也包括非人类身体的关系。我的博士研究发现，渗透到当代城市的潜在暴力或令人衰弱的感觉，如不适或紧迫感，如何通过集体实践来转化。当被视为共同的观念而不仅仅是个人的情感时，这种感觉可以导致不回避困难关系的关怀实践。这关系到在社区和组织内部发展应对当前和未来社会和环境突发事件的能力，并说明了我的工作与社会政策的相关性。我的方法还导致我发展了“具体环境”的概念，并确定了它们的五个关键特征--城市狂野、紧缩、裂缝、炼金术和地方性--作为探索共同实践与更广泛的社会政治背景之间联系的一种方式。这种团契将使我能够将这一独一无二的独特概念作为一个框架，将可以在社区和组织中发展的实际实践与相关的社会政策领域(环境、住房、社会基础设施、文化权利、公正的社会生态转型)联系起来。为此，我会写一本关于“在具体环境中通勤”的专著，主持两个参与研讨会，制作一个由五部分组成的播客，并参加一个国际会议。这些活动将使我能够巩固我的博士研究，加强和扩大我的网络，以确保我的工作产生有意义的影响，并为编写一份进一步参与研究的资助提案创造富有成效的条件。

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.