ei14/2017 ‘The Commoner» Sivia Federici — Feminism And the Poltics ofthe Commons * Home © Journal The Commoner N, 15 ~ Winter 2012 Reviews Letters Other articles in common All Posts About wre Work and the Commons Silvia Federici — Feminism And the Politics of the Commons Posted on January 24th, 2011 by admin At least since the Zapatistas took over the z6calo in San Cristobal de las Casas on December 31, 1993 to protest legislation dissolving the ejidal lands of Mexico, the concept of ‘the commons’ has been gaining popularity among the radical left, internationally and in the U.S., appearing as a basis for convergence among anarchists, Marxists, socialists, ecologists, and eco-feminists, There are important reasons why this apparently archaic idea has come to the center of political discussion in contemporary social movements. Two in particular stand out. On one side is the demise of the statist model of revolution that for decades had sapped the efforts of radical movements to build an alternative to capitalism. On the other, the neo-liberal attempt to subordinate every form of life and knowledge to the logic of the market has heightened our awareness of the danger of living in a world in which we no longer have access to seas, trees, animals, and our fellow beings except through the cash-nexus. The ‘new enclosures” have also made visible a world of communal properties and relations that many had believed to be extinct or had not valued until threatened with privatization. Ironically, the new enclosures have demonstrated that not only the common has not vanished, but also new forms of social cooperation are constantly being produced, including in areas of life where none previously existed like, for example, the internet. Download full PDF herefederici-feminism-and- the-politics-of-commons.pdf share it These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Saving toMy Library... ‘The Commoner » Sivia Federici — Femins. Tags: Other articles in common // Snapshot itp: commonerorg.uk!?p=113 12ei14/2017 ‘The Commoner» Sivia Federici — Feminism And the Poltics ofthe Commons « The Commoner N, 14 — Winter 2010 ~ Property, Commoning and the Polities of Free Software The Commoner N, 15 — Winter 2012 — Care work and the Commons » + Other articles in common © Mariarosa Dalla Costa - So that Fish May Flop in Vegetable Gardens Biodiversity and health in movements for peasant-based agriculture and artisan fishing, Mariarosa Dalla Costa - The war on Subsistence fariarosa Dalla Costa - The Attack on the Earth Mariarosa Dalla Costa - Workerism, Feminism and Some Efforts of the United Nations Laura Agustin- Sex as Work and Sex Work ‘The Commoner N, 15 - Winter 2012 - Care work and the Commons Silvia F Editor’s blog A report on Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Forum on the commons A new language for the commons oh the times. they are a changing ‘Women in the present condition: Interview with Silvia federici from “Reclamation” God or Marx? Mother Earth, states and commons: reflections on “el cumbre” Water (commons) Fair water umaraga + Reviews ta - Worl Laura Agustin- Sex as Work and Sex Work RSS Syndication + About the Commoner In the beginning there is the doing, the social flow of human interaction and creativity, and the doing is imprisoned by the deed, and the deed wants to dominate the doing and life, and the doing is turned into work, and people into things. Thus the world is crazy, and revolts are also practices of hope. This journal is about living in a world in which the doing is separated from the deed, in which this separation is extended in an increasing numbers of spheres of life, in which the revolt about this separation is ubiquitous, ‘The Commoner: a web journal for other values. Design by diasporas. itp: commonerorg.uk!?p=113 22