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- Convenors:
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Léa Lacan
(University of Cologne)
Michael Bollig (University of Cologne)
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- Format:
- Workshop
Short Abstract:
This workshop aims to rethink commoning as a multispecies undertaking. It examines multispecies communities in community-based conservation and discusses how commoning can be meaningfully extended to include nonhumans and what this implies for multispecies politics and environmental justice.
Long Abstract:
Commoning has habitually been analyzed as the communal management of natural resources by humans. Multispecies studies, however, have highlighted that natural environments and nonhuman animals and plants are not mere resources but beings with agency, that share and co-constitute human lives. With this background in mind, this workshop explores what kinds of multispecies communities emerge from community-based conservation initiatives and to what extent they redefine commoning as a multispecies undertaking.
The workshop proposes to collect case studies of community-based conservation and examine the multispecies communities that emerge from such cases. By paying particular attention to how humans and nonhumans share space, resources and lives in community-based conservation settings – i.e. how commoning emerges across species boundaries – it questions: how is “community” being (re)defined in community-based conservation initiatives, and what changes if nonhuman species are included in the conceptualization of the commons? How is commoning extended to include nonhumans as actors capable of commoning? Moreover, this workshop is interested in what lessons can be drawn from community-based conservation for governing multispecies communities. Linking up to questions of multispecies politics and democracy, the workshop will consider how rights, institutions and governance are reinvented in community-based conservation to include not only humans but also nonhumans. It asks how we should think about justice if commoning includes nonhuman actors by reflecting which humans and nonhumans get a voice and rights and which ones are left behind. The workshop intends to include cases from around the globe to ensure a diversity of perspectives.