The paper reflects on the static dichotomy between war and peace through the lens of urban commons. War is the everyday product of scarce resources and rights. It is artificially constructed by means of a specific distributive rationality based on the enclosure of commons as well as the racial and patriarchal dispossession of bodies. The result is an economic and ideological model that determines forms of competition and conflict, sometimes violent, to which correspond policies of social pacification, silencing and invisibilization of subaltern subjects in urban contexts. The category of the commons, starting from Neo-Institutionalist approaches that study the conditions for their regeneration, questions resource scarcity as the univocal principle of economic organization of reality. This allows the concept of peace to be transposed into an idea of conflict tending to overcome the principle of scarcity. Commons can then be read as a form of eco-socio-spatial claim that tends toward an idea of peace as synonymous with justice. The contribution thus aims to initiate a response to the following research questions: are commons capable of reproducing places of peace and abundance, that is, of eco-socio-spatial justice, through the making and unmaking of communities immune to the reproduction of gender, race, and class inequalities? Or do these concur instead in replicating forms of eco-socio-spatial pacification? At the intersection of peace and conflict, public and private, distinguishing conflict from violence, is it possible to trigger nonviolent conflict through the reproductive practice s of urban commons? On these premises, this paper adopts a transfeminist perspective focused on practices of depatriarchalization within commons, beginning within the authors’ embodied experience as research-activists of l'Asilo in Naples. Specific attention is paid to processes of deconstruction of neoliberal, patriarchal and predatory subjects through practices oriented toward the emergence of a subjectivity liberated from a war economy.
Commons as means of peace or pacification? A transfeminist perspective / DEL GIUDICE, Gaetana; DE TULLIO, MARIA FRANCESCA; Avverso, Giovanni; Buonanno, Riccardo; Moïse, Marie. - (2023). (Intervento presentato al convegno AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures” (TG PSUC), “Urban Conflicts and Peace: Everyday Politics of Commons” tenutosi a Napoli nel 5 - 6 October).
Commons as means of peace or pacification? A transfeminist perspective
Gaetana Del Giudice
;Maria Francesca De Tullio
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2023
Abstract
The paper reflects on the static dichotomy between war and peace through the lens of urban commons. War is the everyday product of scarce resources and rights. It is artificially constructed by means of a specific distributive rationality based on the enclosure of commons as well as the racial and patriarchal dispossession of bodies. The result is an economic and ideological model that determines forms of competition and conflict, sometimes violent, to which correspond policies of social pacification, silencing and invisibilization of subaltern subjects in urban contexts. The category of the commons, starting from Neo-Institutionalist approaches that study the conditions for their regeneration, questions resource scarcity as the univocal principle of economic organization of reality. This allows the concept of peace to be transposed into an idea of conflict tending to overcome the principle of scarcity. Commons can then be read as a form of eco-socio-spatial claim that tends toward an idea of peace as synonymous with justice. The contribution thus aims to initiate a response to the following research questions: are commons capable of reproducing places of peace and abundance, that is, of eco-socio-spatial justice, through the making and unmaking of communities immune to the reproduction of gender, race, and class inequalities? Or do these concur instead in replicating forms of eco-socio-spatial pacification? At the intersection of peace and conflict, public and private, distinguishing conflict from violence, is it possible to trigger nonviolent conflict through the reproductive practice s of urban commons? On these premises, this paper adopts a transfeminist perspective focused on practices of depatriarchalization within commons, beginning within the authors’ embodied experience as research-activists of l'Asilo in Naples. Specific attention is paid to processes of deconstruction of neoliberal, patriarchal and predatory subjects through practices oriented toward the emergence of a subjectivity liberated from a war economy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
