Communes and Other Mobile Commons

The article is the introduction to special issue of Theoretical Practice which dedicated “the communes and other mobile commons”. editors explain how we could conceptualize various attempts create in terms commons commoning. Since exemplary case Paris Commune many social movements – urban, rural, indigenous, feminist, or migrant experimented with as alternatives state capitalism redefined this way meaning spatial practices, work labor movement. Against assumption that commune a necessary localized sedentary political form, authors who contributed propose grasp it from perspective subversive mobilities: kinetic entities. presents common ground on these proposals meet each come into dialogue. Various models described here communal, insurgent, liminal, temporary, latent, care, fugitive, maroon, black, undercommons, uncommons, more testify recent mobility turn theories commons.