Exploring ‘festive commoning’ in radical gatherings in Scotland

Drawing on immersive ethnographic fieldwork at three events in Scotland, all grounded ecological sensibilities and focusing respectively alternative medicine, music reviving seasonal celebrations, this article illuminates aspects of what we call ‘festive commoning’. We ask: how, to extent, were commons ‘against beyond’ capital produced these gatherings? re-read a history resistance festive autonomy light, as continuing struggle against capitalist enclosures time, space, knowledge, being the world. argue that grassroots gatherings can produce commons’ resists such enclosures, including breaking down divisions between self other, human non-human beings. Such processes generate collective joy, enliven radical imagination. Experiencing is not only an aspect pleasure valued some traditions, but also makes another world possible, even if temporary one.