Prefigurative Ecologies

Struggles, Commons and the Terrestrial Condition of Justice

This course explores how contemporary socio-ecological struggles are not only sites of resistance to extractivism, but also spaces where alternative ways of inhabiting the Earth are actively prefigured. Moving across urban contexts and forest territories, it examines how commons, mobilisations and everyday practices reconfigure relationships between humans and non-humans. Bringing together critical political economy and an attention to situated attachments, the course approaches justice as a terrestrial condition, grounded in the material, spatial and relational processes through which worlds are collectively sustained and transformed.