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Abstract: In recent years, educational theory has largely focused on conceptualizing and thinking through what an educational politics of the commons might look like. A politics of the commons remains attractive to those who want to find an educational exit point from the aggressive and violent nature of capitalist forces that continue to destroy humans […]

Excerpt: What holds us in common? How can we create common spaces, common worlds, common conversations? And what conflicts—productive or even necessary ones—might our aspirations towards a commons conceal?

Abstract:  I sit writing this from Lewes, a town that nestles by the chalky edge of the Downs in Southeast England. I have come here to spend some sabbatical leave at the University of Sussex, with colleagues and friends, historians like me. We have been working together for several years on a project called Minutes of Evidence, […]

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