Formal CLH membership does not guarantee participation in subjectivity-forming commoning.

Evidence

Importantly, this dynamic was still present amongst members after joining; the formal act of becoming a member does not guarantee full engagement in the practice and thereby a full opportunity to foster a commoners’ subjectivity. Members may choose to disengage due to lack of confidence or difficulties to participate in highly professional decision-making. One non-participating member of Community 1 felt she did not have the skills to participate meaningfully, and referred to the co-operative as “they” throughout her interview, suggesting that key members were the soul of the project. Other members did not participate for other reasons, like bullying or a sense of being out of the clique that “ran the show” (Arbell 2021a). Internal tensions and power imbalance meant that some members could not engage in the practice that was necessary to form their commoners’ subjectivity. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 89

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Extends my sacrifice/grief lens: it shows how inclusive solidaristic projects recreate the very hierarchies they purport to transcend — a parallel dynamic to how ritual sacrifice stabilises stratified societies.
• XREF: The member calling the co-op ‘they’ evokes the inside/outsider alienation theme in works like A Visit From The Goon Squad and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. — connects to: Communal philosophy need not imply unanimous belief among members; Knowing one belongs to a group does not equal valuing that membership — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 425; Collaborators’ mutual agreement cannot be assumed even when stated or co-authored (+1 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 89

Broader Connections

• Knowing one belongs to a group does not equal valuing that membership #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 425
• Communal philosophy need not imply unanimous belief among members #qualifies (0.75)
• Collaborators’ mutual agreement cannot be assumed even when stated or co-authored #complicates (0.72)
• Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335