Macro political shifts reshape how commoners understand their needs and practices
Evidence
These examples of identities and subjectivities are inseparable from wider contexts. The changing political context shaped members’ subjectivities and the commoning possibilities that were open or desirable to them. Over the years, society became more individualistic, and this was reflected in members’ subjectivities and commoning styles, shifting for examples from shared gardens and low fences to private gardens and higher fences. … As the generous state grants of the 1970s were long gone, members were more inclined to seek entrepreneurial ways to secure the cooperative’s income, opening up avenues for new entrepreneurial subjectivities. Negotiating these societal changes and tensions shapes the way commoners make sense of their needs and aspirations – namely, their (often diverse) subjectivities. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 59
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the ‘Grafting & Growth’ ADDENDUM theme only loosely; closer parallel is theories of governmentality and subject formation (Foucault), and Bourdieu’s habitus as developed in paragraph 60. — connects to: Generational political subjectivities shape how members practice commoning in housing cooperatives. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 51; Politics operates through the cultural meanings people use to make sense of their lives — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 160; Culture operates as a constitutive force in politics and social change — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 159 (+1 more)
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 59
Related
- Generational political subjectivities shape how members practice commoning in housing cooperatives. (similarity 0.87)
- Communal housing visions shift from maximalist to minimalist across generations and wider societal change. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Politics operates through the cultural meanings people use to make sense of their lives
#expands(0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 160 - Culture operates as a constitutive force in politics and social change
#expands(0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 159 - Total systems change, and human agency’s effects often subvert its intentions
#qualifies(0.80) - Generational political subjectivities shape how members practice commoning in housing cooperatives.
#contradicts(0.75) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 51