Members’ class and racial identities shape how communities do commoning.

Evidence

Another example of the way subjectivities shape visions considers the importance of identities. Identities and subjectivities are closely related, as subject formation and presentation are the result of social position (Skeggs, 2005; Nightingale, 2019, 2011). Members’ identities are likely to affect their subjectivities and consequently their commoning style. An example of this is the social profile of cohousing communities in the UK, where membership is predominantly White, well-educated, progressive middleclass (Arbell, 2021b). Members’ identities shaped the sector’s vision and practice according to their habitus, needs and values. This included the use of consensus decisionmaking and direct participation using professional styles and language; emphasis on sustainability; and a counter cultural way of being. These practices were culturally coded as White and middle-class, and came naturally for those with “alternative capital” (Jones, 2016; Arbell, 2021b). — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 57

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that participatory practices are ‘culturally coded as White and middle-class’ relates to the reader’s interest in class/identity signaling in moral panics (the immodesty article), where dress codes likewise do class/identity work. Also echoes habitus reasoning in Bourdieu. — connects to: Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 1; Commoning should be analysed through internal and external dynamics among subjectivities, visions and practices. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 6; Becoming a commoner, visions, and social practices shape each other cyclically — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 38 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 57

Related

• Commoning should be analysed through internal and external dynamics among subjectivities, visions and practices. (similarity 0.84)
• Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects. (similarity 0.84)
• Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. (similarity 0.83)
• Becoming a commoner, visions, and social practices shape each other cyclically (similarity 0.83)
• Generational political subjectivities shape how members practice commoning in housing cooperatives. (similarity 0.83)
• Commoning simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its practitioners (similarity 0.82)
• Commoning communities vary with context and adapt over time. (similarity 0.82)
• Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. (similarity 0.81)
• Commoner subjectivities emerge historically through practice rather than being fixed identities. (similarity 0.81)
• Commoning transforms participants’ identities even as it embeds practices of power and difference (similarity 0.81)
• Habitus derives from group membership as much as from class (similarity 0.80)
• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Commoning transforms participants’ identities even as it embeds practices of power and difference #expands (0.80) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 15
• Race and class are interdependent formations, each lived through the other #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1113
• Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. #expands (0.80) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 70
• Shared identity underpins commoner formation and collective action. #complicates (0.75) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 133
• Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects. #corroborates (0.75) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 94
• Cultural commonality raises trust and thus the likelihood of bandwagoning #complicates (0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 637