Common Tensions
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commons, settler colonialism, social practice art, decolonization, WisconsinResumé
Based in the hilly, unglaciated Driftless Area of the upper Midwest of the United States, Common/Place is a self-organized, off-the-grid platform for ecological resilience, cultural inquiry, and land-based pedagogy. The rustic setting offers a space to examine how such rural spaces have been both produced by and mobilized within the linked projects of capitalist extraction and settler colonial extermination and to connect and grow the nodes of resistance always present within such systems. Our primary project up to this point has been a series of experimental seminars assembling artists, writers, and cultural workers to learn from and with naturalists, historians, farmers, citizens of the Indigenous Ho-Chunk Nation, and the land itself. This grounded creative research and pedagogy generates a network of informal relationships that connect the urban and rural to break through the present moment of political retrenchment and set the stage for social and ecological cooperation in the face of the climate chaos to come. This practice-based, epistolary essay reflects on the first four years of Common/Place, highlighting constitutive tensions and continued negotiations around property, relationships, ecology, and time—individual, generational, and geological—that can quickly become sedimented in infrastructure and no longer open to question.
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Berlant, Lauren: “The Commons: Infrastructures for troubling times,” Environment and Planning: Society and Space, Vol. 34 No. 3, 2016, pp. 393–419.
Bhandar, Brenna: Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership, Durham, Duke University Press, 2018.
Bosworth, Kai: “‘They’re treating us like Indians!’: Political Ecologies of Property and Race in North American Pipeline Populism,” Antipode, 2018, pp. 1–21.
Brown, Nicholas and Sarah Kanouse: unpublished invitation/poster for the 2017 Kickapoo Conversation, February 2017.
Brown, Nicholas, Ryan Griffis, and Sarah Kanouse: “Blackhawk Park Is Indigenous Land (Beyond Acknowledgment),” Anthropocene Curriculum, June 3, 2020, https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution/blackhawk-park-is-indigenous-land-beyond-acknowledgment, accessed June 12, 2020.
Coulthard, Glen Sean: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Coulthard, Glen and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: “Grounded Normativity/Place-Based Solidarity,” American Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2, 2016, pp. 249–255.
Cowen, Deborah: “Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance,” Verso Blog, January 27, 2017, http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3067-infrastructures-of-empire-and-resistance, accessed December 10, 2018.
Davies, Margaret: “The Proper: Discourses of Purity,” Law and Critique, vol. 9, no. 2, 1998, pp. 147–73.
Davis, Heather and Zoe Todd: “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, vol. 16, no. 4, 2017, https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1539, accessed November 1, 2019.
Driftless Wisconsin: https://driftlesswisconsin.com/explore/kickapoo-river-valley/, accessed March 24, 2019.
Fortier, Craig: Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism, Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2017.
Federici, Silvia: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Oakland, PM Press, 2012.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena: “The Colonial Anthropocene: Damage, Remapping, and Resurgent Resources,” Antipode, March 19, 2019, https://antipodeonline.org/2019/03/19/the-colonial-anthropocene/, accessed November 1, 2019.
Grande, Sandy: “Accumulation of the primitive: the limits of liberalism and the politics of Occupy Wall Street,” Settler Colonial Studies vol. 3 no. 3–4, 2013, pp. 369–380.
Grant, Sonia A. P.: “‘Pervasive, yet Fractured’: A Roundtable on Centering Indigenous Critiques and Teaching Settler Colonialism,” Cultural Anthropology, August 20, 2019, https://culanth.org/fieldsights/pervasive-yet-fractured-centering-indigenous-critiques-a-roundtable-on-teaching-settler-colonialism, accessed November 1, 2019.
Griffis, Ryan: A Great Green Desert: Into the Pit, Chicago: Deep Time Chicago, 2018, https://zenodo.org/record/1230691#.XA3tYBNKiHo, accessed December 10, 2018.
Hampden, Jane: “Settlement at Hillsboro, WI,” Lake Effect, WUWM radio, June 11, 2009, http://www.wuwm.com/post/settlement-hillsboro-wi, accessed December 10, 2018.
Haraway, Donna: “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin,” Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, 2015, pp. 159–165.
Harris, Cheryl I.: “Whiteness as Property. Harvard Law Review, vol. 106, 1993, pp. 1707–2039.
Hoganson, Kristin: “Struggles for Place and Space: Kickapoo Traces from the Midwest to Mexico,” in Transnational Indians in the North American West, edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2015, pp. 210–225.
Jackson, Wes: Becoming Native to This Place, Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 1996.
Karuka, Manu: Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2019.
Katz, Cindi: “On the Grounds of Globalization: A Topography for Feminist Political Engagement,” Signs, vol. 26, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1213–1234.
Kling, George W. et al: “Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on our Communities and Ecosystems,” Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists and Washington, D.C.: Ecological Society of America, 2003, https://www.ucsusa.org/greatlakes/glchallengereport.html, accessed December 10, 2018.
Kauanui, J. Kehaulani: “Nothing Common about ‘The Commons’: Settler Colonialism and the Indigenous Politics of Land Dispossession,” paper presented at Brown University, Providence, RI, October 9, 2013.
Lefebvre, Henri: “Comments on a New State Form,” Antipode, vol. 33, no 5, 2001, pp. 769–782.
Lewis, Simon L. and Mark A. Maslin: The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2018.
Linebaugh, Peter: The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for all, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2008.
Macpherson, C. B.: The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962.
Massey, Doreen: For Space, London, Sage Publications, 2005.
Middleton, Beth Rose: Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation, Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2011.
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen: The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Nixon, Rob: “Navigating through the Driftless,” New York Times, September 10, 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/travel/navigating-through-the-driftless.html, accessed March 24, 2019.
Ostrom, Elinor: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1990.
Pasternak, Shiri: Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Spice, Anne: “Processing Settler Toxicities: Part I,” Footnotes, June 16, 2018, https://footnotesblog.com/2018/06/16/processing-settler-toxicities-part-i/, accessed November 1, 2019.
Stinson, Jennifer Kirsten: “Becoming Black, White, and Indian in Wisconsin Farm Country, 1850s–1910s,” Middle West Review vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 53–84.
Thompson, KT: “Core sample, or where I come from,” no date, http://k-thompson.com/research, accessed December 10, 2018.
Todd, Zoe: “Indigenizing the Anthropocene,” in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemology, edited by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin, London, Open Humanities Press, 2015, pp. 241–254.
Tuck, Eve, and Marcia McKenzie: Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods, New York, Routledge, 2015.
Yusoff, Kathryn: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
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