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The common is an inherently relational concept. As Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Belknap Press, 2009) put it in Commonwealth, “we all share and participate in the common” (p. viii). The shared participation of the common flows through the “common wealth of the material world—the air, the water, the fruits of the soil, and all nature’s bounty” that we are all bound to and dependent upon (p. viii). Secondly, the common is the result of social production—of interaction and movement across social worlds—and “cohabitation in a common world” (p. viii). As I walk out of my house each day to face the world, the common serves as the field and medium for experiential and relational engagement.
This chapter would not have been possible without the help and intellectual camaraderie of Frank Margonis. Invaluable support was also graciously provided by Clayton Pierce, Graham Slater, and Greg Bourassa
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Seawright, G. (2017). Common Relationality: Antiracist Solidarity, Racial Embodiment, and the Problem of Self-Possession. In: Means, A.J., Ford, D.R., Slater, G.B. (eds) Educational Commons in Theory and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58641-4_10
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