Publication
Deep Commons:
Cultivating Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Beyond Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racism & the State
Edited by Matt York & Marina Sitrin
Recent years have witnessed an organized global backlash of authoritarian politics with a resurgence of xenophobic nationalisms, colonialism, racism, anti-feminist movements, climate denialism, and the purposeful undermining of existing democratic systems. In response, Deep Commons invites us to instead cultivate radically different political communities of solidarity and care. Linking ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist, Indigenous, and animal liberation politics intersectionally,
activists and scholars from the growing Deep Commons community, representing a diversity of positions between the core and periphery of empire, share concrete examples and grassroots lived experiences of these liberatory psycho-socio-material relations. The book therefore focuses through one key question: How do we do it? How do we cultivate ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and the state?
This publication can be traced back to the Deep Commons conference 2022, in which the majority of contributors participated.
Matt York is Postdoctoral Researcher in Collective Social Futures at University College Cork, Ireland. He is author of Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons. Marina Sitrin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and We Make Our Own Justice: Global Alternatives to Policing and Prisons.
Review
"We carry a new world here in our hearts, to borrow from Spanish anarchist revolutionary Buenaventura Durutti. In this wonderful collection Matt York and Marina Sitrin have brought together stories, deep from the heart, that illustrate the care, the love, the solidarity from which we are creating this new world, these new worlds, here and now."
David Harvie, coauthor of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities.
You can now purchase a hardback copy of the book via Suny Press
A more affordable paperback version will be available in early 2027