Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.1215/08879982-6817901
J. Cumberland
O ur economy has left deep scars in cities. As globalization has advanced, cities have become sites of acute oppression. The global free market has made soul-searing, societyrending levels of inequality, racism, pollution, and social isolation the daily lived experience of billions of city dwellers. Governments often exacerbate this oppression by seeking out global investors who, like parasites, extract resources from cities without giving anything in return. Both the free market and the state are failing city residents. This weighty oppression in cities has led many residents to seek community by emphasizing differences. As German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas theorized, systems of advanced capitalism tear apart social relations. People respond to these systems by forming groups based upon differences, rather than commonalities with others. They marginally differentiate themselves based on gender, age, skin color, neighborhood, or religious affiliation. This form of community building expresses a longing for solidarity while precluding the possibility of broadbased solidarity. These conditions now extend to the majority of the world’s population. For the first time in world history, the majority of people live in cities. In 1950, only 30% of the world population lived in cities. That number has steadily and rapidly risen across the last half decade. Today, more than 50% of people live in cities. As populations migrate to cities, cities become more oppressive, and responses to oppression tend to preclude solidarity. However, it is heartening to find people in cities across the world also building a new economy based on sharing. This is a personal solution based on collective power. It counters an old impersonal economy that individualizes social relations and alienates people. Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons, a new book by a nonprofit called Shareable, brings to light efforts by groups in cities across the world to instantiate this new economy. This article is largely an adaptation of Sharing Cities. It argues that it is imperative for resilient new city economies to be based upon a political economy distinct from that of capitalism and neoliberalism. This is a commonsbased political economy, where the commons is a way communities work together to manage and obtain resources as opposed to receiving resources via the free market or from the state. The commons is a viable postcapitalist way forward.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.1215/08879982-6817985
R. Lerner
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Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.1215/08879982-6817937
J. Casey, Cristina Moon
U nabashed white supremacy, rising nationalism, and creeping fascism. Russian hacking and fake news. The manipulability of the attention economy. The threat of nuclear war. All of these are reasons to believe that democracy is under global threat. But is it? Yes, what we call “Big D” Democracy—i.e. the institutions of our representative democratic systems—is genuinely threatened by vote tampering, voter suppression, election rigging, propaganda, incitement, and violence. As a result, these times feel full of doubt and unease. However, this moment is also full of potential. It’s ripe with lessons on how to design a true rule of the people, by the people. We have the chance, right now, to craft “small d” democracy that extends far beyond our limited institutions of representative government. We have the chance to live democracy—not just live in one. It is precisely because of our collective anxiety that we have this opportunity. The turbulence and groundlessness we have been experiencing in 2017 and 2018 have already jolted many of us awake. Beyond mindfulness and the pursuit of inner peace is a call to spiritual warriorship that many of us are hearing. Embodying democracy is one way to respond to that call. If you’ve been hearing the call as we have, you may resonate with our assertion that it’s time to make the worlds we inhabit mini laboratories for democracy, consent, and equity. The communities in which we live, the groups with which we dialogue and work, our oneonone interactions, and even the internal, somatic experience of our own bodies and inner wisdom are all fertile ground for growing a new world. The seeds we suggest planting hold the deliberate and mindful practice of lived, “small d” democracy. Through cultivating “small d” democracy, we can build the larger systems of democracy that we wish to live in. We can open up possibilities we hitherto thought were impossible, or would never have even thought of. Below are some practices that can be used individually and in groups, and which can constitute a collective exercise of radical individual and interpersonal leadership. They are fundamental and go to the root. It is likely that they will also be uncomfortable. They will challenge you to understand democracy in a whole new way—a way that depends on you. When you’re depended on, you can’t shirk responsibility or fall asleep. Embodying democracy means being awake and actively engaged throughout your life, and in two critical ways. Democracy is commonly defined as a system of governance, but it is fundamentally a way that individuals choose to share power in relationship to one another. It requires compromise when there is disagreement. To know how to arrive at agreeable compromise requires that the individuals involved practice: (1) agency to advocate for our own positions within a social structure or relationship and (2) consent as to how we will pursue shared, intended outcomes, horizons, and visions—as well as how to negotiate compro
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Pub Date : 2018-05-11DOI: 10.1215/08879982-4354462
Phoenix Soleil, Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Pub Date : 2018-05-11DOI: 10.1215/08879982-4354534
Olga Gershenson
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Pub Date : 2018-05-11DOI: 10.1215/08879982-4354378
A. Caplin
The Jewish soul walks into a synagogue, finds the sanctuary and sits down among the musty pews, picks up a siddur and pretends to read Hebrew. It’s looking for something to feel holy, what it knows is inside, but wanting to suck the outside in to feel real. But there is nothing to suck in except the closet smell of dead grandparents. There are no real grandfathers anymore. There are no real grandmothers anymore. The soul looks around for someone to be with. Everyone is either a busy rabbi or a busy rabbi’s receptionist. The soul is not sure what they are so busy about. The soul wants to shove the letters of Torah into its trembling mouth, ride a roller coaster on Mount Sinai, argue the Occupation with Moses, and have a schnaps with the Ba’al Shem Tov, whose faint humming echoes in the buzz of the Eternal Light bulb. The soul remembers when it belonged, how the key of A minor unlocked its heart and fed it stuffed cabbage. When “Tumbalalaika” and a campfire meant family.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-11DOI: 10.1215/08879982-4354474
B. Case
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Pub Date : 2018-05-11DOI: 10.1215/08879982-4354390
Phil Wolfson
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