Knowledge Commons

Home » Knowledge Commons

Like tidal waters carrying memories between land and sea, our Knowledge Commons holds what emerges at the frontlines and keeps it in circulation.

From resources and research to policy, the fruits from the frontlines are not extracted or enclosed, but shared, so it may travel across contexts, take new forms, and nourish other struggles.

As always, the generation of these commons depends on practices of care: stewardship that protects context and authorship, conditions that ensure access without appropriation, and frameworks that allow knowledge to move without losing its roots.

Wellbeing and care, a view from India

“To reclaim the commons is to reclaim collective wellbeing. Whether it is a water body, a community hall, or simply a street where people can gather without harassment, these spaces embody the idea that wellbeing is not private property. They remind us that joy, safety, and care are meant to be shared. Movements across the Global South have always understood this whether women gather at village wells to organize, or young people reclaim streets through music and protest.”

(published in The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine)

Recognising care-centered economies for a just transition: Perspectives from the Global Majority (Part I)

“We are heirs of that moment in the history of modernity, where paid employment was crystallized as the “real work”. Other kinds of work, like care work, became invisibilized, and if paid, poorly paid. Work directly centered on the production for the well-being of the family and community (constituting “subsistence economies“) was devalued. Feminist scholars like S. Federici, have made a superb account of this process in our modern/colonial history, which in the long run made us lose sight that these types of devalued work constitute the bedrock of our economies.“

(published in The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine)

Recognising care-centered economies for a just transition: Perspectives from the Global Majority (Part II)

“In the specific context of Eastern India, where I have been engaging with women on the cusp of this transition, one of the most generative things one can do is to create the conditions for their imagination of work to be heard not as a courtesy, but as an epistemic resource.“

(published in The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine)