Rethinking life-in-common in the Australian landscape

Wendy Harcourt

This commentary reflects on the shifts in my personal and political lifeworld across time and space by sharing a story of changing awareness about ‘life-in-common’ in the Australian landscape; a landscape that is marked by historical, ecological and resource struggle and injustice. My commentary takes up the rethinking of differential belonging and ‘life-in-common’ as part of the search for alternatives to capitalism and a way to overcome socioecological crises which pays attention to the deep connections of nature and culture. I reflect on life-in-common as an Australian white settler feminist political ecologist wishing to understand how to address the erasures and violence that mark the Australian landscape.

Suggested citation

Harcourt, Wendy. 2021. “Rethinking Life-in-Common in the Australian Landscape.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4 (4): 1330–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848621989602.