Antonia Malchik is the author of a forthcoming book entitled ‘No Trespassing: How the ancient struggle for ownership, private property and the rights of the commons will define our future’. Antonia regularly writes online about ownership, property and what we lose in the privatization of the commons through her Substack newsletter, ‘On the Commons’.
In this episode, we trace the histories of enclosure into the current structures of ownership and privatization. Focusing primarily on the United States, Antonia raises some nuanced and refreshing insights into how enclosure relates to urban mobility, contemporary environmentalism, and democracy.
With a knack for telling stories, Antonia regularly relates issues to her own experiences, and draws on the work of a range of activists, writers, campaigners and thinkers.
This episode is a journey with many roots and branches, including a discussion on the influence of the far right in relation to land politics, always coming back to the roles of ecological values, power and ideologies.
Links
Some of the books, articles and initiatives mentioned in this episode are linked below. If you are viewing this episode on some podcast players, the links may not work: visit the original post on the Future Natures Substack.
Antonia Malchik: A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
Antonia’s article in Aeon Magazine: Who owns the Earth?
Andro Linklater: Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership
Jonathon Stalls: WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour
Rail-volution (now called Mpact Mobility)
David Harvey: The Right to the City
Henry George: Progress and Poverty
Revealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London - The Guardian
Stop Cop City in Atlanta
What is the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory?
Soulfire Farm, United States
David Bollier’s ‘Frontiers of Commoning’ podcast
Nick Estes: Our History is the Future
Laughing at extremism won’t make it go away – Antonia Malchik
Betsy Gaines Quammen: True West and American Zion
Joe Wilkins: Fall Back Down When I Die
Andreas Weber: Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
Leah Sottile: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told (Crazy Town podcast)
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
Nick Hayes: The Book of Trespass
