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Launch of new book - Deep Commons: Cultivating Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Beyond Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racism and the State.
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On July 13th 2026, the editors and authors of the new book Deep Commons celebrated publication at an online launch event.
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, hosted by the Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, in association with La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, Mississippi, USA. You can visit the conference archive here: https://www.deepcommons.net/conference-2022
You can also watch the online launch event from 13th July 2026 here: https://vimeo.com/1210121390?fl=pl&fe=sh
For more information on the book please visit: https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Deep-Commons
​Book editors:
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.
For more on this story contact:
myork@ucc.ie