Stephen Healy

Western Sydney University, Institute for Culture and Society, Faculty Member

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Stephen Healy is a Senior Research Fellow at ICS. Since completing his doctorate in Geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst his research has concentrated on the relationship between economy, subjectivity and the enactment of new econo-socialities exploring various topics: health care reform policy, the role of cooperatives in regional development, and the solidarity economy movement. In each instance his abiding concern has been to apply insights from Marxian and psychoanalytic theory to understand the desires, fantasies and anxieties that compose the restive human subject. His current collaborative research focuses on assessing the impact and significance of the solidarity economy in three US cities with support from the National Science Foundation (BCS 1340030). The US solidarity economy movement, in its nascent stage, is linked with other efforts throughout the world to enact economies directed by an ethical commitment to cooperation and inclusivity. Stephen is a founding member of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN), a steering committee member for the Relational Poverty Network, and an editorial associate for Rethinking Marxism. (See the Community Economies website for further information and links to pre-publication pdfs).

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Cultivating commoners: Infrastructures and subjectivities for a postcapitalist counter-city

by Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy, and Gradon Diprose

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In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our r... more In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, including the land and garden and its many species and ecological systems, the food system more generally, the wider community and their co-workers. Such transformations were both individual and collective, having more in common with the collective caring subject homines curans than the autonomous, rational workready subject of homo economicus. Using postcapitalist theory on commons, commoning and subjectivity, we argue that these socio-affective encounters with more-than-human commons enabled collective, caring commoner subjectivities to emerge and to be cultivated through collective care in place. We suggest that the commons can be thought of as an infrastructure of care for the counter-city, providing the conditions for the emergence and cultivation of collective caring urban subjects.

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