A Common Claim: Community Land Ownership in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5936
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Mackenzie, Fiona
Journal:	International Journal of the Commons
Volume:	4
Page(s):	319–344
Date:	2010
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5936
Sector:	Land Tenure & Use
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	norms land tenure and use common pool resources
Abstract:	"Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be created when norms are disrupted and Foucault’s and Gibson-Graham’s work on ethics and subjectivities, this paper focuses on practices of property and nature when land in the Outer Hebrides is brought into community ownership. I argue that, while it is early to assess new political possibilities, there is sufficient evidence to show how a troubling of neoliberal norms of privatisation and enclosure through community land ownership provides a moment where a counterdiscourse is constituted. This counter narrative, centred on a collective subjectivity, opens up the possibility of more socially just and sustainable futures."

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