Common Border01–08–21
With Fionn Byrne, Jiahui Huang
Onsite Review Issue 38: Borders, Lines, Breaches
This article revisits the eighteenth-century enclosures, which privatized common land, displaced rural populations, and restructured political and spatial orders. It proposes an alternative model of land organization: a concealed, shared corridor embedded within thickened property lines. Resisting the logic of extraction, this space functions as a site of autonomy and collective use. By reconfiguring the margins of private property, the article reconsiders the historical commons and their relevance to contemporary struggles over land and enclosure.
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