Commoning for urban wellbeing in Majority and Minority Worlds

Kelly Dombroski, S. M. Waliuzzaman, David Conradson, Gradon Diprose, Stephen Healy

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Abstract

Urban wellbeing is an issue of global importance, as urban populations expand to incorporate more than 50 percent of the global population. Key urban challenges include crowded informal settlements in the Majority World (the Global ‘South’) and isolation and inequality in the Minority World (the Global ‘North’). This chapter explores the potential of commoning to support and enhance urban wellbeing, through a consideration of two case studies: Kallyanpur Slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and an inner city urban farm in Christchurch, New Zealand. We suggest that commoning approaches evident in both cities have contributed to the wellbeing of their urban residents. We identify two key insights that commoning for urban wellbeing can provide: firstly, that wellbeing is a collective endeavour and, secondly, that the ‘commons’ of wellbeing extends beyond those directly involved in commoning activities to include other human and ‘more-than-human’ communities.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWellbeing: Global Policies and Perspectives: Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand and Beyond
EditorsAnnelies Kamp, Cheryl Brown, Trish McMenamin, Veronica O'Toole
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherPeter Lang
Pages225-241
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781800794672
ISBN (Print)9781800794542
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023

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