This talk considers the history of “commoning” as a way in which generations of people around the world and right here in Maine have resisted private property, settler colonialism, and enclosure by moving more lightly across places, from swamps and forests to urban edges and oceans. Can sharing energy, food, and transport help us achieve more ethical relations of trans-species climate justice?

Mimi Sheller is an internationally recognized scholar in mobility studies—movement and migration, Caribbean studies, climate adaptation, and the politics of mobility. She is the Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a part-time Brooksville neighbor.

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