The paper reflects on the static dichotomy between war and peace through the lens of urban commons. We start from our embodied experience as researchers and commoners in Naples, investigating commons as eventual practices of nonviolent conflict. Particularly, we use a transfeminist approach to analyze if and in which conditions they are actually immune to war and inequalities.

Our assumptions are grounded in Post-Marxist lesson and concern war as the everyday product of scarce resources and rights. It is artificially constructed by means of a specific distributive rationality based on the enclosure of commons, as well as the racial and patriarchal dispossession of bodies. The result is an economic and ideological model that determines forms of competition and conflict, sometimes violent, to which correspond policies of social pacification, silencing and invisibilization of subaltern subjects in urban contexts. Moreover, Marxist feminism provides us the categories to investigate war and its extractive and appropriative modes in relation to the appropriation of commons. This literature also centers the reorganization of war in domestic and private space, on and through women's bodies.

Across Europe, millions of us face skyrocketing rents and closures of vital public spaces. The fightback against developers protecting their profit margins can seem hopeless. Against this backdrop, participants from Rome, Berlin and Marseille’s housing movements and Neapolitan commoners joined forces to host an online skillshare session on creative use of law in reclaiming public spaces and re-socialising housing. Legal expert-activists moderated the group discussions and presented about their work.

Il laboratorio propone un'elaborazione collettiva delle esperienze di cura in rapporto agli spazi in cui queste hanno avuto letteralmente luogo.  Ne risulta una mappatura degli effetti trasformativi della cura tanto a livello dei legami di prossimità e comunità quanto dei rapporti tra progetti culturali dal basso e istituzioni politico-culturali.