Marginalized community, space of commons and autonomy: The case of the Deccan Development Society in South India

- Disconnection of the marginalized community from its local food system motivates the community for resistance.
- Community Seed Banks (CSBs) stimulate an empowering normative subjectivity among its participants.
- Seed exchanges through CSBs create possibilities for the creation of a space of commons.
- Common resource management acts as a cultural system for the marginalized community to re-establish its local food culture.
- CSBs provide for the commonisation of the seeds and re-commoning of that which had been enclosed.