Co-housing has re-emerged in affluent cities as a model of dwelling that aims to reduce ecological impact and increase social welfare. Although it is the subject of growing academic interest, there are significant gaps in knowledge and a tendency toward wishful thinking about its promise that is not supported by evidence. We examine co-housing from a feminist political ecology perspective with the aim of contributing to an improved research agenda, not just on co-housing but commoning more widely. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted at co-housing projects in the Netherlands and the UK, we cast new light on how to assess the impact of sharing practices at the level of the collectivized household. Our findings support the claim that commons thinking is not really commons if it takes the work of social reproduction (caring labour) for granted or overlooks differences between people along the lines of gender, class, race/ethnicity, age and ability. We argue that greater attention to difference entails a new set of questions and criteria, and that these are necessary for assessing the extent to which co-housing projects enable the ‘inclusive commoning’ that their proponents rather wishfully envisage.

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超越一厢情愿的想法：关于共同，关怀和共同居住的希望的FPE观点

共同住房已经在富裕的城市中重新出现，作为一种旨在减少生态影响和增加社会福利的住宅模型。尽管这是学术兴趣日增的主题，但知识上仍然存在很大差距，并且倾向于对它的诺言进行一厢情愿的思考，而没有证据的支持。我们从女性主义的政治生态学角度审视共同住房，旨在为改进研究议程做出贡献，而不仅仅是在共同住房上，而且在更广泛的范围内通用。利用在荷兰和英国的共同住房项目中进行的定性现场调查，我们对如何评估集体化家庭层面上的共享做法的影响提供了新的思路。我们的研究结果支持这样一种说法，即如果公理思维被认为是理所当然的社会再生产工作（照料劳动）或忽略了人们之间在性别，阶级，种族/民族，年龄和能力等方面的差异，那么它就不是真正的公理。我们认为，对差异的更多关注需要一系列新的问题和标准，而这些对于评估共同住房项目在多大程度上能够实现其拥护者希望的“包容性共有”是必要的。