The course considers histories and theories of mutualism and commons. Those who have been heir to so much harm from the last 500 years of colonizing, capitalizing, and globalizing continue to offer the most incisive critiques and potent antidotes. And they are often speaking a spatial language that inhabits the urban stage and accesses another kind of knowledge. Communities that rely on presence, proximity, and entanglement have special powers to counter dispossession, gentrification, policing, and climate catastrophes. These are the very networks of mutualism, care, maintenance, and kinship that are at the heart of Indigenous, Black, abolitionist, feminist, and anarchist thinking. This knowledge has inspired world-making forms of activism to address social and climate injustice at a planetary scale. Readings include Brenna Bhandar, Arturo Escobar, Silvia Federici, Katherine Franke, Adom Getachew, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Saidiya Hartman, Miriame Kaba, Winona La Duke, Peter Linebaugh, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Russell Rickford, Elizabeth Povinelli, AbdouMaliq Simone, Dean Spade, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Anna Tsing, and others.