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"The Village Green Preservation Society" : The Kinks, the Bake Off, and the Performativity of the Commons

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Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Winter. 2024, 31(1), S. 41-58. ISSN 0944-9094. eISSN 2751-9732. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.33675/jsbc/2024/1/6

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The commons have occupied, in the landscape of the mind, a dual position between the wistful vision of countryside living anchored in the public imagination as a nostalgic remnant of past communal life, and a potentially revolutionary space of resistance against capital power relations and homogenisation; a place of non-utilitarian living and relational politics. This article takes its cue from The Kinks’ 1968 song “The Village Green Preservation Society”, which oscillates between sentimental celebration and playful parody of local conservation societies. A cover version served as the theme for the BBC sitcom Jam & Jerusalem (2006-2009), centred on the Women’s Guild in a fictional Devon village, celebrating rural life. Similarly, the idealisation of pastoral communities in the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony mirrors the image promoted by the popular competitive baking show The Great British Bake Off (2010-), portraying a utopian little Britain at a country fair. In economically bleak times, the programme not only satisfies a longing for domestic comforts but also for a commons collectively reclaimed and sustained. Based on Svetlana Boym’s understanding of nostalgia as an idealisation of the past and investment in a utopian future, and drawing on commons theory by scholars like Elinor Ostrom and George Caffintzis, this article examines mediatised examples of romanticised commoning. It explores how neoliberal conceptual markers inform the performativity of the commons and how these media representations align with a reactionary national fantasy of British identity, depicting the commons and voluntary service as the binding force uniting the British people.

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ISO 690BOLL, Julia, 2024. "The Village Green Preservation Society" : The Kinks, the Bake Off, and the Performativity of the Commons. In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Winter. 2024, 31(1), S. 41-58. ISSN 0944-9094. eISSN 2751-9732. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.33675/jsbc/2024/1/6
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