Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse
| Autor: | David Bollier |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
| Předmět: |
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political economy internet liberalism bureaucracy public administration free market economics open source software governance cooperation barcelona urban commons commonsverse vernacular practice custom communing capitalism value relationality ontology symbiosi commons/public partnerships legal hacks finance rights of nature relationalized finance care Political institutions and public administration (General) JF20-2112 |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of the Commons, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 288–301-288–301 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1875-0281 |
| DOI: | 10.5334/ijc.1389 |
| Popis: | Over the past two decades, hundreds of different commons around the world have arisen and developed working ties with peers, creating what might be called the Commonsverse. To elected officials, legislatures, bureaucracies, courts, and business people, the commons continues to be seen as a failed management regime, one that implicitly needs state or market intervention and control. As the essays of this special issue suggest, however, many projects and activists are seeing commons as a powerful, versatile force for change. The piecemeal efforts to build a Commonsverse amounts to a quest to build a parallel polis. Commoning honors wholesome values and different ways of being, knowing, and acting while allowing ordinary people to assert some measure of self-determination in the face of capitalist markets and state power. This essay explores a broad range of contemporary commons activities, the “ontological politics” they are engendering, and the challenges they face in expanding and institutionalizing commoning. Future development should focus on the potential of commons/public partnerships, new infrastructures to make commoning easier, legal hacks to open up zones of commoning, the potential of relationalized finance, and new institutional structures of care. |
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