David Bollier
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 Free, Fair and AliveThe Insurgent Power of the Commons |
From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to ‘commoning’ to emancipate themselves from a predatory … | David Bollier | 448 | 2019 | View |
 Think Like a CommonerA Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons |
The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures – relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State. Think Like a Commoner … | David Bollier | 211 | 2014 | View |
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From IntroductionFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The point of this book is to gently dispel such prejudices and provide a short introduction to the commons. After encountering so much confusion about the commons over the years — and … | David Bollier | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In the introduction, the authors frame current modern challenges such as climate change and social inequity as issues that can be effectively addressed through a lens of the commons, which they … | David Bollier | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From Commons and CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In the first chapter, the authors argue first that large-scale cooperation is possible for humans, and that commoning, our capacity to self-organize and help each other through creation of … | David Bollier | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From The Rediscovery of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The title of this chapter, “The Rediscovery of the Commons,” has a certain ironic edge because for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the commons has never gone away. It … | David Bollier | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From The OntoShift to the CommonsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In the second chapter, the authors dig into the question of why commons have been so ignored in the modern era, despite their long history, and suggest that a new ontological perspective is … | David Bollier | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” MythFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage esources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. Over the past several … | David Bollier | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From Enclosure and the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
What happens when markets become so powerful that they disrupt natural ecosystems, reorder how people conduct their lives and claim ownership of life-forms? It is sometimes difficult to step … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From Language and the Creation of CommonsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In this chapter, the authors begin with illustrating how language shapes our views of the world, and then argue that we need new language to begin the ontological shift necessary to appreciate … | David Bollier | 40 | 2019 | $4.00 Add |
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From Enclosures of Public Spaces and InfrastructureFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The city is one of the most fiercely contested arenas for market enclosures. Public squares, parks, walkways, sports arenas and the very face and identity of a city are being taken over by a cozy … | David Bollier | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From Introduction of Part IIThe Triad of Commoning From: Free, Fair and Alive |
The introduction to the second part of the book explains that in the coming section, the authors set out to articulate a comprehensive framework, called the Triad, for commons and commoning. The … | David Bollier | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From Enclosures of Knowledge and CultureFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
Copyright and trademark law — with help from new types of “technological locks” that encrypt DVDs and ebooks — are privatizing more and more of our shared culture so that … | David Bollier | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From The Social Life of CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This chapter unpacks the first part of the Triad commons framework, the Social Life of Commoning. They propose that the socials aspects of commoning are rooted in patterns of cooperation, sharing … | David Bollier | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From Peer Governance Through CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This chapter considers the second aspect of the Triad framework, Peer Governance through Commoning. They name and describe ten dynamics of Peer Governance usually present in effective commons, … | David Bollier | 44 | 2019 | $4.40 Add |
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From The Eclipsed History of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
One of the most insidious things about enclosures is how they eradicate the culture of commons and our memory of them. The old ways of doing things; the social practices that once bound a people … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
