Political Economy
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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 |
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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 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 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 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 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 Provisioning Through CommonsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This chapter is about the ten key patterns of production or provisioning in the Triad framework of the commons. They also explain the underlying goals of provisioning in a commons-oriented world … | David Bollier | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From Introduction to Part IIIGrowing the Commonsverse From: Free, Fair and Alive |
This introduction to the third part takes stock of what the book has covered so far, and indicates that the third part will deal with the issue of how commons fit into the context of larger … | David Bollier | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From Rethinking PropertyFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
The seventh chapter examines the relationship between property law and ideas of ownership and commons, and finds them to be largely incompatible. The authors propose ways to rethink property and … | David Bollier | 29 | 2019 | $2.90 Add |
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From Relationalize PropertyFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Chapter eight explores pathways to relationalize property, beginning with a case study of a food cooperative store. They then make the case for relationalizing property. There are case studies … | David Bollier | 45 | 2019 | $4.50 Add |
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From State Power and CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Chapter nine considers how commoning would progress if it were supported by the state in the form of governance and provisioning, and anticipates the challenges of doing so. It clarifies the … | David Bollier | 34 | 2019 | $3.40 Add |
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From Take Commoning to ScaleFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
The final chapter addresses how commons can be scaled up, and why it is important to believe that commons have a significant contribution to make toward global change. The authors introduce the … | David Bollier | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From AcknowledgmentsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Acknowledgments | David Bollier | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From Appendix ANotes on the Methodology for Identifying Patterns of Commoning From: Free, Fair and Alive |
This appendix details how the authors came to see the patterns in commons and more about the pattern language observation process generally. They share interview questions about behaviours in … | David Bollier | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
