The Enduring Appeal of the Commons

Commons are popping up everywhere—internet sites, professional platforms, neighborhood networks, seed banks, time banks, land trusts—everyone wants to be part of one. This essay embraces the argument that good things can come from commoning. But it questions the notion that commons are the key to re...

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Published inThe Arizona quarterly Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 1 - 21
Main Author Nelson, Dana D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tucson Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2019
Subjects
Bollier, David
Capitalism
Collaboration
Collective action
Democracy
Globalization
Hotels & motels
Internet
Liberalism
Neoliberalism
Political activism
Privatization
Ride sharing services
Society
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Chicago Illinois
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Summary:Commons are popping up everywhere—internet sites, professional platforms, neighborhood networks, seed banks, time banks, land trusts—everyone wants to be part of one. This essay embraces the argument that good things can come from commoning. But it questions the notion that commons are the key to redeeming all that ails us under the regime of modern capital. It studies some misleading elements of that redemptive framing before mapping out some corrective lessons offered by the history of actually existing civic and natural resource commons schemes, lessons that concern practice, method and theory.
ISSN:0004-1610
1558-9595
1558-9595
DOI:10.1353/arq.2019.0009