David Bollier

Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition (eBook, ePUB)

A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.

This completely revised and updated edition of Think Like a Commoner offers a succinct yet thorough account of the history and future of the commons.

Working outside of both market capitalism and state power, commoners are deeply committed to developing local, practical solutions, social trust, and community. From relocalized agriculture to open-source learning, diverse types of commons - ecological, social, digital, urban - are building a decentralized Commonsverse. This parallel economy is powered by the peer governance of shared wealth; respectful engagement with the Earth; participation; and fairness.

Widely respected activist and scholar David Bollier explores the full scope of the commons in contemporary life, including:

• A survey of successful commons initiatives, from shared land and water, to digital commons, mutual aid networks, alternative currencies, cohousing, and more
• The centuries-old cultural traditions, Indigenous practices, and historical folkways that gave rise to the modern commons Commons under siege - how enclosures of shared wealth through trade treaties, copyright and trademark law, commodification, privatization, and outright theft are dispossessing commoners and worsening inequality
• Understanding the commons as a profoundly relational, living social organism that itself generates value.

The Commonsverse is a dynamic, evolving socio-political space that is constantly being reimagined and rebuilt. Driven forward by worldwide networks of traditionalists and innovators working collaboratively outside of mainstream institutions, commoning constitutes a quiet revolution of real, functional alternatives. Pull up a chair, relax, and let's talk about the commons.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771424004
• Artikelnr.: 72253163

Autorenporträt

David Bollier is an American activist and scholar who studies the commons as a new paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He has been Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (USA) since 2016, and frequently collaborates with an international network of brilliant irregulars. He blogs at Bollier.org, hosts the podcast Frontiers of Commoning, and has written ten books on the commons, including The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking, Patterns of Commoning, The Wealth of the Commons, and, with Silke Helfrich, Free, Fair and Alive. Bollier lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

   Preface to the Second Edition
   Introduction
   1. The Rediscovery of the Commons
PART I. ENCLOSURE, DISPOSSESSION, AND THE ECLIPSE OF COMMONING
   2. The Tyranny of the "Tragedy" Myth
   3. Enclosures of Nature
            The Massive International Land Grab
            The Privatization of Water
            The Corporatization of Food
   4. All That Is Shared Becomes a Market Commodity
            The Marketization of Universities and Their Research
            Enclosures of Infrastructure
            Enclosures of Civic Infrastructure
            The Many Costs of Enclosure
Part II. Commons as Living, Generative Systems
   5. Many Galaxies of Commons
            Subsistence Commons
            Indigenous Peoples' Commons
            Mutual Aid and Gift Economies
           Alternative Local Currencies
           Cooperatives
   6. The Eclipsed History of the Commons
           What Evolutionary Sciences Tell Us About Cooperation
           The Forgotten Legal History of the Commons
           The Liberal State and the Eclipse of Vernacular Law
   7. The Commons as a Relational Organism
           The Metaphysics of the Commons Is Relational
   8. Local, Vernacular, and Alive
           Commoning Our Way to a Land Ethic
           Vernacular Culture and the Commons
           A New Vision of Local Development
           Urban Commons .
   9. Digital Rebels in the Big Tech Imperium
           It All Began with Free Software
           Creative Commons: A License to Share
           The Open-Access Publishing Revolution
           Cosmolocal Production, DAOs, and Commons Infrastructures
PART II. COMMONS AS LIVING, GENERATIVE SYSTEMS
   10. Relationalized Property and Finance
           The Inalienable Rights of Commoners
           John Locke's Theories About Property Rights
           The Measure of Wealth
           Relationalized Property
           Relationalized Finance
   11. Reimagining State Power
           State Power and Commons Are Different Orders of Life
           Commoning and International Law
           State Trustee Commons
           Legal Hacks on Western Jurisprudence
           Commons/Public Partnerships
Conclusion: The Future of the Commons
   The Commons as Gift and Duty
Tools for Exploring the Commonsverse
   The Commons, Short and Sweet
  The Triad of Commoning: Social Life, Peer Governance, and Provisioning
  The Logic of the Commons and the Market
  Further Reading
  Websites Engaged with Commons and Commoning
  Acknowledgments
  Index
  About the Author
  About New Society Publishers