In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change? Our challenge is not just articulating attractive alternatives, but identifying credible strategies for actualizing them.
Commoning: The Production of Common Worlds. Commons – Practices, boundaries and thresholds. Edited by Giacomo D’Alisa & Cristina Mattiucci. Quadernos, Explorations in Space and Society No. 30 – December 2013 Extract from the editorial by Giacomo D’Alisa and Cristina Mattiucci: “Commons is becoming an increasingly crucial topic in the political arena. On one hand, academic …
The commons – as a constellation of specific projects, a transnational network, and a discourse that makes bracing moral and political claims -- is on the rise. It can be seen in renewed interest in classical commons such as farmland, fisheries, forests and water as well as in efforts to build communities around shared digital resources and re-imagine governance of city resources as commons, among many other initiatives. Much of the focus of commons is not on the resource alone, but on the social practices and norms of working together in equitable ways for shared ends, often known as “commoning.”
Members of the Commons Institut (Germany) contribute to the debate around the Convivialist Manifesto and on Mother’s Day offer a new approach to reproduction.
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